*Please note: This is a 9 day fortnight for Maternity cover*

Our Team:

Topical, informative and smart, Grazia is the home of this week’s biggest news stories and talking points as they happen, smart shoppable fashion, the most up-to-date trends from the runway, red carpet and the street.

The Focus of the Role:

The focus of this role is to produce fashion & beauty pages, covers, main fashion & beauty stories and fashion & beauty digital, video and social content, which are the best in the market in terms of relevance to the brand’s audience and quality of creative excellence.

This content should both deliver digital traffic and engagement targets and contribute to the continued commercial and newsstand success of print.

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Discounted high street vouchers
• Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development (Bauer Media Group - Academy: Posts | LinkedIn)
• Opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Company pension 
• Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
• Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
• Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
• Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives

Flexible Working

We want to make sure that we find the right people to work in our teams, and we know that the traditional 9-5, five days a week doesn’t suit everyone. So, we would love to hear from you if you feel you’re a great fit for this role and would like to work flexibly. If you are the right person for this role, we’ll find the right working approach for you. 

We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.

• Running the Grazia fashion & beauty departments and work closely with the Editor, Art Director and Digital Director
• Deliver the fashion & beauty pages to the Production Editor’s deadlines
• Consistently organising and supervising shoots that stand out and make the magazine famous for fashion & beauty in its market – both with readers and relevant advertisers
• Writing compelling copy that gets national pick-up, often at speed in response to news events
• Representing the brand at key industry events – including RTW shows in Milan and Paris
• To maintain Grazia’s key relationships with the fashion industry and keep positive working relations with all external parties: photographers, stylists, agents, publicists, celebrities and advertisers
• Maintain a high standard of photography/models while looking out for and nurturing new talent, and add to Grazia’s roster of creative contributors
• Developing reader involvement within the fashion area outside of words and pictures – eg through events such as shop promotions and/or on new digital platforms
• To deliver fashion & beauty content online that meets traffic, engagement, affiliate and other relevant targets
• To deliver fashion & beauty content on social that meets targets and pushes new boundaries
• To work with digital division to explore and exploit new digital revenue opportunities: eg, newsletters, new social channels
• To adhere to all budgets and report all expenditure; producing mark-ups and cost estimates as appropriate
• To manage, coach and help develop the fashion & beauty team

• Market Awareness: Ability to think like a reader; balance editorial principles with the need to help the Ad team; keep one step ahead of competitors
• Commercial Awareness & Results: Assists the Editor to produce a magazine on time and within budget, and in line with readership and grow digital footprint in line with targets.
• Judgement: The ability to evaluate complicated issues, discriminating between strong and weak arguments and to reach sensible, fair and consistent decisions affecting the team.
• Achievement Drive: Consistently produces high quality output; is reliable and professional with a flexible style.
• Initiative & Innovation: Contributes masses of ideas for developing the brand.
• Interpersonal Sensitivity: Actions indicate an ability to predict reactions and prepare accordingly ensuring awareness and influence of reactions of individuals, your teams and your readers.
• Actively living and promoting the Bauer Media Values

About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group has become an enduringly successful media corporation by focusing on creating content that matters most to millions of people around the world: from print and online publishing to radio and money-helper services for consumers, as well as sales and marketing services for SMB. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer focuses on the long term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our increasingly diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 15,000 shares a passion – to deliver content and services that are popular with, and helpful to, our customers and partners.

As the UK’s biggest selling magazine publisher, we create iconic and influential magazine media brands, digital properties and associated consumer and B2B live events for diverse, passionate audiences.  We reach 25 million consumers through our portfolio, which includes heat, Grazia, Closer, Empire, Motor Cycle News, Parkers, Mother& Baby, TV Choice, Take a Break, Bella, Yours, Garden News and Country Walking.  Our scale, coupled with the breadth of our portfolio, gives us an advantage over pure play magazine competitors. It also gives us a huge responsibility - our brands become the lens through which our audiences see the world, and for this reason, we take our responsibilities as a media outlet very seriously, recognising that we are responsible for shaping perceptions in the wider world.

Belonging at Bauer Mission statement

People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.

What we will offer you

Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.

Our mental health at work

We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.

Bauer Core Values

Creativity - We create unique, high quality content that delights our audiences.

Ambition - We think big and bold, pushing boundaries and embracing change.

Passion - We approach every day with curiosity, commitment and a lively positive mindset.

Teamwork - We learn from each other and take the time to understand both challenges and opportunities, working together to find the right solution.

Trust - We are open, respectful and honest.

Inclusivity - We encourage different points of view and perspectives and value all contributions.

Responsibility - We make measured and thoughtful decisions that support the business vision.