Newsquest Media Group

Account Executive

• Build, manage and grow a portfolio of clients through regular contact, both in person and remotely
• Proactively identify and develop new business opportunities within your territory
• Consult with businesses to understand their objectives and recommend appropriate digital advertising solutions
• Present and sell multi‑channel digital products in a clear, commercially focused way
• Build long‑term client relationships grounded in trust and results
• Effectively balance home working, time in the York office and field‑based activity
• Consistently work towards and exceed agreed revenue targets
• Maintain accurate records of activity and pipeline using CRM systems
• Communicate confidently and professionally with stakeholders at all levels

Digital Sales Consultant

• Identify and win new business by proactively reaching out to potential clients across your region using cold calling and outbound sales techniques
• Work to clear financial targets and KPIs, consistently striving to exceed monthly revenue goals and performance benchmarks
• Manage and grow existing client accounts, providing ongoing support, identifying upsell opportunities, and increasing client spend through strategic recommendations
• Develop and manage a robust sales pipeline, using a consultative approach to move prospects through the sales cycle
• Build long-term relationships with clients by providing expert advice, excellent service, and ongoing support
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure smooth onboarding and campaign delivery for new clients
• Stay informed on industry trends, competitor activity, and LOCALiQ’s evolving product suite to maintain a competitive edge
• Represent LOCALiQ with professionalism and credibility, acting as a trusted ambassador for our regional news brands

Telesales Executive

Sales

• - Lead, motivate and develop a field-based merchandising team
• - Ensure sales territories, call cycles and daily plans are clearly defined and delivered
• - Conduct regular dual-calling with team members, providing coaching and written feedback
• - Build and maintain strong relationships with key retail partners and newsagents
• - Work closely with promotions, editorial and commercial teams to effectively promote content that drives newspaper and magazine sales
• - Ensure point-of-sale materials are current, consistent and on-brand across all outlets
• - Manage availability and waste targets, identifying opportunities for improvement
• - Identify new sales opportunities and alternative retail outlets
• - Contribute ideas to improve efficiency and reduce costs, including logistics
• - Report sales performance accurately and consistently for your titles

Retail Sales Manager

Account Manager

• Develop and implement SEO strategies tailored to client goals and industries.
• Work directly with clients, translating technical SEO concepts into clear, actionable advice.
• Monitor and report on performance metrics, identifying opportunities to optimise campaigns.
• Manage your workload effectively, ensuring deadlines are met without compromising quality.
• Adapt strategies to meet the needs of clients across a variety of sectors.

SEO Account Manager

• Drive business-to-business sales through a mix of telephone, video, and face-to-face meetings with education-focused clients across your territory.
• Deliver consultative selling by identifying customer needs through effective questioning and discovery, then recommending the most suitable digitally led solutions.
• Conduct thorough research into each client’s organization and education sub-sector to ensure tailored and relevant proposals.
• Maximize marketing spend within your category or territory by sourcing new education clients and re-engaging lapsed accounts.
• Maintain a high standard of account management, ensuring strong relationships and excellent service at every stage.
• Grow your unique customer base through structured territory planning and proactive competitor awareness.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities from inbound leads, referrals, and self-sourced prospects.
• Consistently meet and exceed key performance indicators, including call volumes, meaningful conversations, booked meetings, and follow-ups.

Education Sales Specialist

Journalist

• We’re looking for a trainee reporter in Cambridgeshire who has what it takes to join a dynamic digital team covering breaking news, trending stories and reporting on patch. ****No day is the same in this busy news patch, where you will be part of a dedicated team setting the agenda with fast-paced, accurate responses to the news that truly matters to our audiences.****You will be supported by the Cambridgeshire editors and other reporters, given training to qualify as a senior reporter and progress within the company.****The role will be a hybrid mix of office working, patch work and home working, and your work will also contribute to the weekly editions of our newspapers covering stories across Huntingdonshire and Ely.

Trainee Reporter

• Drive consultative B2B sales via phone, video, and face-to-face meetings.
• Sell tailored digital solutions including paid social, Google Ads, content marketing, video, and websites.
• Manage your pipeline effectively, sourcing new opportunities and re-engaging lapsed clients.
• Build strong relationships and deliver campaigns that generate measurable results.
• Conduct research into client businesses and market trends to identify growth opportunities.

Business Sales Consultant

• Spend time out in the local communities to understand what matters to our audiences and building relationships.
• Someone adept at using social media, both to help gather the news and to share it.
• Tell the stories our audiences care about - from covering crime, courts and local politics to powerful human interest pieces and championing the best of our local communities.
• Hybrid role; a combination of home working, a significant amount of reporting from out on patch in **Leigh and St Helens**, and time spent in the regional newsroom in **Warrington**.

Reporter

• - Cover local councils and committees across Oxfordshire, including evening meetings
• - Break exclusive and agenda‑setting stories on local government, policy, spending and community issues
• - Produce accurate, high‑quality copy suitable for publication across multiple Newsquest titles and BBC partner outlets
• - Build strong contacts within local authorities, political groups and community organisations
• - Work collaboratively with the BBC Local Democracy Reporting Service and the wider Newsquest editorial teams
• - Deliver content that drives engagement, subscriptions and readership growth
• - Uphold industry‑leading standards of accuracy, fairness, impartiality and ethical journalism

Local Democracy Reporter

• Produce accurate, informative daily news content to tight deadlines.
• Write exclusive stories, analysis features and interviews.
• Contribute both on-diary and off-diary content ideas.
• Post content across relevant social media channels.
• Set up and send email newsletters when required.
• Support event coverage, including webinars, conferences and award reporting.
• Actively participate in weekly content meetings with ideas and updates.
• Represent Insurance Times professionally at external industry events.
• Build and maintain a strong network of industry contacts, including spokespeople and PRs.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across editorial, events, research, subscriptions and commercial.
• Work flexibly when needed and attend relevant industry events.

Manager

• Analyse and optimise engagement
• Use a wealth of cutting-edge platforms, tools and analytics to identify posts generating high engagement and replicate successful approaches across pages.
• Replicate and scale best performers
• Identify top-performing posts and content types from one title and adapt them for others across the Newsquest network.
• Manage video content
• Optimise and post high-engagement video content from our websites to social platforms
• Revenue tracking and reporting
• Track and analyse our social revenue monthly, sharing insights and best practices to increase revenue group-wide.
• Influence
• Work with newsrooms across the country to help them get the best out of monetisation schemes in addition to the active, practical steps taken in this role to generate revenue
• Explore cross-platform monetisation
• Research, test and implement monetisation models on all social platforms to diversify and futureproof Newsquest’s social revenue streams

Social Monetisation Manager

• Identify and win new business by proactively reaching out to potential clients across your region using cold calling and outbound sales techniques.
• Work to clear financial targets and KPIs, consistently striving to exceed monthly revenue goals and performance benchmarks.
• Manage and grow existing client accounts, providing ongoing support, identifying upsell opportunities, and increasing client spend through strategic recommendations.
• Develop and manage a robust sales pipeline, using a consultative approach to move prospects through the sales cycle.
• Build long-term relationships with clients by providing expert advice, excellent service, and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure smooth onboarding and campaign delivery for new clients.
• Stay informed on industry trends, competitor activity, and LOCALiQ’s evolving product suite to maintain a competitive edge.
• Represent LOCALiQ with professionalism and credibility, acting as a trusted ambassador for our regional news brands.

Outside Sales Representative

• - Work with an AI system to help write news articles, while also utilising your journalism skills to maintain the quality and authenticity of the content
• - Ensure that all content produced meets legal and ethical standards, including those related to media law, plagiarism, privacy, and accuracy
• - Source stories and ideas from a range of sources, proactively building and refining a news list of high-quality, engaging digital content
• - Identify and deliver areas to expand our coverage into, as well as the topics and story types that will resonate
• - Efficiently upload and manage stories, using time-saving AI tools and techniques to ensure a seamless process without compromising the quality of the content
• - Contribute to the development of AI technology by monitoring the performance of AI-generated content and identifying areas for improvement
• - Work closely with our existing editorial teams to help integrate selected AI-generated content into a variety of newsrooms
• - Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices related to AI and journalism
• - Meet page view targets

Business Development Rep

• Drive business-to-business sales through a mix of telephone, video, and face-to-face meetings with prospective clients across your territory.
• Deliver consultative selling by identifying customer needs through effective questioning and discovery, then recommending the most suitable digitally-led solutions.
• Conduct thorough research into each client’s business or industry vertical to ensure tailored and relevant proposals.
• Maximise marketing spend within your category or territory by continuously sourcing new and lapsed business opportunities.
• Maintain a high standard of account management, ensuring strong customer relationships and excellent service at every stage.
• Grow your unique customer base through strategic territory planning and proactive competitor awareness.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities from a variety of sources, including inbound leads, referrals, and self-sourced prospects.
• Consistently meet and exceed key performance indicators (KPIs), including call volumes, meaningful conversations, booked meetings, and timely follow-ups.

Digital Sales Consultant

Telesales Executive

Retail Sales Manager

SEO Account Manager

Education Sales Specialist

Trainee Reporter

Business Sales Consultant

Reporter

Local Democracy Reporter

Reporter

Social Monetisation Manager

Outside Sales Representative

Outside Sales Representative

Reporter

Business Development Executive