Associate Editor, GRAZIA (Fashion & Luxury)

The Focus of the Role:

As Associate Editor, you will be producing fashion & luxury pages, covers, main fashion stories, 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!

You’ll have a hybrid working model where you’ll work from the London office 3 days per week, and the rest working from home.

The Team You’ll Join…

GRAZIA is Britain’s go-to glossy for luxury fashion, agenda-setting features, and exclusive A-list access. With a new issue every fortnight, we’re a fast-paced, creatively driven team with bold ambitions and a vibrant culture to match. Our office buzzes with energy and collaboration thrives in person for us! If you’re looking to be part of a fun, forward-thinking environment where creativity is celebrated and ideas come to life, this is your moment!

Key Responsibilities:

• Running the Grazia fashion departments and work closely with the Editor, Art Director and Digital Director
• Deliver the fashion pages to the Production Editor’s deadlines
• Consistently organising and supervising shoots that stand out and make the magazine famous 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 content online that meets traffic, engagement, affiliate and other relevant targets
• To deliver fashion 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 team

What You’ll Bring:

• Proven experience working in the fashion and luxury world.
• Skilled writer and commissioner; both words and shoots.
• Have strong management skills.
• Worked cross platform; with a clear grasp of how to grow audiences across digital and social, but also experience of flatplanning and producing print pages.
• Know plenty of contacts within the fashion and luxury world
• Professional stakeholder management and be an ambassador for grazia at external events.

Closing Date: Sunday 16th November

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 25 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are actively recruiting for this position, however, the job advert may close earlier than expected.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.