Assistant Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and schedule display, classified, government, tender, and special advertisement releases in accordance with booking instructions and publication plans.
• Ensure accurate placement of advertisements as per client commitments, contracts, release orders, and approved layouts.
• Coordinate with advertisement sales teams, advertisement agencies, and clients regarding scheduling requirements and publication dates.
• Prepare daily advertisement schedules for newspaper editions and supplements.
• Optimize advertisement positioning while balancing editorial content and pagination requirements.
• Work closely with the Editorial and Page-Making teams to ensure seamless integration of advertisements within newspaper pages.
• Monitor advertisement inventory, page occupancy, and space utilization to maximize revenue opportunities.
• Verify advertisement material, release orders, rates, dimensions, and publication instructions before scheduling.
• Ensure timely execution of government, DAVP, tender, public notice, educational, and corporate advertisements.
• Resolve scheduling conflicts, space constraints, and last-minute advertisement changes efficiently.
• Generate and maintain advertisement scheduling reports, publication records, and release confirmations.
• Coordinate with printing and production teams to ensure error-free publication of scheduled advertisements.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, client agreements, and advertising guidelines.
• Supervise and guide the Advertisement Scheduling team to achieve operational excellence and timely output.
• Monitor missed advertisements, compensatory insertions, and scheduling discrepancies and initiate corrective actions.
• Support management with MIS reports relating to advertisement occupancy, scheduling performance, and revenue realization.

Preferred candidate profile

• Graduate in any discipline; candidates with media or publishing industry experience required.
• 5 to 7 years of experience in newspaper advertisement scheduling, advertisement operations, pagination or print media production.
• Strong understanding of newspaper advertisement workflows, booking processes, and publication schedules.
• Experience working with newspaper advertisement management and scheduling software.
• Good knowledge of page planning, edition management and print production timelines.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and work under pressure during newspaper production cycles.
• Strong analytical, coordination, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in handling government, corporate, agency,and classified advertisement releases will be an added advantage.
• Familiarity with basic Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Layout X desirable.