Best Buys Editor

Job Description

Best Buys Editor Times Money Mentor

We are: News UK & Ireland is a phenomenal company full of talented, dedicated, and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a real passion for quality content and storytelling. Our digital and print products include some of the most powerful media brands in the world, reaching more than 30 million people each week. Our brands include national newspapers: The Times and The Sunday Times, and radio stations, including Times Radio.

Your team: Situated within News UK’s customer department, the Times Money Mentor team is tasked with driving editorial excellence & revenue through expertise, thought leadership, and innovation whilst creating the foundations for future revenue streams. You will report to the Times Money Mentor Editor and work closely with the e-commerce and affiliates team, as well as key editorial stakeholders.

Your role: Best Buys Editor

Times Money Mentor’s goal is to help readers live richer lives, and a key part of that is answering the question: “What’s the best product for me?” To help with that, we have a large and growing group of pages aimed at addressing that question for a range of different products.

As Best Buys Editor you will write, commission, edit and publish review-based content to help develop The Times Money Mentor brand. Ideally, you will be knowledgeable about financial services and have already had success writing about the products, services, and brands in this sector. You will create content rooted in data and analytics but written with people’s needs in mind. You will also need to keep an eye on revenue and traffic growth to ensure targets are met. A strong self-starter and a stickler for detail, you will be adept at managing multiple projects and stakeholders, ensuring complete accuracy and efficiency at all times.

You will work collaboratively with editorial, analytics, and commercial teams to produce high-quality work at all times. As a results-driven individual with a can-do attitude, you will be adaptable and thrive on working with a talented editorial team in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Day to day, you will:

1. Work closely with and under the direction of the Times Money Mentor Editor to develop and build the editorial strategy for The Times Money Mentor Best Buy pages.
2. Commission best-in-class review content based on strategic decisions rooted in data and insight.
3. Ensure current Best Buy pages are up to date and performing as well as possible for readers and SEO.
4. Work closely with the Affiliate Manager to write and publish content for key long-term partnerships and ad-hoc advertorial campaigns.
5. Research and review financial products and write engaging articles with your findings.
6. Take guidance from the SEO analyst to commission and publish content that resonates with our audiences and traffic sources.
7. Work with the Business Analyst to ensure data is accurate and help refine and define what “best” really means for product categories.
8. Work towards traffic, revenue and engagement targets, ensuring key metrics are achieved across all work areas.
9. Work closely with wider stakeholders (the eCommerce team, editorial and SEO teams) to build revenue streams across the section and increase yield wherever possible.
10. Support partnerships, e-commerce and affiliates endeavours when required.
11. Commission, edit and publish with FCA, ASA and CAP code regulations front of mind, ensuring compliance with these at all times.

Key Skills:

1. Proven digital journalism experience, preferably in a newsroom environment, with good knowledge of the financial services sector.
2. Excellent written/verbal communication skills.
3. Copywriting and proofreading experience.
4. Proven ability to deliver projects with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
5. Commercially minded.
6. Organised and efficient.
7. Excellent time management.
8. Proactive and resourceful.
9. Ability to work on your own initiative.
10. Good working knowledge of SEO.
11. Working knowledge of WordPress content management system or similar.

What's in it for you?

We love our business and what we do. We want you to love work as much as we do so we promise to offer on-the-job training and development enabling you to be the best you can be.

Flexible Working: At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

NewsUK Benefits: We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK. Alongside pay, we offer:

1. A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
2. A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions.
3. Maternity leave of up to 18 weeks full basic salary and paternity leave of up to 2 weeks full basic salary.
4. Discounted rates for Fitness First gym membership for employees and immediate family.
5. Interest-free commuter loan of up to £10,000 tax-free.
6. ‘Bikes For Work’ scheme to save income tax and national insurance.
7. Up to four Volunteering Days per year for employees to use on charities of choice.
8. Health and wellbeing benefits include on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal advice, and others.

Equal opportunities: We are a diverse team and strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential. We want to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised, utilised and celebrated.

News UK is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal opportunities for all its employees and applicants. We oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace.

We thrive when we champion diversity and inclusion. We make better decisions, we’re stronger and happier, and it’s the right thing to do.