Your mission
HELLO! and HELLO! Fashion, two of the UK’s most iconic lifestyle and fashion titles, are seeking a dynamic and experienced Account Director / Commercial Partnerships Director to lead travel sector partnerships across all platforms
This is a unique opportunity to work with globally recognised brands that reach an extensive audience passionate about luxury, lifestyle, and travel. Please note that this is a fixed term contract.
Key Responsibilities
We're looking for a commercially driven sales leader to:
- Generate new business across both HELLO! and HELLO! Fashion’s print and digital & social platforms
- Proven track record of big scale cross platform content partnerships
- Long standing and meaningful client relationships in Marketing Teams and relevant specialist travel agencies
- Own and lead all travel specials across Hello Network (Magazine, Brand extensions Digital, Events, Social, Podcast and H Fashion - print, digital, social and audio
- Lead a strong revenue pipeline report & forecast performance monthly, quarterly and annually
- Grow, identify and develop long-term relationships with key travel clients using a consultative and strategic approach
- Confidently pitch integrated advertising solutions over the directly to clients virtually and face to face
- Act as a category expert within the travel & luxury space, staying ahead of trends and market insights internally and externally
- Collaborate with wider commercial teams, editorial, commercial content teams, and digital teams to deliver tailored and impactful campaigns
- Ownership of executing the revenue targets around the Travel Multiplatform Editorial strategy and successfully monetising HELLO!’s first ever Travel Awards and Travel Podcast/Show
- Attend and represent HELLO! at travel trade shows throughout the year
Qualifications
Experience is key but a relevant degree qualification would be desirable.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave per year (for full time employees)
- 1 birthday day per year
- Private medical scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Life assurance currently 6 x salary
- Generous employer pension contributions
- Group income protection scheme
- Plus all the perks of working for a fun media company!
To apply, please provide your CV and a cover letter.
About us
MISSION STATEMENT
To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.
History of Hello
HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988.
Over the years, its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.
HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive,¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain.
With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada.
Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.