Job Description

About us

Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, 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.


As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our client's sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met. Through our brand targeting and audience engagement agency Gold Key Media we develop sampling and marketing solutions, and we manage brand placement activities in the events, travel and hospitality sectors across the world.


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.


Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.


All our roles offer an informal hybrid working option, combining in-office and remote/home working.


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About the Role

Are you looking for exciting opportunity to work in a great team, growing brands at retail and in an environment that is focused on your development? Then we would love to hear from you!


This role offers an excellent opportunity at the start of your career journey or alternatively you could be looking to return to the work environment and have previous data analysis, commercial analysis or team support experience.

Job Opportunity

Your role as Circulation & Trade Marketing Account Executive will see you working within Frontline Distribution Solution's Client Services team, supporting the Newstrade Marketing Manager with the management of publishing clients. Our services allow our clients to get their skilfully curated and beautifully created magazines into the hands of consumers across the globe, allowing people to be entertained, informed, inspired or to simply enjoy reading about their passion.

Key Accountabilities

Relationship building

- develop best in class customer relationships with our publishing clients and key internal and external stakeholders.

Collaboration

- work with your line manager and clients to create trade marketing plans that are activated at major retailers and independent outlets across the UK to grow sales efficiently and maximise the publisher's trade marketing budget.

Analytical

- Use data intelligently to forecast sales, review the effectiveness of trade marketing activities and provide your clients with updates on performance.

Curious

- spot opportunities to turn these data insights into recommendations & actions.

Proactive

- Engage with the retail sales team to ensure they are fully immersed in your clients' brands, and they understand their strategy and objectives.

Commercial

- Develop sales planning briefs to activate your magazine brands in as many outlets as efficiently and cost effectively as possible.

Presentation skills

- create presentations to be used for retail and client meetings and present effectively to internal Seymour departments and publishers when necessary.

Attention to detail

- accurately input retail activity into the magazine promotional booking system and keep your trade marketing plans up to date. Review and communicate distribution plans to key publisher contacts. Become a proficient user of company systems.

Company Benefits

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 Stuart House, Peterborough - On site gym, parking

Essential Skills

Essential Skills

Excellent attention to detail and a proven finisher A solid understanding of data analysis & ability to draw conclusions from data Proficient with Microsoft Office suite (in particular MS Excel) Strong logical approach to problem-solving Ability to meet deadlines and manage processes efficiently Good communication and relationship building skills
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Bring 'You' to the interview

Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to make sure that our selection processes are transparent and fair, providing a level playing field for anyone who wants to come and work with us. Therefore, if you require any adjustments to an interview process, please feel free to get in touch with

alex.wanless@flgroup.co.uk

who will be happy to discuss your needs in complete confidence.