Octave: A premium, data-fuelled video and audio monetisation business, leveraging world-class talent, brands, rights and content from News Broadcasting across multiple platforms. Octave is powered by Nucleus, News UK's award winning next generation data platform connecting brands with their audiences in premium environments delivering market leading results.

Your Role: This is an exciting role within the Octave Sales Team, helping to commercialise the Octave podcast portfolio. The role requires both active selling to media agencies across the market but also facilitating the wider sales teams on active campaign briefs. The role works closely with senior brand stakeholders to ensure the commercial team is aligned with new podcast launches across our networks. Reporting into the Head of Podcasts - Commercial, this role will be responsible for driving and delivering sponsorship, spot and and programmatic revenue across Octave podcasts.

Day to day you will:

Support the Head of Podcasts - Commercial, in driving strategy on how to expand and improve the existing Octave podcast offering.

Exceed podcast revenue targets and KPI's, delivering sponsorship, spot ad and programmatic revenue across all Octave podcast brands.

Support the wider Digital Sales and Business Development Teams across all Agency Hubs; determine target clients and verticals and educate internal teams with best-in-class digital knowledge and practices.

Alongside the Commercial Podcast Executive, ensure day to day management of all live briefs and campaigns from booking to activation.

Proactively approach target clients with a focus on long-term podcast sponsorship opportunities.

Attend internal brainstorming sessions and provide responses to campaign briefs.

Create presentations, reports and sales collateral for both clients and the wider sales teams to deliver to market.

Create and deliver partnership opportunities and revenues complementing wider News UK solutions and responses.

Work with digital, sales, activation and editorial stakeholders to consistently improve ideation, end-to-end delivery, to ensure world-class service and delivery for our clients.

What we're looking for from you:

A good knowledge of media, agency and client processes and business objectives.

Advanced interest in the UK media industry, with a passion for podcasts.

Demonstrable experience of working within the digital media space, ideally with podcasts, with creativity and a personal drive to create award-winning work.

Proven track record of building and nurturing relationships across a wide spectrum of agency disciplines.

Exceptional communication, presentation and organisational skills.

Proven experience in digital advertising, ad tech, or media, with a strong understanding of programmatic platforms and data strategy.

Strong commercial experience with demonstrable abilities to deliver sales targets.