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You'll lead a team of Campaign Sales Coordinators, ensuring airtime campaigns are planned, booked and delivered accurately while providing an excellent experience for clients and agencies.
Our Team: How we enrich everyday life
The Airtime Planning team sits within Bauer's Commercial function and plays a key role in delivering advertising campaigns across our audio portfolio. Working closely with Sales, Finance and Commercial Operations, we help maximise revenue while delivering outstanding service to agencies and clients.
The Difference You Will Make
You'll lead and develop a high-performing team, oversee the successful delivery of campaigns, manage planning challenges, and help protect revenue. Through strong stakeholder relationships and continuous improvement, you'll support Bauer's reputation as a trusted advertising partner.
Your Role
- Lead, coach and support a team of Campaign Sales Coordinators
- Oversee the planning, booking and delivery of airtime campaigns
- Resolve complex planning queries and escalations
- Monitor campaign accuracy, reporting and revenue tracking
- Manage team workload and ensure client deadlines are met
- Work closely with Sales, Finance and Operations to deliver campaigns successfully
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, systems and ways of working.
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The Skills You Will Bring
- Experience in campaign planning, media operations, advertising or commercial support
- Previous people management or coaching experience
- Strong organisational, problem-solving and prioritisation skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Commercial awareness and attention to detail
- Confidence using data, technology and AI-enabled tools to improve performance.
Working Pattern/Location:
This is a hybrid role, combining office and home working, with collaboration across multiple commercial teams.
About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
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What’s In It For You
- You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use
- Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay
- You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here.
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