About the Company

The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., is a global multi-brand media and marketing company that educates, entertains and connects audiences around the world. With offices in 44 countries, it markets books, magazines, and educational, music and video products that reach a customer base of 100 million households in 78 countries. It publishes 94 magazines, including 50 editions of Reader’s Digest, the world’s largest-circulation magazine, operates 65 branded websites generating 22 million unique visitors per month, and sells approximately 68 million books, music and video products across the world each year. Its global headquarters are in Pleasantville, N.Y.

Position Title: Research Manager

Location: New York, NY, US

Job Description:
• Perform in-depth and timely fact-checking of magazine content. Responsible for ensuring accuracy from approved edit of manuscript through the final proof stage.
• Recruit, schedule, and supervise freelance fact-checkers as needed
• Work closely with story editors, copy editors, designers, and legal department to provide correct and clear solutions to any fact problems
• Check that illustrations and captions are correct
• Maintain standards and procedures guide
• Process invoices
Required Experience:
• Excellent journalistic judgment and attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to prioritize and manage various simultaneous assignments while maintaining high quality work within a fast-paced, high-pressure, high-volume, multitasking, deadline-driven environment
• Possess strong interviewing, oral and written communication skills
• Possess impeccable analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Candidate must have experience dealing with legally sensitive and controversial content
• Ability to work well with others and communicate effectively
• Flexibility and adaptable to change; positive attitude
• Inquisitive/critical thinker who is graciously persistent with staff and sources.
• Knowledge of fact-checking procedures and acceptable sources
• Working knowledge of InCopy, InDesign and K4 desired
Reader’s Digest offers excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities. Since each of our individual businesses has its own unique set of policies, features and benefits, we encourage you to visit the company website for the position of interest.

To apply to this opportunity, please visit our career website: www.rd.com/careers and reference job posting number 4507.

Reader’s Digest is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.

Sr. Merchandising Manager at Seventeen!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The below are principally associated with Fashion & Retail clients

Brainstorms added value ideas and writes proposals for Fashion & Retail accounts (and other categories as required)
Develops ideas for new, multi-advertiser programs, including developing budgets, writing sell sheets, etc.
Attends sales calls to present above-referenced programs to clients and agencies
Captains execution of ongoing, multi-advertiser programs (e.g., 17U)
Works with Seventeen’s Editorial Fashion Department to translate trends for client fashion show merchandise selection
Travels extensively nationwide to host Seventeen events on-stage, overseeing all on-site event details
Makes media appearances representing Seventeen and clients
Manages day-to-day requests from Sales Staff (client history, proposal revisions, photo/documentation presentations, etc.).
Captains execution of high-profile/high-revenue clients (e.g., Macy’s, JCPenney, Nike, Nordstrom, etc.)
Trains Merchandising Associate on event planning, budgeting, hosting, etc.
Handles all aspects of Shop-n-Style signature BTS program, including national print elements, day-of client events, concert, budget, etc.
Plans photo shoots for custom creative units
Stays current on potential event talent and negotiates all talent contracts
Assists Associate Publisher/Marketing in managing department workflow while Fashion Merchandising Director is on Maternity Leave
Manages project budgets and timelines
Strong communications skills (writing and presenting), with the ability engage/excite a crowd when on-stage
Extremely creative and quick to generate ideas
Clear understanding of and affinity for Teen market
Must work well under time pressures, be organized and able to juggle multiple projects simultaneously
Fluency in Word, Excel, Powerpoint; familiarity with InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

To apply, please go to hearstcareers.silkroad.com and upload your resume.

The Vibe Lifestyle Network is looking for a highly motivated and creative graphic designer to join our Sales & Marketing Design Team. Be a part of our in-house advertising/design group, responsible for innovative marketing programs, new sales concepts and promotions.

Core Responsibilities: Design concepts for integrated sales decks, presentations, and in-book and online packages (including web pages/promotions, print and on-line advertorial sections, micro-sites, and other graphics). Code and implement landing pages and custom digital ad units.

Designer will work directly with marketing and sales teams and must be able to communicate effectively, work in a high paced environment within tight deadlines and produce quality work with accuracy and precision. Designer will reports directly to Marketing Director.

Designer will also occasionally work with vendors such as printers, programmers, developers and/or other technicians to implement projects.

Fluent use of Adobe Creative Suite (In Design, Illustrator, Flash, and Photoshop) and Microsoft PowerPoint is a must.
Knowledge of Urban Music & Culture is a must!

Please be prepared to share your portfolio of work.

Send all resumes to careers@vibe.com.

About the Company

The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., is a global multi-brand media and marketing company that educates, entertains and connects audiences around the world. With offices in 44 countries, it markets books, magazines, and educational, music and video products that reach a customer base of 100 million households in 78 countries. It publishes 94 magazines, including 50 editions of Reader’s Digest, the world’s largest-circulation magazine, operates 65 branded websites generating 22 million unique visitors per month, and sells approximately 68 million books, music and video products across the world each year. Its global headquarters are in Pleasantville, N.Y.

Position Title: Integrated Marketing (Temporary)

Location: New York, NY, US

Job Description:
NA Affinities Integrated group (Every Day with Rachael Ray, Allrecipes.com, Taste of Home, Fresh Home) is looking for a senior level integrated marketing professional who can handle everything from ideation to proposal writing and execution. This job allows for high-level creative thinking and idea generation for corporate advertisers looking for integrated marketing programs with print, digital and experiential elements.
• Program Development – Candidate will be responsible for coming up with ideas and contributing to brainstorm sessions and then securing brand data; pricing information; and specific program descriptions from internal personnel and synthesizing that data in a timely manner to write up the program. Elements of the big ideas could include print elements from the magazines (could be custom content, could be a high impact never been done before unit in magazine or edit integration), digital elements (sponsorships, ad buys, custom built digital platforms), and experiential elements (events, retail, press stunts).
• Partnership Development – Beginning to develop strategic partnerships that can be used in future programs is important as this person expands their database of contacts and explores partnership opportunities.
• Creative Proposal Writing – Each program must be written to illuminate and sell the idea conceptually and through program details. Creative writing skills are important to bring to life the idea through examples of the type of content that will be created through the program. Each proposal begins with slides that position our brands with syndicated target research to satisfy a client’s challenge and set up the concept.
• Client Interaction/Account Management – Work with clients to articulate our ideas and instill confidence during both the sell-in and execution process.
• Execution – Bring a program (in whole or in parts) to life once it is bought ensuring that the client’s brand, our brands and the program are properly represented in print, online and through experiential components. Managing production teams, fulfillment companies and internal personnel to ensure the timely delivery of assets and working with clients to obtain approvals. Creating detailed timelines and budgets and managing those throughout the execution are important.

Required Experience:
Candidate must be strategic and able to marry creative thinking with tactical execution. Knowledge of print, digital and events is a plus and attention to detail is necessary to manage the execution from timelines to budgets. The candidate must be able to articulate their ideas both in writing and in person when communicating with clients.
Reader’s Digest offers excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities. Since each of our individual businesses has its own unique set of policies, features and benefits, we encourage you to visit the company website for the position of interest.

To apply to this opportunity, please visit our career website: www.rd.com/careers and reference job posting number 4512.

Reader’s Digest is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.

About the Company

The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., is a global multi-brand media and marketing company that educates, entertains and connects audiences around the world. With offices in 44 countries, it markets books, magazines, and educational, music and video products that reach a customer base of 100 million households in 78 countries. It publishes 94 magazines, including 50 editions of Reader’s Digest, the world’s largest-circulation magazine, operates 65 branded websites generating 22 million unique visitors per month, and sells approximately 68 million books, music and video products across the world each year. Its global headquarters are in Pleasantville, N.Y.

Position Title: Manager, Marketing Intelligence

Location: New York, NY, US

Job Description:
The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong analytical skills who loves working with data and is passionate about developing creative, research-driven marketing insights for sales, clients and high-level publishers and management. Must be flexible, have great attention to detail, handle multiple tasks and priorities, and work well both independently and collaboratively.
Manage and analyze research data to support and augment advertising sales, document print and digital advertising effectiveness and provide strategic marketing research insights. Proactive and efficient customer service is essential and must be a continual focus.
• Coordinate between sales force and research department to ensure efficient turnaround on all sales and marketing requests
• Manage high-priority reader panel research projects from inception to fieldwork and through execution
• Analyze and present relevant research projects to top management and sales.
• Create compelling marketing insights, stories and spins of research data
• Process, analyze and trend all relevant syndicated media research and market studies
• Develop relevant and opportunistic prototypes on an as-needed and anticipatory basis
• Monitor and improve ongoing category and competitive presentation deliverables
• Orchestrate ROI, accountability and value-added research on both an opportunistic and as-needed basis
• Pursue new developments in media research

Required Experience:
• 5-7 years in magazine/media research
• College-degree
• Strong analytic skills and instincts, with excellent attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to multi-task and work efficiently in a dynamic, demanding environment
Reader’s Digest offers excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities. Since each of our individual businesses has its own unique set of policies, features and benefits, we encourage you to visit the company website for the position of interest.

To apply to this opportunity, please visit our career website: www.rd.com/careers and reference job posting number 4495.

Reader’s Digest is an equal opportunity employer committed to workforce diversity.

Working Mother Media Associate Marketing Director
The Associate Marketing Director will contribute strategic thinking/planning to grow the conference and events business, Working Mother corporate marketing, workingmother.com, and Diversity Best Practices. The Associate Marketing Director will collaborate with and support the sales, conference, publications, research, and online staffs of Working Mother Media, Diversity Best Practices, and NAFE.

Responsibilities
This individual will be responsible for:
Strategy/concept development for marketing all Working Mother Media products
Writing promotional sell sheets, email blasts, power points, and other sales support materials for Diversity Best Practices, conferences and events, NAFE
Writing proposals for client corporate marketing programs
Developing and implementing social media and digital marketing strategies for conferences/events, new media, TV, diversity & inclusion membership organization
Maintaining appropriate branding across print and web
Managing designer and marketing manager

Requirements / Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Masters degree, marketing, digital marketing, communications, journalism, advertising, or PR preferred
3-5 years experience in marketing communications, business-to-business preferred
Expertise in writing sales materials for print and web
Skilled in strategic thinking
Proficiency in using social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc) for marketing purposes, business-to-business preferred
Strong writing skills, creative thinker
Able to coordinate multiple responsibilities with excellent project management/organizational skills
Team player, able to partner with marketing, sales, content, and online colleagues
Proficiency in Word, PowerPoint and Excel required. Understanding of HTML and/or InDesign preferred. Digitally inclined

Contact: Nancy.Intrator@workingmother.com

The Integrated Marketing Manager will play a key role in developing integrated marketing strategies, promotions, and programs for Bonnier Corp’s Luxury & Lifestyle Group, which includes Ski, Skiing, SNOW, Warren Miller, Nastar, SAVEUR, and Garden Design. The position combines big idea/platform creation, partnership development, proposal writing, and program execution. The position will report to the Group Creative Services Director.

Responsibilities Include:
* Big Idea Generation: Collaborate with sales/marketing team to develop and sell “big idea” opportunities.
* Proposal Development & Management: Develop integrated marketing programs, bring them to life through written proposals and execute them in-book, online, and through events.
* Client Meetings: Attend sales calls to present marketing programs/platforms and client-specific opportunities.
* Partnership Development: Research and develop relationships with marketing partners.
* Event Management: Research and secure vendors, venues, and talent; managing all aspects of an event from budget to sponsor integration.

Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree required, 3-4 years marketing/merchandising experience, preferably in media/advertising. Digital and/or event experience is required.
* Extensive experience in creating and developing integrated marketing programs and platforms.
* Must be a creative thinker, self-starter, problem solver and resourceful. Must be team player and partner to marketing & sales colleagues and management team.
* Must have strong writing skills and a background in proposal writing. Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel is required.
* Experience working on men’s magazines preferred.
* Position is full time in NYC office.

Qualified candidates should send their resume to Kris-Ann Panzella at kris.panzella@bonniercorp.com. Absolutely no phone calls.

Harrison & Shriftman Public Relations (www.hs-pr.com) is looking for outstanding FALL 2010 interns!

Harrison & Shriftman has 5 Divisions:

Fashion
Lifestyle
Marketing
Production
Event Press

We are looking for:
• A creative team player who will deliver results and “think outside of the box”
• Must be detail oriented and resourceful
• Able to multi-task and prioritize under deadlines
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong social media skills
• A solid working knowledge of Excel & PowerPoint is required
• An interest in public relations, marketing, and communications is a must
• Production interns should have an interest in set and graphic design.
• Available 4-5 days per week

Please note that the intern program is unpaid. College credit is available.

We will accept internship applications until July 31, 2010

Contact Zarah Burstein: zburstein@hs-pr.com

Please note FALL 2010 INTERN in your subject line and tell us which division you are interested in interning.

Location: New York, NY
Description: OPPORTUNITY
Health.com Integrated Solutions is a top 5 health website bringing vital health information with a human touch to online consumers. Launching in May 2008, the site has seen explosive growth and now includes RightHealth.com – a strategic partner – within its network. Combined Health.com and RightHealth.com reach over 11M monthly unique users on comScore (June 2010). Health.com is a part of the growing Health franchise including Health Magazine, Health.com, and books such as the new launch of Carblover’s Diet. In total, the franchise reaches 20M+ consumers monthly across print, digital, and social networking platforms.

Opportunity for an experienced and strategic account management professional who can execute key digital media planning, yield management, and ad product development activities including pricing, inventory management, performance reporting and project management. Additionally, this person will manage relationships with internal teams for post-sales campaign implementation and optimization.

RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to:
Lead media planning process and partner with Health franchise Marketing Director to integrate media plans into RFP responses.
Develop efficient and effective pricing models based on quarterly analysis of supply and demand, maintain the rate card, and price production costs for all inventory across the site.
Create efficient working models to project inventory avails and maintain an inventory reservation system.
Work closely with the Time Inc Ad Operations team to plan, launch and successfully traffic, manage, monitor, and optimize campaigns for each client on a day-to-day basis.
Coordinate with Health.com management and edit production teams to ensure proper planning and scheduling of ad-supported online packages.
Manage and update performance and pipeline reports.
Daily analysis of ad delivery and campaign reports with proactive optimization recommendations.
Coordinate with Health.com Audience Development and Edit teams daily to deliver advertiser campaigns.
Lead ad sales product development process in collaboration with the product, edit, and tech teams.
Develop and oversee production of custom units and products, and other non-standard advertising programs for clients. Bid these projects out to internal and external vendors for both creative and/or production.
Execute Health Magazine digital marketing efforts.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates must have at least 5-7 years of successful online sales development or relevant web operations experience.
Experienced management of account team members preferred.
Experience within the health vertical is preferred
Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills, and be an enthusiastic team player.
A solid grasp of online inventory management and ad serving processes is required.
Must possess a working knowledge of the online metrics and research tools used in the marketplace (i.e. Dart, Atlas, MediaMetrix, Nielsen NetRatings, comScore, Omniture, @Plan, Salesforce.com, CMS Systems, Solbright, Double Verify, etc).
Strong quantitative skills for analysis of this data also required.
Strong time management and organizational skills are essential.
Requires excellent computer skills in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

To apply please use the following link;
http://jobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_home.asp?partnerid=391&siteid=5161&Codes=NMED,118980BR

Everyday Health is looking for a Senior Sales Development Manager to join the Sales Development team in NYC.

Responsibilities included, but not limited to:
• Brainstorming with sales reps to develop proposals for custom integrated brand solutions in response to RFP’s from blue chip pharma and CPG advertisers
• Creating proposals for both custom programs and turn-key solutions that accomplish brand objectives, entertain, and engage users
• Develop all trade show exposure including: booth design, arranging speakers, and creating a strategic presentation, collateral materials, giveaways
• Develop marketing initiatives by fostering relationships with .orgs
• Create strong sales packages, in conjunction with .orgs, to promote to advertisers
• Proofreading marketing materials, presentations and mocks

Requirements:
• BA degree with five years experience in Sales Development or Marketing.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization and the ability to influence others through well articulated and innovative ideas
• Superior writing and proofreading skills
• Adaptable person who can deal with rapidly changing requirements of an organization
• Strong interpersonal & presentation skills
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task while meeting tight deadlines
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Accountability – acceptance of responsibility and willingness to commit to and deliver specific, measurable work products and results
• Strong interest in the online industry
• Strong knowledge of PowerPoint

If you are interested in applying for this job, please send your cover letter, resume and salary requirements to careers@everydayhealthinc.com. Please include “Sr. Sales Dev. Mgr 0610” in the subject line of your email.

Everyday Health is a leading provider of online consumer health solutions. We provide our consumers, advertisers and partners with content and advertising-based services across a broad portfolio of over 25 websites that span the health spectrum—from lifestyle offerings in pregnancy, diet and fitness to in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management.

The Everyday Health portfolio includes well-recognized and trusted consumer health brands, including www.EverydayHealth.com; www.SparkPeople.com; www.WhatToExpect.com, from the best-selling What to Expect When You’re Expecting series of books; www.SouthBeachDiet.com, from one of the best-selling diet books of all time; and www.JillianMichaels.com, from Jillian Michaels, host of the hit NBC television show, The Biggest Loser.

Everyday Health is committed to providing the expert guidance and daily tools consumers need to make the best health choices, actively manage their conditions and live healthier lives every day. Everyday Health was founded by Ben Wolin and Mike Keriakos in 2002.