Job Description
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the core of our mission to strengthen and empower the communities we serve.
Advance Local is looking for an Ad Trafficker to join our team. The ad trafficker facilitates the transmission of all print and digital ad volume and ensures proper materials have been delivered and submitted to the appropriate ad production group.
We are looking for candidates who have:
Experience in a related field or comparable experience, preferred
Computer software proficiency
Computer experience with Excel, Adobe Creative Suite, Mac OS and PC, preferred
Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize multiple tasks
Attention to detail
Strong communication and customer service skills
Ability to work in a team environment
Ability to use Xpance and Jivox creative programs to build print and digital ads
Flexiblity to work different schedules during the week.
In this position, you will:

Confirm creative print and digital ad submissions for completeness
Contribute to ad production department as necessary, including design
Be able to create reports as needed
Perform production workflow troubleshooting while on deadline, including backtracking ads to discover errors
Establish and maintain quality, productive relationships with sales staff, advertising clients, and satellite hubs
Lead communication regarding ad statuses with Local Media Groups, including providing daily lists showing missing ads and ads still out for approval.
Additional Information
Advance Local Media offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package with affordable options for your healthcare including medical, dental and vision plans, mental health support options, flexible spending accounts, fertility assistance, a competitive 401(k) plan to help plan for your future, generous paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave and an employee assistance program to support your work/life balance, optional legal assistance, life insurance options, as well as flexible holidays to honor cultural diversity.

Advance Local Media is one of the largest media groups in the United States, which operates the leading news and information companies in more than 20 cities, reaching 52+ million people monthly with our quality, real-time journalism and community engagement. Our company is built upon the values of Integrity, Customer-first, Inclusiveness, Collaboration and Forward-looking. For more information about Advance Local, please visit www.advancelocal.com.

Advance Local Media includes MLive Media Group, Advance Ohio, Alabama Media Group, NJ Advance Media, Advance Media NY, MassLive Media, Oregonian Media Group, Staten Island Media Group, PA Media Group, ZeroSum, Headline Group, Adpearance, Advance Aviation, Advance Healthcare, Advance Education, Advance National Solutions, Advance Recruitment, Advance Travel & Tourism, Cloud Theory, Hoot Interactive, Reckon, Red Clay Media, Search Optics, Subtext, Lonestar Live.

Advance Local Media is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, encouraging applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Advance Local Media does not provide sponsorship for work visas or employment authorization in the United States. Only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered for this position.

Contra is seeking a Social Media Manager to join our team, bringing creativity and strategic insight to our online presence. This role is perfect for a professional adept in crafting compelling content and engaging with our community on various social channels, reflecting our ethos of empowering users to work independently.

This is a contract position for ~ 20 hours per week.

What you’ll be working on:

Curating and posting content across multiple social media platforms.

Editing and optimizing content to align with our brand and message.

Engaging with and growing our existing audience to foster community growth.

Monitoring social media trends to help build a content strategy.

Tracking and reporting on social media performance metrics.

Collaborating closely with our marketing team to develop campaigns that resonate with our users.

About Contra

MEMBER SINCE 2024
Contra is the global professional network for skills, where companies and independents connect and work together, 100% commission free.
It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Fixed term contract

Location
32 London Bridge Street, London

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About our Content Optimisation Specialist role.
As a Content Optimisation Specialist, you’ll be responsible for measuring and optimising the performance of Sage content marketing and customer success content globally including influence on sales pipeline and revenue as well as producing insights to enable the production of customer-centric, differentiated content.

While the role is for an individual contributor, we are looking for a candidate that is experienced in content optimisation and is comfortable taking the lead to identify new and better ways of producing insight-based content and effective measurement of content performance within campaigns and beyond. The role has opportunities to use a range of measurement tools and dashboards and utilise various research methods including qualitative and quantitative.

This is a great opportunity to work in the Integrated Campaigns team on a temporary contract to end of August 2025.

Location – 3 days per week out of our Newcastle or London Office

Key Responsibilities
Summary of your day-to-day?
In a typical day, you will manage and analyse both quantitative and qualitative data from Sage's global marketing content, synthesising monthly insights and recommendations. You oversee the performance analysis, optimisation, and impact of multi-channel content, including blogs, customer stories, and campaigns. Additionally, you manage conversion rate optimisation (CRO), personalisation, and user research programs for blog and campaign pages, including testing and reporting. You collaborate with customer marketing teams to drive cross-sell and upsell opportunities, support regional content teams by educating them on the impact of content on sales and brand metrics, and build the case for content investment across the sales funnel. By producing data-backed insights and quarterly reports, you work with web analytics, SEO, and social tools, while collaborating with marketing intelligence teams to enhance content reporting infrastructure. You consistently gather insights to improve content strategies.

Minimum qualifications
Experience of content optimisation and/or content performance measurement experience

Experience working with SEO and data and analytics teams

Conversion optimisation experience

Understanding of the content, marketing and web measurement landscape


We will be extra interested in your experience using Salesforce for reporting, ContentSquare, SimilarWeb, Buzzsumo, PowerBI, Google Analytics, Optimizley or similar tools.

Dig deeper about who we are:
Who is Sage: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/about-sage/
Life at Sage: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/careers/
Our Values & Behaviors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vt5JXf-Gwno&feature=youtu.be
How we make a difference: https://www.sage.com/en-us/company/sage-foundation/
Sage Business Cloud - SaaS for Every Business: https://www.sage.com/en-us/products/

Your benefits (Only Applicable for UK Based Roles)
Benefits video – https://youtu.be/TCMtTYUUiuU
Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage

Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year

On-going training and professional development

Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation

Flexible work patterns and hybrid working

Location
3 London Bridge St, London

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Car scheme
Company pension
Discounted gym membership
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Private medical insurance

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SEO Analyst

Location:

London

Department:

The Times Money Mentor

Salary Details:

Not Specified

**Advertising End Date:**

02 Dec 2024

Job Description

The Times is looking for a highly motivated SEO Journalist to assist with the development and delivery of an organic growth strategy for the Times Money Mentor website. Heading into its next stage of growth, Times Money Mentor is on a mission to become a household name and the go-to place for everything you never knew you needed to know about your finances.

**Your Team:** Times Money Mentor was launched December 2019 with the goal of helping everyone across the UK better understand their financial world and make the right decisions that will benefit them today and long into the future.

Since launching we have reached millions of people with our videos, articles and product ratings and are on a mission to reach many millions more. The Money Mentor website is an Editorial initiative and presents excellent opportunities to input directly into the wider Product and Editorial strategies.

**Day-to-day:** You will be gathering search trends and insights to inform new, high-quality content and content refreshes, optimising on-page furniture as well as taking part in longer term planning to shape the Money Mentor content strategy across digital, video, ecommerce and social for the future. You’ll turn data into content briefs and be working alongside the editor and writing team, as well as the ecommerce lead and ad manager, plus wider Insights team. You’ll work with social media and other audience development specialists to share information and react to trending topics.

You will need a passion for data and analytics as well as the ability to translate the numbers into actionable insights for editorial, product and the ecommerce teams, developing ways to grow our audience and deliver more traffic and conversions to ensure revenue growth. You will oversee on page SEO implementation, with support from the technical SEO team and key stakeholders around the business. You will regularly carry out competitor analysis and identify new opportunities and ways to optimise existing content plus work closely with the Partnerships Lead to define audience and influence strategy across key partnership projects.

**What we are looking for from you:**

+ In-depth knowledge of on page SEO for publishers (on-page essential, technical a strong plus)

+ Journalism experience/qualifications, ideally in the personal finance space

+ Money / Personal finance sector experience preferred

+ Data literate with ability to measure success across varying metrics

+ Extracting insight from Google Trends, Search Console and various other tools to monitor and increase search rankings

+ Using Google Analytics to monitor traffic

+ Experience in turning search insights into content briefs

+ Editing and writing experience

+ Excellent communicator, Dynamic and entrepreneurial work style.

+ Data-driven approach

+ Effective project management and experience working with many stakeholders (Editorial, SEO/Audience/Commercial) to deliver strategy.

**Life at News**

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

**Benefits**

Some of our benefits include:

+ Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & **paternity** leave up to 2 weeks

+ Wide range of **training** available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

+ **Private medical insurance** including coverage for pre-existing conditions

+ **Discounted gym memberships** **,** free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

+ **‘Bikes for Work’** and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

+ Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

+ Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

+ Access to **wellbeing benefits** such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

+ A generous **pension** scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

+ 25 days **holiday** , plus bank holidays and up to 4 **volunteering** days per year

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.