Client Director

Your team: Join our Commercial Travel team, a dedicated group focused on managing key client relationships and driving the digital transformation of our travel offerings. We collaborate closely to translate strategic business goals into effective campaign deliveries that boost revenue and retain essential accounts. Your role: You will manage and grow partnerships with key clients, transforming strategic goals into impactful media campaigns. This is an exciting opportunity to launch a new retail media revenue stream, spearhead digital transformation, and elevate your profile as an industry expert across the global media landscape. Day to day you will:

• Lead strategic account planning by partnering with senior stakeholders to translate complex client challenges into actionable media solutions.
• Pitch new business and identify incremental growth opportunities, fostering collaboration with global offices to expand our worldwide reach.
• Manage budget setting, forecasting, and contract administration to ensure commercial targets and revenue goals are consistently met.
• Mentor, guide, and inspire Partnership Managers and Agency Sales colleagues to deliver outstanding client propositions.
• Drive the digital transformation of our travel offering, focusing on continuous innovation and aligning new opportunities with client objectives.
• Provide proactive updates on marketplace insights and emerging media innovations to open new avenues within the travel sector.
  
  Experience managing complex client relationships and building lasting partnerships within the media or travel sectors.
• Experience developing long-term, audience-led media strategies that solve ambiguous business challenges.
• Communicate clearly and empathetically to effectively mentor a team, setting clear expectations and inspiring them to achieve the highest professional standards.
• Demonstrate strong analytical thinking when forecasting budgets and reviewing commercial targets to ensure sustained revenue growth.
• Adapt quickly to emerging digital innovations, allowing you to confidently present new trends and commercially credible strategic thinking to senior stakeholders.
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. At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements. 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. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy. At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Some of our benefits include:
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• 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%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year