Your team: The Merchandising team sits within Times Holidays, which is a division of the Commercial Travel department, based in London Bridge. The travel team is responsible for driving revenues through advertising and also selling holidays to News UK audiences via partnerships and its in-house travel agency; Times Holidays.

Your role: As the Merchandising and Campaign Manager, you will take ownership of the digital storefront for Times Holidays website and the CMS management and workflows relating to both product placement, link integration into Times Travel editorial content, and the holiday web page creations and user experience (UX), along with the analysis and next best steps based on the engagement and performance metrics across The Times Holidays website. 

Reporting directly to the Head of Partnerships, you will have two Merchandising Executive direct reports, and will together manage how travel products, curated itineraries, and partner deals are visually presented, structured, and cross-merchandised on-site to maximise customer engagement, dwell time, and booking revenue from The Times audiences.

Day to day you will:

• Own and continually optimise the homepage, landing pages, category hubs, and trip cards to ensure maximum visual impact, intuitive navigation, and smooth user flow. 

• Collaborate with the Holidays Product team to ingest curated itineraries and translate them into highly engaging, actionable online assets on the Times Holidays homepage.

• Drive the overarching merchandising strategy to actively hit and exceed quarterly eCommerce revenue targets, conversion metrics, and shared team KPIs.

• Publish curated content into the CMS, ensuring strict compliance with The Times style guide, overseeing tracking URL generation, and maintaining active affiliate link integrity.

• Analyse traffic data, booking insights, and partner activity to compile performance updates, while maintaining financial administration for correct partner billing.

• Partner with internal teams to align on-site merchandising, banners, and promotional landing pages with broader multi-channel travel campaigns executed by the marketing team.

What we're looking for from you:

• An understanding of the online travel sector, including domestic and international trends, as well as specific categories like cruise, touring, and tailor-made itineraries.

• Proven experience managing marketing campaigns, briefing creative design teams, and optimising consumer-facing communications.

• Strong commercial acumen with experience in revenue tracking, forecasting, and analysing commercial contract metrics.

• Advanced technical proficiency in CMS management (such as WordPress), Google Workspace, and workflow platforms to efficiently oversee digital content publishing.

• Meticulous attention to detail and strong time management, enabling you to effectively spot errors, uphold quality control, and ensure deadlines are met across the team.

• A collaborative and adaptable mindset, allowing you to thrive in a fast-paced trading environment and navigate a flat team structure seamlessly.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop. 

News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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