Business Partnership Executive

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Partnership Executive to join our team, working with exciting titles, such as the Manchester Evening News, Leicester Mercury, Liverpool Echo and more. This unique role is an exciting opportunity for individuals with a solid background in a customer facing/account management role.

As a Business Partnership Executive you will be working closely with both the commercial and editorial teams. It will be your responsibility to provide and assist the audience development ambitions of the daily news brands within Reach. You will actively be looking to secure new, cost effective business partnerships across the designated region to drive newspaper sales and to build relationships with clients.

The successful candidate can be based in any of our UK offices around Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham or Leicester. The successful candidate will be required to travel between these locations.

We are Reach because it's what we do.

Every day our newsbrands - national and regional, in print and online - reach millions of people up and down the country. We are the UK's largest news publisher, with influential national newsbrands such as the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Sunday People, Daily Record, and more than 100 distinguished regional titles.

Our brands have a long heritage of being trusted sources of news and information, with our editorial conviction and high standards of journalism providing audiences with timely information and opinion across multiple platforms.

Last year we sold 620 million newspapers, with 5 million readers of one of our brands each month. Our network of over 70 websites provide 24/7 coverage of news, sport and showbiz stories, with 8 billion page views per year.

We average 21 million mobile visitors - that's 60% of the entire mobile market. Each month we attract over 32 million unique visitors. That's more than our competitors. You will help us further increase our digital audience into 2019.

• Identify potential new Business Partnerships, with input from the Commercial team, to maximise revenues
• Develop and deliver the strategic plan designed to maximise performance, within resource budget and achieve against sales/revenue targets
• Increase the business partnership base through effective call management
• Secure new business partnerships across the designated region
• Managing client accounts, keeping in regular contact and making any relevant adjustments.
• Ensure that all activity and expenditure is assessed in terms of profitability
• Liaise with Editor and editorial team regarding sponsorship of selected platform over the course of the partnership
• Identify and develop persuasive business partnership campaigns in line with clients business goals
• Responsible for all potential business as directed with the exclusion of existing main advertising clients
• Complete regular customer service calls to existing Business Partnerships
• Monitor editorial and social media opportunities to ensure clients receive full requirement over the course of the partnership

This opportunity is best suited for a driven and determined individual with a strong background of driving business revenue and delivering objectives. You will be comfortable working independently out in the field and eager to offer initiative and develop new ideas to drive change. You will thrive from a challenge and have the ability to solve problems with a positive, can-do attitude. You will also need a proven track record:

• Working within a commercial environment
• Generating and implementing effective, creative multi-channel campaigns
• Building positive relationships at all levels within a complex organisation and to external businesses through partnerships for the benefit of both parties

A driving licence is essential to enable you to travel as part of your role.

In addition to competitive salaries, 25 days holiday, bonus structures (if applicable) and a contributory pension scheme, Reach plc have a wealth of flexible benefits on offer. These include holiday purchase up to ten days per year, childcare vouchers, cycle scheme, a technology scheme in conjunction with Curry's PC World, car scheme, health cash plan, employee loans and lots of high street discounts! Our business is fully committed to health and wellbeing in the workplace with an employee assistance programme and trained mental health first aiders across the business.

We are committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process. We will be reviewing applications as they are received so please don't delay in submitting your application. Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the application deadline/closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.