Website Manager / Developer

Bauer Create is Bauer Media's creative powerhouse, delivering content-driven campaigns that connect brands with diverse audiences. The team blends creativity, insight, and technical expertise to produce standout digital, audio, video, social, and visual work. Collaboration is at the heart of how they operate, working closely with clients and internal stakeholders to deliver impactful campaigns that drive results. About the Role As Website Developer/Manager, you will be a key technical expert within Bauer Create. You'll oversee the development, maintenance, and optimisation of Bauer's commercial website portfolio-including flagship sites such as hitsradioadvertising.co.uk. You will also lead a major migration project to move Bauer's client websites to a full-service hosting provider, ensuring stability, quality, and zero downtime. This role combines hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration and operational ownership. Responsibilities

• Lead ongoing development and optimisation of Bauer's WordPress websites, ensuring strong performance, responsiveness, and security.
• Manage the end-to-end migration of the client website portfolio to a full-service hosting provider, ensuring smooth delivery and data integrity.
• Provide maintenance, troubleshooting, updates, and technical support across all client websites.
• Act as a technical advisor to sales teams, supporting the scoping and delivery of new client website projects.
• Use AI tools to streamline debugging, content migration, and routine development tasks.
• Maintain strong operational standards through project management platforms such as Monday.com.

Do you have experience in WordPress?, * Proven experience in WordPress development, including PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and version control tools.

• Strong understanding of hosting environments, DNS management, SSL, Core Web Vitals, and SEO principles.
• Ability to support commercially driven projects and contribute to revenue growth through high-quality technical delivery.
• Experience providing technical guidance to clients and internal teams, with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organisational abilities and experience managing large-scale website migrations.
• Comfortable using project management systems (such as Monday.com) and AI-based development tools.
• Demonstrates Bauer's values, with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset and openness to adopting new technologies.

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe's largest Publishers. From women's and celebrities' magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France - both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people's everyday lives. What's in it for you * You'll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use. * Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider - Bauer Academy, is a huge win. * We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay. * You'll have the opportunity for flexible working. * And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here