Head of Editorial
- Manchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Shape Editorial Execution Across Brands: Support the Director of Editorial in delivering editorial excellence across LADbible Group's portfolio. Help implement content strategies across brands, ensuring each has a strong, distinct voice that connects with its core audience.
- Lead and Develop Teams: Lead day-to-day management of editorial teams within your remit-providing coaching, clear direction, and development opportunities. Set goals, review performance, and nurture a collaborative and high-performing team culture.
- Champion Editorial Tone and Identity: Work with brand leads to evolve and maintain each brand's editorial tone; from LADbible's everyday relatability to GAMINGbible's fun, informed voice. Ensure the tone of voice is clear, consistent, and adapted to the platform and audience.
- Deliver Standout Content: Drive the creation of best-in-class editorial content across formats; from headlines and explainers to features and social-first storytelling. Guide teams to craft work that is high-impact, culturally relevant, and on-brand.
- Ensure Brand & Content Alignment: Collaborate closely with brand, video, and marketing teams to ensure messaging and content output aligns with each brand's mission, tone, and business goals.
- Spot Trends and Act Fast: Stay plugged into cultural conversations, audience shifts, platform trends, and new content formats. Use these insights to guide agile editorial decisions and spot opportunities to innovate and break new ground.
- Drive Audience Growth: Use performance data and audience insights to guide content creation and distribution strategies. Partner with SEO, social and digital teams to drive reach, retention, and engagement across channels and platforms.
- Support Global Alignment: Work with global editorial counterparts (including US-based teams like Betches) to share best practice, align tone and strategy where relevant, and contribute to the Group's growing international editorial footprint.
- Proven Team Leader: You've successfully led editorial teams in digital publishing or fast-paced media environments. You can mentor and manage with confidence, and you know how to get the best out of writers, editors and creatives.
- Editorially Strong, Creatively Sharp: You have a journalist's instinct for story and a digital editor's flair for packaging. You understand what makes content click and what makes it matter.
- Sector Smart: You've worked across, or deeply understand key verticals like lifestyle, entertainment, sport, gaming or tech. You know how to adapt tone and coverage style depending on the audience and brand.
- Audience-Led Storyteller: You think like your readers and viewers. You know how to create content that feels relevant, inclusive and fresh and how to lead teams to do the same.
- Social-Savvy & Platform Fluent: From Facebook and TikTok to YouTube, X and Instagram, you're comfortable guiding content that performs on-platform. You're not just aware of what's trending; you're already working out how to make it your own.
- Collaborative Communicator: You work well with stakeholders across functions, from commercial to creative. You're clear, approachable, and solutions focused.
- Balanced and Focused: You can juggle multiple projects, switch gears when needed, and stay calm under pressure. You keep the audience and brand at the heart of every decision.
- Driven by Impact: You care about meaningful stories and memorable content. You're motivated by audience reaction, team success, and helping shape editorial direction in a business that's changing the way people consume media.
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