Who Are We? 

Are Media is Australia’s leading omnichannel content company for women. Every day we influence, inform, inspire, and connect with 6 in 10 Australian women across magazine media, digital, video, social, e-commerce, customer review sites, podcasts, events and experiences.  Our brands include The Australian Women’s Weekly, Better Homes & Gardens, Woman’s Day, marie claire, TV WEEK, New Idea, Now to Love, Australian Gourmet Traveller, BEAUTY/crew and ELLE. Through our Change AREgenda we drive meaningful and positive change for women.

Are Media employs Australia’s best content creation talent and we are proud that our greatest strength is our people. 

Why Are Media?   

Join Australia’s leading content company for women and be part of an inspiring, creative and collaborative team. We offer excellent people programs including:

• A day of leave for your birthday,
• 4 days of volunteering leave each year,
• An inclusive parental leave program that supports all parents, families & carers,
• FREE digital access to all our titles, and
• Our unique Are Media Learning Academy (Digital Academy, Lunch N Learns, Mentoring and much more).    

You’re welcome in the office every day, but you have the option to work from home one day a week.

About the role

The Shopping Editor is a lead content strategy role responsible for delivering the shopping content strategy across digital brands and verticals at Are Media. Reporting into the Head of Shopping, you will be executing the digital content shopping strategy across all channels, driving and identifying opportunities to diversify revenue and collaborating with stakeholders and internal partners to develop projects that improve efficiencies and grow audiences, and help the business grow affiliate revenue and achieve yearly budget. You will be pivotal in executing the shopping content plan across the vertical structure to deliver content commerce revenue budgets. This is a senior content lead who will provide digital thought leadership and drive a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing and best practice. 

Duties

• Ideate, create, and optimise excellent, audience aligned shopping content across various channels
• Manage and execute monthly and quarterly content plans for the Shopping Content Team and home and lifestyle vertical brands, ensuring output will meet revenue targets
• Track and report on Shopping Content Team’s monthly output and revenue performance, closely monitoring successes and opportunity areas
• Edit work by Shopping Content team members across the sites, as required, to ensure quality and brand values are upheld, providing feedback and support where needed
• Liaising with key internal stakeholders to ensure seamless workflow and implementation of the monthly and quarterly content plans
• Work with the Head of Email, Social and Audience to ensure best practice is adhered to for any product, platform, and/or algorithmic updates
• Help to identify and implement (as needed) emerging or currently untapped affiliate content solutions
• Cultivate a strong data-based understanding of Are’s digital brands’ audiences, and the revenue capabilities and opportunities

Skills and experience

• Minimum 4 years’ creating content in a digital environment  
• Excellent content ideation, strategy, and output skills
• Experience with CPA and CPC affiliate network platforms and analytic tools
• Excellent understanding of SEO best practice and the current search environment
• Excellent understanding of optimising digital content for conversion
• Preferred experience with Word Press, Conductor, Power BI
• Preferred experience in and passion for the homes and lifestyle category
• Financial and commercial acumen; knowledge of affiliate revenue drivers for websites, social platforms and digital sales processes

Are Media is committed to a diverse, respectful, collaborative & inclusive workplace. We know & value the success this brings for everyone and we welcome & encourage applications from diverse backgrounds.  When you apply, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Please apply now and send your CV via the link.