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Head of Food

1 month ago


Sydney, Australia Are Media Full time

**Job no**: 499860

**Work type**: permanent full time

**Location**: Sydney

**Categories**: Publishing/ Editorial

**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).

We support flexible ways of working through our Activity Based Working (ABW) model. We encourage a balance of working in the office and remotely and we believe this enables our people to do their best work.

**About the role**

An exciting newly created role, the Head of Food is a key leadership role heading up the prestigious Are Media food division, including brands like The Australian Women’s Weekly, New Idea and Better Homes & Gardens. The key purpose of this role is to identify, ideate, manage and deliver new and existing revenue opportunities/projects for food content and assets across channels as aligned with the wider business strategy.

The Head of Food will be responsible for creating and managing schedules and workflow for Are Media food content creation projects across all platforms and brands to ensure the process is efficient and streamlined and content is created to a high standard in a timely manner.

**Duties**
- Develop and drive editorial schedules for all projects within the food division and ensure deadlines are met.
- Manage workflows including in-house and freelance resourcing across the food division and other omnichannel food projects
- Manage P+Ls and ensure revenue and costs budgets are met.
- Identify new ways of working across platforms and in collaboration with wider food teams to maximise efficiencies.
- Evolve and drive the content commerce and affiliate food strategy in line with the businesses key objectives.
- Work closely with all relevant business stakeholders to identify new revenue opportunities utilising existing and new food content/products.
- Manage food-related custom projects, including client relationship management.
- Build a lean but strong omnichannel department through upskilling team and streamlining work practices.
- Effectively manage the food content team and act as a change champion and values ambassador for the team.
- Review/oversee all content created by the food division and ensure standards and brand values are upheld.
- Engage, brief and direct recipe developers, shoot/video teams etc (internal & external) as required.
- Collaborate with the Digital Managing Editor, and Video team to create and drive an effective video strategy across the vertical.

**Skills and experience**
- 8+ years’ experience in consumer-focused food content creation/publishing.
- Creative thinker who can identify and execute new ideas involving various stakeholders
- Strong planning and organisational skills.
- A strategic mindset with a strong revenue/profit focus
- Deadline management experience and aptitude
- Strong leadership and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Omnichannel mindset with proven experience working on and creating in digital/social food environments.
- Adaptive, self-aware, nimble to shift new verticalizations and ways of working
- Proven track record as an effective people leader
- Understanding of content commerce models in the food space

**Please and send your CV via the link.**

**Advertised**: 01 Mar 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 22 Mar 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time


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