Group Commercial Manager
Requirements
Candidates must have experience in agency or client-side print or digital advertising or media sales, with a track record of meeting or exceeding revenue targets. They should be skilled in selling multi-platform campaigns, negotiating, presenting to senior stakeholders, and building relationships; contacts at West End media agencies are strongly advantageous.
Job Description
We're looking for a talented and ambitious Group Commercial Manager to join our commercial team. This is an exciting opportunity for a confident, strategic sales professional with agency or client-facing experience to drive commercial growth across both brands.
You'll work closely with agencies and clients directly to deliver compelling, multi-platform advertising solutions. From securing new business to nurturing key relationships, you'll play a pivotal role in positioning The Spectator and UnHerd as premium partners for impactful campaigns and sponsorships.
If you're a natural dealmaker with a passion for politics and current affairs, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive revenue growth across client, agency, and digital advertising
- Manage a portfolio of agency and direct accounts, offering tailored media solutions
- Develop and deliver persuasive pitches and strategic recommendations
- Oversee campaigns from briefing through delivery, ensuring top-tier execution
- Build and maintain strong client and agency relationships
- Identify and convert new business opportunities in emerging markets
- Cultivate long-term client partnerships to secure repeat business
- Stay informed on industry trends and contribute innovative commercial ideas
- Represent the brands at industry events and conferences
About You
- Strong sales instincts with a flair for negotiation and relationship-building
- Experience in agency or client-side roles within print/digital advertising or media sales is a must
- Strong contacts at West End Media agencies with Client Direct a definite plus
- Skilled and experienced in selling multi-platform campaigns
- Strategic thinker with a proactive and consultative approach to agency and client needs
- Proven ability to hit and exceed revenue targets
- Confident presenter and communicator at senior levels
- Highly organised and self-motivated with a collaborative mindset
- A genuine interest in politics and current affairs is a plus
This is an opportunity to be part of two distinctive and influential media brands at an exciting point in their commercial development. You'll have the freedom to develop meaningful agency and client relationships, bring ambitious ideas to life and play a direct role in growing our advertising business.
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About The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly delight if you love good writing, contentious opinion and hard-hitting comment. With the finest writing on current affairs, politics, the arts, books and life, you'll read regular columnists who delight, provoke and amuse and editorial features of incredible breadth and depth. Established in 1828, The Spectator is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language. Its taste for controversy, however, remains undiminished. There is no party line to which its writers are bound – originality of thought and elegance of expression are the sole editorial constraints. The result, week after week, is that Britain’s best columnists, critics and cartoonists turn out their finest work for the magazine and give you their views unfiltered and at cask strength.
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