Commissioning Editor, Sun Sport Originals

Commissioning Editor, Sun Sport Originals

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your team: Sun Originals is a brand new video production studio making premium series for The Sun, Sun Sport and Fabulous brands. Creating, developing and producing a slate of brand new original shows, the department is tasked with delivering huge new audiences, developing a raft of famous new faces and helping to deliver The Sun to its next generation of viewers.

This is your chance to lead that change / join a talented team, redefining how content is created and consumed, contributing to creative, innovative video output that drives traffic and revenue, as we redefine how a brand at the heart of the nation's conversation finds innovative new ways to tell the stories that matter in the fast-paced digital world.

Your role: You will be at the forefront of our shift to video, ordering and delivering unmissable shows that both inform and engage audiences. You will play a key role in driving our video output, ensuring our strategy aligns with traffic goals and revenue-generating platforms such as YouTube, our own site and across social channels. You will commission and curate video content that amplifies our journalistic integrity while capitalising on what drives clicks, views, and conversations online.

Day to day you will:

• Video Commissioning & Curation: Reporting to the Director of Video, you will commission exciting original and creative new shows focusing on our Sun Sport brand, ensuring they drive audience growth, delight commercial partners, and help us become number one in News Video.
• Editorial leadership: As Commissioning Editor, you take editorial responsibility for every episode you order. You must brilliantly support and guide your colleagues to create the best-performing content possible.
• Production mastery: You will work with colleagues to ensure your shows arrive ahead of deadline and in perfect shape to share with the world.
• Traffic-Driven Strategy: Use data-driven insights to inform your commissioning decisions, focusing on creating high-performing content for platforms like YouTube, the website, and social media.
• Budget & Resource Management: you’ll take responsibility for ensuring efficient use of resources without compromising on quality.
• Industry Awareness: Stay ahead of digital video trends in lifestyle, fashion, consumer and news, continuously experimenting with new formats, technologies, and approaches to audience engagement.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Experienced Video Commissioner: You have experience in commissioning and producing premium original video shows for YouTube and across social media platforms.
• Digital Native: You are deeply immersed in the digital media landscape, with an intuitive understanding of what drives traffic online, especially through video content.
• News Savvy: You have a solid understanding of journalistic practices, the latest sports and entertainment coverage trends, and how to turn them into compelling visual stories that resonate with digital audiences.
• Data-Driven & Results-Oriented: You understand how to use analytics to inform content strategy and have a proven track record of driving audience growth and increasing video views through strategic commissioning.
• Creative & Fast-Paced: You thrive in a high-pressure, fast-moving environment, always ready to capitalise on breaking news or trending sports events to create impactful video content.
• Team management: You are used to managing individual producers, editors, and teams of producers to deliver great episodes in a positive manner.
• Leadership & Collaboration: You’re a natural collaborator who can work closely with journalists, producers, and technical teams to ensure a seamless video production process from concept to execution.
• Senior Stakeholder Management: Liaise and present to senior stakeholders on the newsroom floor and in the wider business.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include TalkTV, talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.