UK Publisher Range Executive

About the Role

Do you have a sharp eye for detail and a knack for staying organised? Ready to help shape how top magazines connect with readers across the UK?

This could be the perfect role for you. Join a collaborative, data-led team that works closely with leading publishers and retailers to deliver expertly curated magazine ranges, designed to inform, entertain, and inspire audiences every single day

 This is your chance to learn new skills, build new relationships, and be part of a team that helps unlock distribution opportunities.

Job Opportunity

As the UK Publisher Range Executive, you’ll play a key role in supporting our publisher facing teams to increase their retail footprint and drive sales performance. Working closely with your line manager and the wider UK Publisher Range & Global Insight team, you’ll help manage the range review process and ensure smooth, efficient communication between publishers and retail partners. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support the coordination of the Range Review process across all retailers, helping secure strong space allocations for publishing partners and third-party clients.
• Prepare regular retail reports and documents, coordinating the flow of key title information between publishers and external retail contacts.
• Provide administrative and analytical support to the UK Publisher Range & Global Insight team, working with data from internal and external sources to create clear, user-friendly documents for circulation and newstrade managers.
• Assist in creating proposal packs for retailers, ensuring deadlines are met and materials are accurate and well presented.
• Help schedule and prepare supporting materials for range review meetings, involving circulation, retail, and category management teams.

Essential Skills

Key Skills & Attributes

• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Confident working with spreadsheets (Excel proficiency preferred)
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Clear and professional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with internal teams and external partners
• A proactive mindset with a willingness to learn and contribute

About Company

Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We’re the UK’s leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working predominantly in the exciting and diverse areas of publishing and home entertainment.

Our key clients include publishers of iconic magazine brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Choice, Heat, Top Gear, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Cosmopolitan, Empire, National Geographic and 100’s more. We also work with major film studios managing their DVD presence within the grocery retail channel and are growing our reach in categories such as books and music with further category expansions on the horizon.

As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our client’s sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met. Through our brand targeting and audience engagement agency Gold Key Media we develop sampling and marketing solutions, and we manage brand placement activities in the events, travel and hospitality sectors across the world.  

Frontline Group is owned by two of the world’s leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company (Hubert Burda Media). This will provide opportunities to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions including brand marketing, sales, analytics, insight, finance, IT services, supply chain and publishing. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of supporting and coaching our colleagues, who have then gone on to grow their career within our business.

Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.

All our roles offer an informal hybrid working option, combining in-office and remote/home working.

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DE&I

Bring ‘You’ to the interview

Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to make sure that our selection processes are transparent and fair, providing a level playing field for anyone who wants to come and work with us. Therefore, if you require any adjustments to an interview process, please feel free to get in touch with who will be happy to discuss your needs in complete confidence.

Benefits

At the Frontline Group, we offer great development opportunities, enhanced family friendly leave and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme, to name a few. 

On top of that, we also offer: 

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)  
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and income protection
• Executive coaching and mentoring available to all  
• Everyone has access to our EPIC approach to talent development
• Informal hybrid working  
• 2 paid volunteering days per annum
• Additional discretionary day and loyalty schemes
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme 
• Stuart House, Peterborough - On site gym, parking