Your Team : The Strategic Development team is responsible for growing and diversifying both commercial and customer revenue streams through evolving and enhancing our products and processes, always leading with data and insight. This team acts as a centralised resource responsible for assimilating, and responding, to the needs of our customer and internal teams. The team delivers strategic support across the business by offering depth of expertise in areas of strategic focus and delivering innovative new revenue streams. This role will report directly into the Strategic Development Director and will be vital in delivering growth across The Sun.
Responsibilities
- Drive and lead new opportunities for The Sun, growing customer and commercial revenue through strategic partnerships
- Conduct research to identify new market opportunities and translate them into well-defined and executed strategies
- Programme management of strategic initiatives across the commercial and customer functions, ensuring that each of the various teams are working effectively together and delivering their strategic objectives
- Discover and cultivate partnership opportunities and manage existing partnerships to drive growth for The Sun
- Manage multiple prospects, bids and proposals, building a pipeline of opportunities
- Manage the RFP process for new potential partners and negotiate and agree contracts ensuring all agreements are financially profitable and data compliant.
- Lead opportunity modelling for new target markets for The Sun to grow commercial and customer revenue streams.
We are News UK
One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.