About Reed Business Information: Reed Business Information is one of the world's leading business to business publishers, with a portfolio of more than 100 news and information products, awards, conferences and directories covering 18 markets. As part of the Reed Elsevier Group, a FTSE 100-listed company, we're a powerful player in the publishing industry and a leader in our field. Our magazines consistently beat their market sector rivals for stories, advertisement sales and copy sales. Brands such as New Scientist, Computer Weekly, Flight International, Community Care, Caterer & Hotelkeeper and Estates Gazette are must-reads for industry decision-makers, and our sales teams ensure all our journals are the ones key advertisers want to work with. We also produce a number of hard copy and web-based directories including the internationally-renowned Kellysearch, a global listing of producers, suppliers and services in hundreds of industries. RBI has proved it can make the most of its successes and adapt to a fast-paced and challenging business environment with brilliant results. But our market leadership doesn't just come from great products. It also stems from our innovation and staff development, customer focus, passion for winning and leveraging the power and global reach of our associate companies in Reed Elsevier. Our missions and goals There are two aspects to Reed Business Information's past and future success: our vision of how best to meet our customers' needs and the values that we live by as a company. These drive us forward as an industry leader and focus our efforts on the opportunities that lie ahead. Our mission 'To achieve continued growth by being the first choice information provider for our customers.' Our goals: Achieving product superiority: that means developing our products and services so that in the eyes of our customers, they are the best Building a higher performance organisation: we strive for a challenging and ambitious culture at RBI and are always look out for opportunities to drive new revenue and be more cost effective Improving sales and marketing effectiveness: we are working hard to raise our game in display sales and maintain our high standards in directory, classified and recruitment sales, and in marketing Remaining the UK's leading recruitment player: in individual markets we are reinforcing the position of our print brands as the marketplace for jobs, but we're also aggressively targeting online recruitment revenues Our Values: At RBI we are committed to providing equality of opportunity to all employees. Our employment policies have been designed to attract and retain people of the highest calibre, to which end we create inspiring working environments that can release the potential of each and every employee. We expect all our employees to embrace the five RBI values in their ways of working - Customer Focus: understanding our customers, beating their expectations, delivering real quality
- Valuing Our People: recruiting, developing and keeping the best people
- Passion For Winning: setting aggressive goals for ourselves and beating the competition
- Innovation: welcoming change, looking for new ideas, taking risks
- Boundarylessness: working positively with colleagues in RBI, across our parent company Reed Elsevier, and with our customers and suppliers
Why work for us - We're Europe's biggest magazine publisher
- We've launched some of the most profitable websites in the world
- We've got offices all over the UK, the US, Asia and Europe
- We've got more than 100 market-leading brands
- We win awards every year for having the best products and people in the business
- Our magazines have readers in hundreds of countries worldwide
- Our stories don't just make headlines in our own magazine - they draw attention from the national and international press
Our Training Our aims are to recruit and retain the best people for our business, so when you join RBI, we want to help you progress within the company and develop your talents and innovation. We're proud of our strong reputation for providing industry-leading training and we are committed to developing our employees at all levels from junior news reporters to advertising sales directors. An experienced and enthusiastic Training & Development team, based at our head office in Sutton, work to set up the best in-house and external courses for our people. Experts in sales, journalism, business development, marketing, technology, specialist support and people management are enlisted to give RBI employees the best advice and teaching possible. We believe that you can build a long and rewarding career with us. |
