(Senior) Business Manager

Axel Springer's BOOK family, with its five online magazines, reaches over 17 million monthly visits. We seek a (Senior) Business Manager for our Product and Business Management team to drive the strategic development of TRAVELBOOK. This role involves managing partnerships, developing marketing concepts, and overseeing initiatives to boost reach and revenue. The ideal candidate will work in interdisciplinary teams, make data-based decisions, and contribute to cross-vertical projects, shaping the future of digital journalism.

Must Have

• Responsible for the further development of TRAVELBOOK
• Manage strategic partnership concepts, including evaluation and negotiation
• Act as a stakeholder in interdisciplinary teams (editorial, marketing, tech)
• Develop and implement marketing concepts and cooperation ideas
• Steer the development and implementation of measures to expand and increase the reach of TRAVELBOOK
• Conceive, plan, implement, monitor, and control marketing activities
• Monitor company goals, plan and control revenue, profit, and reach forecasts
• Create business plans and decision templates for future projects
• Completed degree in Business Administration, Media Management, Digital Media, Business Informatics, or comparable
• Affinity for travel topics combined with experience as Business Development or Project Manager for digital products
• Experience with partner cooperations and marketing of content offers
• Analytical skills and data-based decision-making, especially for performance KPIs
• Fluent in German and English
• Proficient in AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT), Microsoft 365, and common tracking tools

Good to Have

• Inventiveness and creativity in conception
• Enjoy developing further and learning new things in a team

Perks & Benefits

• Diverse learning content and offers for personal development
• Free breakfast snack and lunch in our Kiez restaurant
• 30 days of vacation
• State-of-the-art offices, hardware, software, and workspaces, including MacBook & iPhone for private use
• Diverse health offers: sports courses (Wellhub), preventive medical check-ups, professional coaching (pme Familienservice)
• Discounts: Deutschlandticket, JobRad, various online shops, selection of insurances, and VwL subsidy
• Collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile work
• Initially a two-year fixed-term position (extension aimed for)

Since 2011, the BOOK family has been growing steadily. We now reach over 17 million monthly visits with our five online magazines TRAVELBOOK, TECHBOOK, FITBOOK, myHOMEBOOK, and PETBOOK. Our mission: high-quality journalism that inspires and offers practical value.

We are looking for people who want to shape the future of journalism in the digital media world with creativity and passion. Open to new ideas? Courageous, innovation-driven, and ready to actively participate in changes? We are looking for support for our Product and Business Management team!

We believe in the future of journalism as a business model and invest in forward-looking technologies. Our five Essentials are the values that connect us and our compass in our commitment to freedom.

What you will move with us:

• You are responsible for the further development of TRAVELBOOK and take on strategic partnership concepts, including evaluation and negotiation, and shape the relationship with the cooperation partner.
• You are a stakeholder for working in interdisciplinary teams with editorial, marketing, and tech.
• You are responsible for the development and implementation of marketing concepts and cooperation ideas in collaboration with the Sales and Business Development teams.
• You manage the development and implementation of measures to expand and increase the reach of TRAVELBOOK.
• You conceptualize, plan, and implement marketing activities, monitor, and control their success.
• You keep company goals in mind, plan and control revenue, profit, and reach forecasts, create business plans and decision templates for future projects.
• In the Business Management team, you occasionally support other verticals (e.g., TECHBOOK, FITBOOK, myHOMEBOOK, PETBOOK, COMPUTERBILD.de) and take on cross-cutting projects for all BOOKs and COMPUTERBILD.de, for example B2C or B2B events.

What you bring:

• You have a completed degree in Business Administration, Media Management, Digital Media, Business Informatics, or a comparable education.
• You have been able to combine your affinity for travel topics with experience as a Business Development or Project Manager for digital products.
• You bring experience with partner cooperations and marketing of content offers and convince with your inventiveness and creativity in conception.
• With your understanding of numbers, you work analytically and make data-based decisions, especially when evaluating performance KPIs.
• You enjoy developing further and learning new things in a team.
• You communicate fluently in German and English and are proficient in using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT), Microsoft 365, and common tracking tools.

What we offer:

• Never stop learning! Use our diverse learning content and offers for your personal development.
• Our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, a free lunch in our Kiez restaurant.
• 30 days of vacation.
• State-of-the-art offices, from hardware to software to the design of workspaces - including MacBook & iPhone, which can also be used privately.
• Diverse health offers for all life situations: from sports courses (Wellhub), to preventive medical check-ups, to professional coaching with renowned partners (pme Familienservice).
• Your discounts: Deutschlandticket, JobRad, various online shops, selection of insurances, and VwL-Zuschuss.
• Collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile work.
• We offer you an initially fixed-term position for two years, part-time or full-time; an extension is sought.

BILD is Germany's largest media brand and offers outstanding digital and print journalism around the clock with news, politics, entertainment, sports, and advice. The BILD group includes BILD, BILD am SONNTAG, B.Z., SPORT BILD, AUTO BILD, BOOK-Family, as well as Axel Springer Regio and the Axel Springer Academy within Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH.

BILD, like BUSINESS INSIDER, MORNING BREW, POLITICO, and WELT, belongs to Axel Springer, a transatlantic family-owned media company with locations in Berlin and New York. The portfolio is supplemented by the marketing companies Awin, Bonial, and Idealo, as well as the digital market research institute Emarketer. With more than 10,000 employees, Axel Springer is active in over 25 countries.

Questions and answers about the application process

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To facilitate readability, we limit ourselves to masculine designations in the text. Nevertheless, diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, worldview, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity.

Information on the severely disabled representation at Axel Springer can be found here: career.axelspringer.com/de/ksbv

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2673S) is: Marcel Burmester #LI-MB2