International Newstrade Manager

Are you a people person who thrives on the excitement of new opportunities and always looks for a better way? Would you love to do that in an environment that gives you the chance to work with partners from all across the globe on brands such as Vogue, Mojo, Peppa Pig, Top Gear, Grazia and many more?

The Seymour International team is looking for an International Newstrade Manager, to become part of our excellent account management team that provides a tailored service to publishers. The role provides an ideal first step into a full client facing role or the opportunity for an experienced account manager to build their skills in an international environment.

You will be part of a friendly, fast-paced, and creative team that successfully offers publishers a first-class service and drives their profits through the international channel. We do this by ensuring regular portfolios have the right strategies in place, but also by introducing exciting profitable opportunities that follow market trends and offer clients incremental business with their existing resources.

The International Newstrade Manager is a highly commercial role providing clients with a dedicated point of contact for the international newstrade channel. The INM works with clients to drive profitable sales across export territories. They will do this by:

• Being the clients trusted advisor providing strategic input into newstrade marketing plans that drive profit for both the client and Seymour
• Delivering performance reporting and insight to support clients business decisions
• Tailoring the right opportunities that drive profitable newstrade sales and maximise trade marketing investment in line with individual client commercial models
• Working with clients, and the international territory team, to identify new sales/product opportunities across their portfolios.

This role would suit candidates who have experience in Account Management, Trade Marketing, Sales & Negotiation, and Strategic Planning and are looking for a role that will help them develop these skills further whilst expanding their knowledge in an International environment.

At the Frontline Group, we offer great development opportunities, enhanced family friendly leave and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme, to name a few.

On top of that, we also offer:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and income protection
• Executive coaching and mentoring available to all
• Everyone has access to our EPIC approach to talent development
• Informal hybrid working
• 2 paid volunteering days per annum
• Additional discretionary day and loyalty schemes
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme

• Account Management experience gained through delivery of key objectives is desirable but exceptional candidates without this can be trained
• A commercial approach always taking into account both Client and Seymour's business models
• Excellent inter-personal skills, able to communicate, negotiate, persuade and build relationships at all levels
• Highly accountable and able to make the right decisions under pressure
• Advanced presentation skills
• Self-motivated and willing to challenge the status quo if there is a better way
• Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail
• Intermediate/Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software

This is an office-based role, as such we are willing to discuss a wide range of flexible working options (including part-time) although we do expect that you cover core business hours of 10am - 4pm. As a company we embrace hybrid working, so working from home as part of your working week is normal as long as you are available in the office as required by the business. At the moment we ask office based roles to work a minimum of 8 days in the office over a four week period, including being in the office every Wednesday for the company-wide office day.

The Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Seymour, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We're the UK's leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working predominantly in the exciting and diverse areas of publishing and home entertainment.

Our key clients include publishers of iconic magazine brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Choice, Heat, Top Gear, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Cosmopolitan, Empire, National Geographic and 100's more. We also work with major film studios managing their DVD presence within the grocery retail channel and are growing our reach in categories such as books and music with further category expansions on the horizon.

The Frontline Group is owned by two of the world's leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company (Hubert Burda Media). This will provide opportunities to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions including brand marketing, sales, analytics, insight, finance, IT services, supply chain and publishing. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of supporting and coaching our colleagues, who have then gone on to grow their career within our business.

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