Recruitment

Competitive basic + bonus + benefits

This is a senior level position within a major publishing house. We are looking for someone who has experience of working for a media owner with a solid background in syndication and image licensing.

You need to be a confident communicator and negotiator, a strategic thinker and possess first rate people management skills with the ability to win over new stakeholders and implement successful business strategices.

The Syndication & Images Manager will lead a team that is growing revenues, responsibilities and scope. The Manager will be responsible for 4 sales staff and 5 picture researchers, driving revenue from sales of content – images, text, digital – and increasing internal savings from reuse of the company's content stored on its internal image database.

Key Responsibilities

·         Market the value of the company's image database and sydication internally and to external clients.

·         Develop relationships with contributors, photographers, PR and model agencies.

·         Oversee/take responsibility for larger content sales deals.

·         Determining what content the company should be selling and where to maximise competitive advantage and achieve targets. This will include pricing and prioritisation of efforts/resource.

·         Investigating new business models for content syndication/use.

·         Determining and maximising what content is available for reuse/syndication.

·         Achieving annual revenue and profit targets.

·         Achieving annual cost-savings targets.

·         Management of operational costs and overheads and forecasting.

·         Overseeing contributor payments.

·         Negotiate price agreements with external image agencies.

·         Maximise the efficiency of content retrieval from internal sources.

·         Maximise editing policies for inclusion of material on the images database.

·         Determine current and future strategy for content storage

·         Management of the Images and Syndication team

Essential skills and experience

·         Previous experience of managing a sales team

·         Previous syndication/picture library experience

·         To demonstrate an excellent commercial acumen: selling, negotiating, influencing

·         Experience in setting strategy and linking to execution

·         The ability to lead, motivate and manage a target driven sales team, ensuring they are supported to deliver their objectives

Excellent salary package and benefits on offer.