Creative Sector Hub Manager - Academy

Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life
You’ll be joining Bauer Academy, where we empower individuals and organisations across the creative industries to thrive. Our team is collaborative, innovative and driven by impact. This role is ideal for someone ready to step into a broader, more impactful and autonomous position, taking ownership of complex programmes and stakeholder environments.

You’ll play a key role in a brand-new, externally funded initiative, helping to build and deliver activity from the ground up, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to bring ideas to life and deliver initiatives that make a real difference. This isn’t just coordination; you’ll lead the delivery of high-impact pilot projects, testing new ideas and creating real change across the creative sector.

The Difference You Will Make
As Sector Hub Manager, you will turn strategy into action. You’ll play a key role in delivering projects and initiatives that directly tackle skills gaps across the creative industries. Your work will directly contribute to tackling skills gaps, improving access, and creating new opportunities across the creative industries.

Your Role
You’ll manage and deliver Sector Hub initiatives, ensuring high-quality execution and meaningful results. You’ll regularly engage with senior stakeholders, including industry leaders and public sector representatives to ensure activity, government requirements and complex needs are delivered to the highest standard. You’ll use data and insight to evaluate success, shape future initiatives and provide recommendations to leadership teams.

Responsibilities include:

- Managing and delivering projects and pilot initiatives

- Coordinating meetings, boards and stakeholder engagement

- Preparing reports, insights and recommendations

- Analysing performance and measuring impact

- Delivering events, workshops and collaborative sessions

- Building strong stakeholder relationships

The Skills You Will Bring
- Experience managing projects or programmes

- Strong organisational and multitasking skills

- Knowledge of the creative industries

- Confident communication and stakeholder engagement skills

- Analytical mindset with reporting experience

- Experience delivering events or workshops

Working Pattern & Location
This is a full-time role on an initial 18 months contract, based in the London office twice a week with the rest home-working.

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 28 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 committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so 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.