Work type: permanent full time
Location: Sydney
Categories: Commercial Content
Who Are We?
Are Media is Australia’s leading omnichannel content company for women. Every day we influence, inform, inspire, and connect with 6 in 10 Australian women across magazine media, digital, video, social, e-commerce, customer review sites, podcasts, events and experiences. Our brands include The Australian Women’s Weekly, Better Homes & Gardens, Woman’s Day, marie claire, TV WEEK, New Idea, Now to Love, Australian Gourmet Traveller, BEAUTY/crew and ELLE. Through our Change AREgenda we drive meaningful and positive change for women
Are Media employs Australia’s best content creation talent and we are proud that our greatest strength is our people.
Why Are Media?
Join Australia’s leading content company for women and be part of an inspiring, creative and collaborative team. We offer excellent people programs including:
- A day of leave for your birthday,
- 4 days of volunteering leave each year,
- An inclusive parental leave program that supports all parents, families & carers,
- FREE digital access to all our titles, and
- Our unique Are Media Learning Academy (Digital Academy, Lunch N Learns, Mentoring and much more).
We support flexible ways of working through our Activity Based Working (ABW) model. We encourage a balance of working in the office and remotely and we believe this enables our people to do their best work.
About the role
As Commercial Editor, you'll be part of Are Media's award-winning Brands and Commercial Solutions division. This specialised and dynamic team includes writers, editors, strategists, researchers, art directors, producers, event managers and trade marketers. Day-to-day, you will work with the Content Team on ideating and executing digital and social content for Are Media's advertising clients such as Gucci, Dyson, L'Oreal Paris, Cartier, Dior, Samsung, SMEG, La Trobe Financial, Samsung, Netflix, Pandora, Kaboodle, Langham Hotels and more.
It's a varied and fast-paced role, driven by deadlines and suiting someone who's full of ideas, who can deliver clean, clever copy to tight deadlines and who loves the challenge of solving problems for clients. You will work across a portfolio of Media's most well-known digital brands including marie claire, elle, The Australian Women's Weekly, marie claire, ELLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Home Beautiful, Real Living, Inside Out, Australian House & Garden, WHO, Woman’s Day, Gourmet Traveller and more. Given the scope of the role, you will need to be able to write with ease and expertise across multiple categories such as beauty, fashion, finance, entertainment, health, homes, food and travel.
You'll report into the Commercial Content Director and have direct contact with many stakeholders, predominantly internal, including editorial print, digital and social. You'll be just as comfortable on Teams chatting to editorial as you will be joining impromptu brainstorm.
You will be an integral part of Are Media. As part of the Brands and Commercial Solutions Content team, responsible for bringing to life client's ideas on our iconic brands' digital and social channels, telling stories that engage audiences, and move people and products.
Duties
While no two days are the same, your core responsibilities will be:
- Answering digitally-led advertising briefs: ideation that is on-brand, engaging and meet’s client’s campaign objectives, brainstorming big-picture ideas, recommending digital and social executions that are backed by insights and learned knowledge of our brands and digital platforms, and working to the client's budget and objectives.
- Writing native articles and digital advertorials, managing feedback from internal and external stakeholders, setting content live in the CMS, writing social posts.
- Sub-editing teammates copy.
- Collaborating with the Creative Team on video-led, picture-led or original social assets for clients, as well as teasing stories out of supplied social assets.
- While the role doesn't have any direct reports, you will be expected to collectively help the Digital Content & Social Media Editor, Traffic Manager, Commercial Editors and Commercial Content Director when required. You will also serve as a go-to digital and social brain for questions from the sales team around your lead brands.
Skills and experience
The successful candidate will have:
- Experience across at least two of the following categories - beauty, fashion, health, entertainment, travel, finance and food.
- Minimum four years' experience in a digital editorial role.
- You will be experienced and at ease using the WordPress/CMS, Instagram, Facebook, Canva, Eccobox - you'll be jumping in and out of all of these platforms daily.
- Reliable and able to meet fast deadlines.
- Excellent communication, professional approach and exceptional time management skills are a must.
- A passion for our brands and for telling stories is highly valued.
- Ability to deal with fast-paced feedback and find constructive solutions to client feedback a must.
- Experience with Teams, Outlook, Monday.com is preferred, but not essential.
- Commercial experience is valued, but not essential.
Are Media is committed to a diverse, respectful, collaborative & inclusive workplace. We know & value the success this brings for everyone and we welcome & encourage applications from diverse backgrounds. When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
Please and send your CV via the link.
Advertised: 18 Aug 2023 AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 15 Sep 2023 AUS Eastern Standard Time
