NC maintains an undiluted focus on content and product quality across online and offline publications, conferences, awards, exhibitions, festivals, data and intelligence services. This enables the sharing of best practice, ideas and inspiration, for better, more timely, more informed decisions. NC gives business professionals the commercial understanding and access to the people and organisations they need to do their jobs better.
NC ethos is routed in innovation, in making brave decisions for a better offering that meet and exceed customer demands intelligently and proactively. We are committed to giving those who rely on us the best in networking, information or stimulation.
We depend on the imagination and passion of our people to invent and develop our brands, and drive our business forward. Personal accountability is at the centre of NC, which means NC employees are empowered to create the kind of timely, dynamic products our customers find essential.
NC started life as a local newspaper company in 2000. Today NC is a global media group, playing a crucial role in giving the retail, media, finance, fashion, health, education, government and automotive sectors the essential news, analysis and access they need to succeed.
NC Values
Accountable
- We devolve decision-making responsibility as far as we can down through the organisation
- Because everyone plays their part
- We link reward, wherever possible, to that responsibility
- We make responsible decisions to safeguard our profits and our environment
- We invest with care and do not tolerate waste
- We treat customers, suppliers and each other responsibly
- We will reward and celebrate success but insist on excellence in our products and of ourselves
- People who do not share that value will not find lasting reward here
Brave
- We encourage innovation imagination and creativity
- We nurture ideas and recognise idea for how precious it is
- We are better at standing things up than knocking things down
- We look for opportunity beyond the incremental and give it the time and space it needs
- We are not frightened to experiment
- We learn from our mistakes but are not deterred by them
- We seize opportunity
- We run winners
- We are fast and decisive once we have the basis for decision
Collaborative
- We are a team, respecting the different skill sets any winning team needs
- We ask, listen and hear
- We research by seeking data and opinion
- We recognise our brands will be deployed in different formats by other specialists in the company
- We share our customer information
- We help our colleagues to achieve
- We make one and one make three
Decent
- We communicate openly and honestly with each other
- We are a great business to deal with
- We are consistent, fair and appropriate
- We correct our mistakes
- We say thank you and sorry
- But we are nightmare competitors and tough buyers
Essential
- We deliver reliable product that enables users to base decisions and conclude transactions safely
- We set ourselves the highest standards in our generation of content and delivery of product
- We are generators of unique product based on our own intellectual property; we are not repackagers or retellers
- We look to add value to our propositions progressively, provided we can do it profitably
- We aspire to continuous improvement, subjecting our output to regular critical appraisal
- We make mediocrity feel out of place
Career @ NC
NC is committed to attracting, retaining and developing the careers of the most talented people that work within the industry. This means we are focussed on supporting and enabling our people to achieve their potential and career ambitions, and to share in our success.
It’s true NC has world leading brands and are positioned number 1 in the market for many of our events, titles and business information services but we still hunger for more…we won’t be the best business to business media company in the world without the best people to help us achieve these aspirations.
We believe that our people need to be empowered to make and take decisions….accountability is the key to our continued success. When you come to work at NC it’s important to us that we work together and achieve together. If that sounds like something you would like to be part of, click here to take a look at our current career opportunities.