Schwartz Media is seeking a self-motivated and highly efficient marketing specialist to join its commercial team on a temporary contract. Working across Schwartz Media's suite of publications, including The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and Australian Foreign Affairs, the marketing specialist will be responsible for delivering work across all stages of the marketing funnel with a particular focus on conversions and retention.
Purpose of the role
The successful candidate will work closely with the CEO/editor in chief, audience editor, marketing assistant, designer, subscriptions team and broader editorial team to deliver Schwartz Media's strategy to grow reader revenue, increase engagement among subscribers and awareness among target audiences.
The successful candidate will hold an executional role, responsible for delivering activity set in the 2026 marketing and audience strategy. This includes implementing campaigns end to end, as well as providing insights, learnings and performance reporting during and after each campaign.
The candidate will be a proactive and highly organised individual who can manage multiple priorities, work independently, keep campaigns on track and communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality marketing output.
The candidate will be responsible for managing a marketing assistant and provide ongoing support to ensure their continued development and success. They will also be required to keep creative tasks on track through line management of a designer. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in line managing or mentoring junior staff.
This is a part-time, temporary position to cover a period of parental leave.
Primary responsibilities will include:
* Work with the editorial and creative teams to execute marketing campaigns, ensuring campaigns are delivered on time and to a high standard
* Ensure creative briefs remain on track
* Confidence to provide proactive recommendations on improvements to marketing campaigns once live
* Confidence to provide proactive recommendations on improvements to Piano (CRM) strategies including banner and journeys to improve conversion rates
* Ability to interpret previous campaign learnings and data to inform future campaigns
* Lead third-party relationships as required by the business including with Google
* Lead always-on performance marketing output alongside the audience editor and marketing assistant
* Management of a marketing assistant
* Review marketing assistant's work including reporting, email sends, copy and creative briefs
* Provide support to the marketing assistant to ensure their continued development and success
* Management of a designer
* Support the designer to deliver creative briefs as required
Personal qualities and skills:
* Bachelor's degree in marketing
* An interest in Australian current affairs and culture, and familiarity with Schwartz Media titles
* Prior experience in the media industry will be highly regarded
* Ability to write compelling marketing copy
* Experience leading creative briefs either with internal or external design teams
* Experience developing owned channel media plans to achieve campaign objectives
* Experience working with a CRM system to build audience journeys and drive conversions – experience working with Piano would be highly regarded
* Strong communication skills, and an ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
* Highly motivated with the ability to work independently, to be proactive, and to coordinate and prioritise competing requests
* Highly organised, focused and with strong attention to detail
* Strong creative judgement
Tell us why your motivation, skills and experience make you the right fit. To apply, please send your cover letter and résumé by 11.59pm on Sunday, March 8.
We will be reviewing applications as they are received, so we encourage applicants to apply promptly.
Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term
Contract length: 8 months
Expected hours: 22.5 per week
Work Location: In person