Circulation Manager – Publisher Services

About the Company

As the UK’s leading magazine distributor, Marketforce work closely with some of the UK’s leading Publishers on sales strategy, advise on the best approaches to the distribution of their brands and develop the most striking consumer promotions on the UK newsstand.

About Publisher Services

Publishing Services provides high quality circulation sales and marketing solutions for over 30 independent publishers. We represent a wide range of leading magazine publishers, including Hello!, DC Thompson, Panini and RBI. We are a dynamic and growing division, highly focused on servicing our publishers’ needs.

Role and Responsibilities

Due to new business expansion an exciting opportunity has arisen within a fast paced, dynamic and creative team for a Circulation Manager to devise the creation and implement sales, retail trade marketing and distribution strategies for our publisher clients.

The role will be responsible for market performance analysis and managing the trade marketing and circulation strategies for a wide range of magazines.

The candidate must be comfortable presenting and working closely with clients & senior managers up to Managing Director level and be able to manage complex and challenging stakeholder relationships.

Skills

You will need to:

• actively establish and maintain exceptional working relationships with clients at all levels;

• develop and execute retail trade marketing strategies to meet agreed publisher objectives;

• tailor messages in a clear and effective manner for different stakeholder requirements;

• possess drive, initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit;

• work with a broad set of colleagues to deliver retail trade marketing & circulation initiatives;

• have the creative flair to bring alive the story behind the data;

• be comfortable juggling the requirements of a variety of different brands within a portfolio;

• work collaboratively with the circulation executives to ensure workload is managed efficiently;

• be looking to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment.

You will have:

• have excellent communication and organisation skills;

• good IT skills and are confident using Excel;

• an analytical aptitude and the capability of discussing, presenting and proactively acting on analytical & insight findings;

• the ability to work as an integral member of a team, whilst also being able to work autonomously at times;

• around 3 years previous experience in a circulation role, ideally from a publishing or magazine distributor background;

• strong time-management skills to ensure tight deadlines are achieved;

• a motivating and encouraging management style to enable your team to perform to their optimum capabilities;