Here are a few of our current employees for you to meet:
My name is Lauren Roberts and I started working for Warners in September 2004 as a Commercial Assistant in the Leeds office. My main role was to help Jan Davison with the commercial aspects of the Leeds department and to focus on the marketing for Writers’ News and Writing Magazine.
Since late 2005 the Leeds office has grown in the number of titles we now publish. I have taken on the marketing responsibilities for our new titles which are Stamp & Coin Mart (August 2005), Pianist (January 2007) and Young Writer (October 2007). I look after all the subscriptions and newstrade marketing for our titles to ensure we have the maximum number of subscribers and constantly attract new readers. I work closely with the other marketers throughout Warners to ensure that we all follow best practice and share our most effective campaigns. I really enjoy my role and the variety of tasks that every day brings.
My name is Amanda Nightingale and I joined the business back in 1998 when I was just 22 and on only my second job after completing a Media & Communications degree. More than nine years later I’m still here, very happy in my role, very much a ‘Warners' person’ and have no plans to move on to pastures new. This is pretty common here at Warners and you’ll find lots of people who have been working here for many years.
My first role was within the busy exhibitions team. As our show portfolio grew I took on a purely marketing role which in 2003 developed into the role of Marketing Manager across our exhibitions and the consumer titles in the Development Publishing Department. In the last year I felt the need for a new challenge and I have been supported to undertake a complete change of direction and am now Warners' Online Development Manager. I can now be found with my nose glued to a screen surfing the web pretty much all day and am becoming quite a useful ‘geek’ to know if you want to know how to do anything on our websites!
During my time with the business I’ve undergone a lot of development professionally and personally which has been supported and encouraged by members of the senior team and my peers. Warners encourages individuals to develop with a lot of in-house training and sharing of information as well as using external suppliers. We have a strong emphasis on coaching with the whole senior team participating in supporting junior and middle managers.
I’m a bit of a social soul and very much a driving force behind our Sports & Social Club. We organise a busy schedule of events over the year plus an annual Christmas bash and summer party. I hope you decide you’d like a career with Warners and look forward to meeting you at a future social event. You can normally find me near the bar - I’m the one in charge of the drink vouchers!
My name is Ben Jennings and I am a Website Graphic Designer at Warners Group Publications. I graduated with a degree in Industrial Design & Technology in 2005. I applied a couple of times for design based jobs with Warners having graduated, but was unsuccessful with them. I accepted a job elsewhere which was design based and tried to further my career.
However, the family-based company of Warners always appealed, due to its size, varied nature and location to me. So in January of 2007, I applied for a Marketing Assistant role, as maternity cover for eight months. The plan was to get a foot in the door at Warners, build up a good name for myself and progress to a design job from within. Thankfully, positions came up that I applied for and during one of the interviews the manager thought I wouldn't be directly suited to his role, but saw potential for another manager. This then led to an interview and I am now perfectly settled in my established role. Warners is a company that likes to look after good staff, and always tries to find a solution to staff who are after a change. They are a large and ever expanding company that had always held promise as an employer. Now that I am established on a permanent contract, I am more than happy with the progress and work that has been put in by Warners and the people associated with it.