

The Times
Adobe Developer - 12 Month FTC
⭐ - Featured Role | Apply direct with Data Freelance Hub
This role is for an Adobe Developer on a 12-month FTC, offering a competitive pay rate. Key skills include proficiency in Adobe Campaign, CRM strategy, and data management. Hybrid work location with a minimum of three office days per week is required.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
November 5, 2025
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Fixed Term
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
London Area, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Data Integration #Automation #Quality Assurance #CRM (Customer Relationship Management) #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Data Extraction #Storytelling #Database Systems #Documentation #Strategy #Stories
Role description
Your Team: Times Media houses some of the world’s most trusted and revered news brands, including The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Radio, Times Literary Supplement and Times Money Mentor. Our content is consumed by millions of people around the world each month, through print, our digital platforms, 3rd party platforms, audio and video.
Your role: The Adobe Developer is a pivotal role within the CRM function, responsible for consultancy and campaign development. The Adobe Developer will bring extensive knowledge of the marketing campaign lifecycle, technical database systems and Adobe Campaign to fully utilise the capabilities within the platform. They will work closely with our delivery leads and solution architects to problem solve, design and deliver industry leading CRM output. The successful candidate will have a can-do attitude, with an eye for attention to detail and the confidence to deliver complex multi-channel campaigns in a fast-paced environment.
Day to day you will:
• Consult on projects and advise on the capabilities within Adobe Campaign, for maximised platform utilisation and campaign best practices.
• Responsible for interpreting complex data and automation briefs and inputting expertise to meet objectives for campaign delivery across email, push, SMS and In app - including ad-hoc campaigns, automated journeys, data table management and architecture.
• Use of Adobe Campaign to build detailed data workflows to support the implementation of the CRM strategy across brands.
• Understand the breadth of data available across The Times and Sunday Times, the data flow, architecture and data integrations to identify opportunities and champion data for problem solving within CRM.
• Responsible for quality assurance, identifying areas for improvement and troubleshooting when issues arise. This may include liaising with Adobe Support, raising failures and supporting investigations.
• Create and maintain system documentation including campaign documentation for journeys and templates, matrix of typology rules and automated audience list updates and data extractions.
• Create and manage workflow templates and campaign templates, delivery templates and content fragments.
What we’re looking for from you:
• Demonstrable proficiency and confidence in Adobe Campaign - experienced in the end-to-end process
• Creating operational standards to ensure time efficiencies
• Works well within a team but also work very effectively independently, when it is required
• Being able to multitask in a very dynamic working environment is essential
• Ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible information for different audiences
If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.
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 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.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
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.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events 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%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
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 to apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.
Your Team: Times Media houses some of the world’s most trusted and revered news brands, including The Times, The Sunday Times, Times Radio, Times Literary Supplement and Times Money Mentor. Our content is consumed by millions of people around the world each month, through print, our digital platforms, 3rd party platforms, audio and video.
Your role: The Adobe Developer is a pivotal role within the CRM function, responsible for consultancy and campaign development. The Adobe Developer will bring extensive knowledge of the marketing campaign lifecycle, technical database systems and Adobe Campaign to fully utilise the capabilities within the platform. They will work closely with our delivery leads and solution architects to problem solve, design and deliver industry leading CRM output. The successful candidate will have a can-do attitude, with an eye for attention to detail and the confidence to deliver complex multi-channel campaigns in a fast-paced environment.
Day to day you will:
• Consult on projects and advise on the capabilities within Adobe Campaign, for maximised platform utilisation and campaign best practices.
• Responsible for interpreting complex data and automation briefs and inputting expertise to meet objectives for campaign delivery across email, push, SMS and In app - including ad-hoc campaigns, automated journeys, data table management and architecture.
• Use of Adobe Campaign to build detailed data workflows to support the implementation of the CRM strategy across brands.
• Understand the breadth of data available across The Times and Sunday Times, the data flow, architecture and data integrations to identify opportunities and champion data for problem solving within CRM.
• Responsible for quality assurance, identifying areas for improvement and troubleshooting when issues arise. This may include liaising with Adobe Support, raising failures and supporting investigations.
• Create and maintain system documentation including campaign documentation for journeys and templates, matrix of typology rules and automated audience list updates and data extractions.
• Create and manage workflow templates and campaign templates, delivery templates and content fragments.
What we’re looking for from you:
• Demonstrable proficiency and confidence in Adobe Campaign - experienced in the end-to-end process
• Creating operational standards to ensure time efficiencies
• Works well within a team but also work very effectively independently, when it is required
• Being able to multitask in a very dynamic working environment is essential
• Ability to translate complex concepts into easily digestible information for different audiences
If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.
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 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.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
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.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events 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%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
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 to apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.





