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The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.
The role is to support our Customer Operations team, with the management of our e-commerce platform and global agent business processes, and assist the Circulation team in the creation and implementation of subscription marketing and sales campaigns and fulfilment operations.
Who we are:
The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company that exists to champion progress with customers currently spread across 159 countries and an active subscriber base of 1.2 million. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press forward.
The Finance team’s vision is to partner with the Group in driving profitable growth, through finance excellence. We support our businesses to make effective commercial and operational decisions; provide information and analysis to management and the Board to support strategic decisions; manage working capital to quickly convert profit into cash; develop and maintain a strong control environment to comply with legal, statutory and tax legislation in all territories we operate in.
With over 100 Finance professionals operating from offices in London, New York, Hong Kong & Gurugram, we are rapidly building a substantial presence in Gurugram to become our largest finance hub. You will be joining our global organisation at a pivotal moment, working with finance and business colleagues from around the globe to deliver the Finance vision.
The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight, and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.
Currently we are seeking an HR Generalist to join our London based HR team. In this role you will support the employee on-boarding process, including producing contracts, conducting pre-employment checks and running HR new joiner briefings. The HR Generalist will provide great services to our internal customers, developing trusted relationships with key stakeholders and will work with the wider team on global projects and initiatives.
How you will contribute?
- Coordinate employee right to work authorisations and manage the company sponsorship licence requirements
- Manage the authorisation and on-boarding process for agency workers and freelancers in line with the new IR35 government guidelines
- Produce contractual documentation for all employment changes (salary changes, promotions, and any contractual variations)
- Record and maintain all employee data on PeopleHub (HRIS), and on-line files to ensure records are up to date.
- Prepare reports and provide insights on employee data
- Work closely with the payroll team and communicate any salary and benefit changes to them
- Liaise with our pension provider and the payroll team to produce pension and life assurance reports
- Coordinate benefit schemes
- Provide employees with advice on all policies and HR processes
- Manage the company family friendly policies, including employee briefings and producing documentation
- Manage international mobility, including immigration
- Ensure legal compliance in all countries within the EMEA region
- Maintain employee sickness records and highlight any long term absences or patterns
- Manage the leaver process, including conducting exit interviews and provide evaluation of these interviews
- Produce employment references and other references for current and previous employees
- Take ownership of your tasks and introduce new ideas to evolve your processes and procedures
The ideal skills for this position include:
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate professionally and maintain a high level of confidentiality
- Experience of using an HRIS, preferably Sage People or something similar
- A collaborative approach to working, both internally within the team and with your business stakeholders of all levels
- Delivery of great service to your customers with it being a key focus in all that you do
- Have excellent prioritising skills and an ability to use your judgement to manage your stakeholders expectations and deliver on time
- Problem solving, you can identify issues and find solutions with an excellent attention to detail
- That you are flexible and deliver your day to day commitments without being phased by unexpected tasks which may interrupt that
- An affinity for learning, someone curious and always looking for opportunities to improve and develop
- That you are able to communicate with all levels of the business in both written and verbal form
- A flair for introducing new ideas for continuous improvement of the employee experience
- Experience working in a similar position, ideally with experience in at least one other European country
- A CIPD or equivalent qualification or be studying toward this is desirable but not essential
We have 1 Full time and one Temp (two months) roles available.
Who we are
The Economist Group is a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to intelligence platforms, conferences, films and digital editions. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.
As the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, Economist Intelligence (EIU) helps leaders prepare for opportunity, empowering them to act with confidence when making strategic decisions. The EIU is the global standard in providing quality, actionable intelligence to the public and private sector, assessing issues that impact the marketplace for over two hundred countries. The business has a large subscription client base, receiving economic, political and industry analysis through our intelligence platform Viewpoint.
Headquartered in London, The Economist Group has offices and people across the globe, and is valued by its customers for its world-class insights and rigorous analysis. We value individuals who think differently and can challenge the status quo.
What we’re looking for
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join The Economist Group’s Business Analysis and Change team.
This role will be focused on a transformation programme to replace our legacy content creation tools, which will allow our content and data to be showcased in more engaging ways and create a platform for the development of new products and services for clients.
The project is split into three key phases. Design: to define our 'to be' templates, metadata schema and workflow requirements. Build: with an internal team and the vendor, implement their SaaS platform with customisations to support EIU specific scheduling and workflow integrations. Migration: Content migrated and old systems decommissioned.
This role will be working from the beginning to understand the current landscape of business and editorial processes and systems that produce our content. Working with a Product manager and the involved teams to identify current challenges and problems and providing analysis around dependencies, inefficiencies that will feed the future states definition. A level of system analysis will be required in this role so the successful candidate will be used to working with and assessing asset structures, data flows and system capabilities to determine how they can be best used to support the future state.
Activities will range from discovery analysis to framing backlogs and supporting delivery phases. It will include feasibility & scope assessments to ensure business and editorial outcomes are being met during times of complexity across dual platforms. The successful candidate will be partnering with a Product manager and a Change Lead, with a focus to deliver effective value and change.
We are looking for a dynamic individual to head our Subscription Business. The person will be responsible for proactively growing our consumer subscriptions, across all APAC markets by optimising the conversion funnel and the customer life cycle. This role will set the go forward strategy and be accountable for the execution of the strategy to deliver net subscriber growth, revenue growth, and lifetime value. The role will drive the customer life cycle of the digital subscriptions business in cross-functional cooperation with Product, Marketing, Retention, and Partnerships. This role will have a close partnership with the Senior Manager - Product Marketing, Head of Performance and Optimisation, Head of Campaigns, Audience Prospecting and Conversion Directors and their respective teams. The role will report directly to the SVP, Asia Pacific.
The Head of Customer Life Cycle / Growth Marketing will be responsible for developing and executing our growth strategy, encompassing both customer acquisition and retention marketing. You will help build and drive efficiency and effectiveness of the customer funnel by setting the roadmap and through constant testing.
We’re looking for someone who has a growth mindset, can operate with a sense of urgency and purpose, and who will roll up their sleeves to get the job done. The right candidate will have proven performance marketing experience and the technical and analytical know-how to derive hypotheses, test theories, and deliver results.
At The Economist Group, we champion progress, by helping people understand and tackle the critical challenges facing the world. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is a world leader in global business intelligence. We help businesses, the financial sector and governments to understand how the world is changing and how that creates opportunities to be seized and risks to be managed. At our heart is a 50 year forward look, a global forecast of the majority of the world’s economies, we seek to analyse the future and deliver that insight through multiple channels and insights, allowing our clients to take better trading, investment and policy decisions. We’re changing, embedding alternate data sources such as GPS and satellite data into our forecasting, products will increasingly be tailored to individual clients, driven by some of the most innovative data in the market. A highly collaborative team of Product Managers, Customer Experience and Product Engineering is being created with a focus on creating business and customer value driven by real time analytics alongside our traditional products.
Join us, to engineer innovative products that bring insight and analysis to global leaders in business and government. Whether building new Economist Intelligence Unit products, ideating mobile apps that deliver personalised content, or evolving our flagship website, economist.com, you will help transform how we acquire, convert, engage and retain our 1.2 million subscribers.
We are developing a world-class enablement team and have an exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us build functional systems that improve our customer experience. The enablement team is responsible for driving DevOps across all of our product engineering teams. As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will partner with Senior Management to embed cloud technology and best practice; transforming the capabilities and efficiency of product engineering teams within our organisation.
The engineering division has experienced unprecedented growth over the last 18 months, and as a result we’re looking for a DevOps specialist who is eager to develop their skills and career. We have a Gurugram in HQ, which is used for collaborating and connecting in-person–although many of our tech roles operate on a flexible “remote first” policy.
We are seeking a head of Europe programming for the Economist Impact Custom Events business in the region to lead the development and delivery of bespoke events for a one-year maternity cover contract. The role will work closely with commercial teams to drive the growth of the regional portfolio, manage a team of programme editors and executives to develop original programme ideas, and ensure the high-quality delivery of client-focused content.
The Economist Group is a global media company with a long-standing reputation built on trust and rigour in both the B2C and B2B markets. Dedicated to the pursuit of progress -- for individuals, companies and the world – we have a footprint on five continents. We are in the midst of a major company transformation that sees us working together differently, launching new products, services and experiences and rolling out new brands. This is an exciting time to join and help us shape the future.
Currently, we are looking for a strategic, data-driven and digitally savvy marketing leader to lead the Performance media function within the Asia team. The role, working alongside key stakeholders in the global product marketing, performance marketing, and product and data teams, will be responsible for overall Performance media activation in Asia.
In addition, you will work on a daily basis with Media agencies and Senior Marketing Executives to ensure that:
- They are constantly innovating and seeking out new marketing opportunities
- They are working as closely as possible with other paid and owned channel owners
- They are benefiting from the highest level of service from the Media Agency
- Direct Response: deliver efficient last-click subscription starts for The Economist and new users across all paid ads platforms
- Audience development: identify and implement a combination of timely and evergreen content to increase the number of fans across all platforms.
The Economist Group is a global media company with a long-standing reputation built on trust and rigour in both the B2C and B2B markets. Dedicated to the pursuit of progress -- for individuals, companies and the world – we have a footprint on five continents. We are in the midst of a major company transformation that sees us working together differently, launching new products, services and experiences and rolling out new brands. This is an exciting time to join and help us shape the future.
Currently, we are looking for a Marketing Executive, Product Marketing.The role will report to our Senior Marketing Manager and will be responsible for delivering acquisition marketing activities to new audiences across our owned platforms; i.e our website (economist.com) and apps within the Asia team. The role, working alongside key stakeholders in the global product marketing, performance marketing, and product and data teams, will be responsible for overall Performance media activation in Asia.
We are currently looking for a Senior Partnership Strategist to help Economist Impact win proposals that make a positive impact in the world and align with our mission of progress specifically in the categories of Sustainability, Global Health and New Globalisation. The role reports into Economist Impact’s Head of Partnership Strategy and Development.
The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company that exists to champion progress. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press forward.
The Economist’s technology team’s vision is to create the world's leading digital newspaper, providing all the important journalism our Editorial team produces to a global audience, currently spread across 159 countries with an active subscriber base of 1.1 million. As a technology and data driven business we recognise the key role our outstanding people play in helping us achieve our goal.
Currently we are looking for a Data Operations Analyst who will support the day-to-day requests of our integrated automation systems and database. Our database activities support the data and deployment needs of teams focused on events, subscriptions and marketing engagement (newsletters, lead generation mechanisms, survey's etc.).
The position will report into the Data Operations Team Lead. The successful candidate will provide support to database constituents worldwide. The candidate will provide data upload and reporting insights, implementation of activities against data pulls, and help improve the quality of customer data.
The role will cover requirements from the group globally, particularly requests from London. As such, while the role is based on local hours (9:00-5:30pm in Gurgaon) some flexibility will be required to cover day-to-day contact with London and occasional meetings with other global offices.
The Economist Groupis the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to conferences and electronic services. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world.
Sustainability, with a focus on the environmental component, is an initiative for The Economist Group which requires global operational and strategy management spanning all geographies and business units of the organisation.
The Economist Group has established a strategy of GHG emissions reduction of 25% by 2025. It is working towards a goal of reducing emissions by 50% and net zero by 2030. Its environmental sustainability strategy is embedded into the fabric of the organisation’s growth strategy and operations. From 2023, this new full-time role of Group Sustainability Data Analyst will be working together with the SVP Sustainability to support TEG’s sustainability reporting, including our annual sustainability report, quarterly emissions reporting, environmental disclosures, such as CDP and TCFD, investor reporting, and obligations to comply with reporting schemes such as the UK Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) and the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR). The role will work with colleagues to gather financial and non-financial data across the business, and help find ways to improve environmental performance.
The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company that exists to champion progress with customers currently spread across 159 countries and an active subscriber base of 1.2 million. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press forward.
We are recruiting a Receptionist / Admin Executive to join the Facilities team and provide professional office support to all business units in our Hong Kong office.
The Economist is looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer to join our flagship mobile app engineering team.
We are investing in our mobile app experience as an essential window into our outstanding content, text and audio. We’re growing our engineering team to help our users find and read more of our content, to keep coming back and to increase customer loyalty.
You’ll work in an agile environment, releasing quickly and often to the app stores to ensure quick feedback loops around the success or not of our features and experiments.
The Economist mobile apps team currently maintains 2 production apps - The Economist (Core) and Espresso from The Economist (Espresso). The team is made up of 5 cross-functional squads who each own different parts of the codebase. A squad comprises an Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Delivery Lead, UX Designer, 3-5 Engineers and 2 QA Engineers. We currently use Scrum, but aren’t afraid of trying new ways of working to see if they work better for us. Our apps are written in React Native using Typescript, but we continually assess whether native solutions written in Swift or Kotlin would be appropriate for the feature under development.
What we’re offering you
- Remote working encouraged - we’ll supply you with the kit you need
- Flexible working hours
- Bonus scheme
- Private health care and dental plans, generous pension plan
- Annual wellbeing days and Summer 4 day week trial
- Conferences and learning resources
- 10% time and hackathons
- Full Economist.com subscription
What will you experience
At The Economist we believe having the right work-life balance is super important; striking balance between your personal and professional life is critical to wellbeing and happiness. We offer flexible working and have recently shifted to a 'remote first' working policy with a minimum expectation of coming to the office two days a month, however you can come in more often if you wish to.The Engineering team’s office is in central Birmingham, just a five minute walk from New Street Station and minutes from Snow Hill Station.
This is the time to be joining a profitable, responsible business with a brand and culture that you can be proud of and with every opportunity to deliver success for the Group and yourself.
Location
This role is available in our central Birmingham office, just a 5 min walk from New Street Station and 1 min walk from Snow Hill Station.
As the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) helps leaders prepare for opportunity, empowering them to act with confidence when making strategic decisions. The EIU is the global standard in providing high quality, actionable intelligence to the public and private sector, assessing issues that impact the businesses in more
than two hundred countries.
We are seeking ambitious sales ‘game changers‘ to help us grow our footprint and client base across the North American markets. You will be a current top performer, ready to take the next step in your career and join a global leader in its field, representing a truly unique brand. You will join us ready to unleash your impressive set of commercial skills to achieve business and
personal success. You will have a deeply inquisitive mind, a well-honed consultative approach to selling and unquenchable thirst for success to sell our portfolio of macro-economic and political solutions to financial services, corporate, government, professional services and consulting sectors.
You will be a highly driven, self-starting and accomplished business development manager with excellent presentations skills, strong consultative sales ability and an excellent understanding of B2B subscription businesses. Your natural instinct to secure business will be key to success in this role.
We are looking for individuals who thrive in relentlessly pursuing sales success in a competitive and high profile environment. In return, we will offer you a best in class compensation package and many benefits which will
truly reward you for the success you can achieve for our business.
Who we are:
The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company who exist to champion
progress with customers currently spread across 159 countries and an active subscriber base of 1.2
million. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press
forward.
The Finance team’s vision is to partner with the Group in driving profitable growth, through finance
excellence. We support our businesses to make effective commercial and operational decisions;
provide information and analysis to management and the Board to support strategic decisions; manage
working capital to quickly convert profit into cash; develop and maintain a strong control environment to
comply with legal, statutory and tax legislation in all territories we operate in.
With over 100 Finance professionals operating from offices in London, New York, Hong Kong &
Gurugram, we are rapidly building a substantial presence in Gurugram to become our largest finance
hub. You will be joining our global organisation at a pivotal moment, working with finance and business
colleagues from around the globe to deliver the Finance vision.
The Business:
- an iconic brand with a history dating back 179 years
- a truly global business with customers in over 150 countries
- a unique combination of B2B and B2C Businesses
The Finance Team:
- be part of our Finance Transformation programme, reshaping our processes and the
technology we use
- work closely with finance and business colleagues from around the globe
- ability to influence in an organisation of 1,600 people
Who we are:
The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company that exists to champion progress with customers currently spread across 159 countries and an active subscriber base of 1.2 million. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press forward.
The Finance team’s vision is to partner with the Group in driving profitable growth, through finance excellence. We support our businesses to make effective commercial and operational decisions; provide information and analysis to management and the Board to support strategic decisions; manage working capital to quickly convert profit into cash; develop and maintain a strong control environment to comply with legal, statutory and tax legislation in all territories we operate in.
With over 100 Finance professionals operating from offices in London, New York, Hong Kong & Gurugram, we are rapidly building a substantial presence in Gurugram to become our largest finance hub. You will be joining our global organisation at a pivotal moment, working with finance and business colleagues from around the globe to deliver the Finance vision.
The Business:
- an iconic brand with a history dating back 179 years
- a truly global business with customers in over 150 countries
- a unique combination of B2B and B2C Businesses
The Finance Team:
- be part of our Finance Transformation programme, reshaping our processes and the technology we use
- work closely with finance and business colleagues from around the globe
- ability to influence in an organisation of 1,600 people
The role:
We are seeking a Senior Executive - Billing, whose main purpose will be to:
- Raise and sending invoices
- Support Sales, Credit Control teams and senior management by ensuring that revenue and invoices are accurate and update while procedures and controls are adhered to
The role will cover requirements from the group globally. As such, while the role is based on local hours (9:00-5:30pm in Gurugram) some flexibility will be required to cover day-to-day contact with Asia and London teams and occasional meetings with other global offices.
Who we are:
The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company that exists to champion progress with customers currently spread across 159 countries and an active subscriber base of 1.2 million. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press forward.
The Finance team’s vision is to partner with the Group in driving profitable growth, through finance excellence. We support our businesses to make effective commercial and operational decisions; provide information and analysis to management and the Board to support strategic decisions; manage working capital to quickly convert profit into cash; develop and maintain a strong control environment to comply with legal, statutory and tax legislation in all territories we operate in.
With over 100 Finance professionals operating from offices in London, New York, Hong Kong & Gurugram, we are rapidly building a substantial presence in Gurugram to become our largest finance hub. You will be joining our global organisation at a pivotal moment, working with finance and business colleagues from around the globe to deliver the Finance vision.
The Economist Group is a global media company with a long-standing reputation built on trust and rigour in both the B2C and B2B markets. Dedicated to the pursuit of progress -- for individuals, companies and the world – we have a footprint on five continents. We are in the midst of a major company transformation that sees us working together differently, launching new products, services and experiences and rolling out new brands. This is an exciting time to join and help us shape the future.
Currently we are looking for a strategic, data-driven and digital savvy marketing leader to lead the product marketing and audience development function within the Asia team. The role, working alongside key stakeholders in the global product marketing, performance marketing, product and data teams, will be responsible for optimising our products (website, app, newsletters and podcasts), making best use of marketing technologies (Piano, SFMC, Optimisely) and partnering with key platforms (Apple and Google) to ensure we maximise content engagement, registrations and subscriptions to both The Economist and our newest app, Espresso.
The Economist is looking for a dynamic leader to drive its partnerships motion in APAC. This role, in collaboration with the SVP for the region, will set the go forward strategy for the region overall and be independently responsible for driving channel, distribution, strategic and enterprise partnerships. This role will function collaboratively with the global partnerships and group subscriptions team and will report directly to the SVP, Asia Pacific.
The Head of Partnerships will be responsible for identifying, developing and managing partnerships for a Media Publishing business. This role will require a strategic mindset, strong relationship building skills, and a keen understanding of the media industry. The Head of Partnerships will work closely with other departments to create and execute partnership strategies that align with the company's goals and objectives.