Like us, love a bright future
One of the UK's leading media companies, we already have a portfolio of over 100 monthly special-interest magazines and a growing number of online titles, and the future's looking brighter still. That success, and that bright future, are rooted in the enthusiasm of our people. Wherever they're based, at our Bath HQ or London office, they aim to engage with our readers – readers who are passionate about their interest or hobby, whether it's mountain biking, films, scrapbooking, modified cars or technology. Those readers are our future, which means our staff need to be just as passionate and excited about our products and their place in the Future team.
Whether we're publishing market-leading magazines, creating websites or organising events such as big gaming awards like the Golden Joysticks or auto extravaganzas such as TRAX at Silverstone, our focus is on sharing our passion. From the very start, we've been innovative and imaginative, integrating new media into magazine publishing to provide a total experience for clearly-defined groups with interests ranging from technology to games, music and entertainment, sports and hobbies, motoring and lifestyle. And whatever the future brings, it won't change that.
Vision and Values
Just as important as our vision of being the UK 's number one special-interest media company are the values we adopt as a company that guide our day-to-day decisions. We all have things we believe in and expect from others. If your personal values match closely with the Five Future Values below, you're likely to fit in well and enjoy working here.
Passionately Customer-Focused – whether it's readers, internal customers, external customers or shareholders, we are focused on delivering value and service to them.
A Team Business – where the commitment and enthusiasm of colleagues provides a supportive and productive way of working. We understand that everyone has a role to play in achieving our vision.
Courage to Innovate – We have a firm commitment to staying one step ahead of our competitors, to encouraging the generation of ideas from all parts of the Company and to be willing to take calculated risks. We take pride in working out our own solutions, doing things differently (and better!).
Committed to our People – We are committed to our people's development, work/life balance and to providing them with opportunities for growth, challenge, development and variety. We want to be a Company that people are proud to work for.
Unique Culture – working at Future feels different to working for any other organisation. We have a small Company's enthusiasm, friendliness and flexibility, a large Company's professionalism, discipline and ambition, an atmosphere of growth, quality and success and the opportunity for fun, excitement and surprise.
We have job opportunities in a wide range of areas including:
- Sales
- Editorial
- Design
- Marketing
- New Media
- Studio production
- Core services such as HR, IT and Finance
Career development and progression
We provide ongoing training programmes in journalism, sales, publishing, management, art and design, software, IT and employee development. We also supply a range of bespoke training courses, created to meet the needs of a particular team or individual. In addition, we sponsor staff to complete professional qualifications and we use our regular appraisal process to actively listen and respond to individual development needs. Future also has a history of encouraging internal job moves through transfers and promotions, giving our staff the chance to experience new roles and progress through the company.
Employee benefits
Among the benefits we offer are:
- A flexible holiday scheme, enabling staff to take up to 30 days holiday per year
- Group Personal Pension, including employer's contributions (up to 6%)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Profit Share
- Sabbaticals
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and emergency family care
- Childcare Vouchers
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Season Ticket Loans
- Professional Subscriptions paid for
- ShareSave
- Life Assurance
- Death in Service Pension
We also offer incentives for staff, such as:
Employee Referral Scheme - Up to £750 for referring a new recruit to a vacancy at Future - Magazine Launch Bounty – £7,000 for a successful launch idea
To find out more about us, our staff, our job opportunities and benefits see our website: www.futurenet.com/jobs
Join us and together we can build an even better Future