Business Editor in London

About the MBS Group

The MBS Group is a leading executive search firm with a focus on all consumer-facing sectors. Based in Primrose Hill, London, we serve some of the most interesting brands and businesses around the world, working directly with Chairs and CEOs to build outstanding leadership teams and help evolve the best UK and international retail, leisure, FMCG, fashion and healthcare businesses.

About the role: Business Editor

The Business Editor is integral to our marketing output and plays a critical role in keeping us informed and up to date as a business. This is an opportunity for someone who demonstrates enthusiasm and a willingness to learn.

You will be able to prioritise, be proactive, think laterally and take a high-quality client-service approach to your work. You will have a natural interest in research, writing and otherwise communicating complex and interesting content. Most importantly, you will be keen to take ownership of and drive forward the content MBS produces, working as part of a highly supportive team.

THE ROLE OF THE BUSINESS EDITOR

You will be able to prioritise, be proactive, think laterally and take a high-quality client-service approach to your work. You will have a natural interest in research, writing and otherwise communicating complex and interesting content. Most importantly, you will be keen to take ownership of and drive forward the content MBS produces, working as part of a highly supportive team.

SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Content strategy

• Produce and own the content strategy in alignment with wider business goals
• Own and manage a dynamic, responsive editorial calendar of weekly columns and social media content that is balanced, supports wider tactical and strategic objectives, representative, and above all, interesting
• Contribute ideas to wider marketing and business development activity

MBS News and the Weekend Edition

• Own the production of the daily MBS News bulletin – a newsletter read by thousands of industry leaders across the consumer sectors, published every weekday at 9am
• Own the accuracy, quality and impact of the MBS News. Including sourcing, selecting and summarizing the key stories of the day, whilst ensuring content is pitched at the right level and broadly sensitive to MBS’s external relationships
• Write the weekly article for our Weekend Editions on behalf of consultants in a timely manor, ensuring time for internal collaboration, external input (through interviews and quotes), and time to distribute it in advance.
• Lead or support interviews with leaders
• White papers and reports
• Lead on the planning, research, writing and production of all MBS white papers and reports from a content perspective
• Work with the Director, BD & Marketing and Heads of Practice to ensure they meet wider goals, and working with the Project Manager, BD & Marketing on practical and logistics of production, and distribution
• Lead the framing and delivery of the research and analysis, building intelligent research questions framing findings, distilling the findings into pithy content
• Interviewing leaders where there is no business development interest

Business intelligence

• Ensure a rich supply of market intelligence, actively interrogating information, and regularly sharing findings with the rest of the business to drive business development opportunities. Providing critical contexts and commentary for:
• pitches
• meetings
• trips
• new searches
• MBS events
• External events
• Developing client and prospective client relationships
• Own and manage our relationship with Signal AI (a machine-learning news monitoring service MBS incubated over a decade ago)
• Work closely with practices to establish requirements, and actively build, refine and manage Signal feeds which provide crucial intelligence for the business and for the production of The MBS News
• Promote and actively foster a culture of knowledge sharing across the business

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

The ideal candidate will have many of the following attributes:

• Previous experience producing written content for publication externally in a professional setting
• A passionate writer with clear, succinct and adaptable style
• Able to understand complex concepts and aggregated/multiple views and distil them into clear, brief messaging.
• Excellent research and analytical skills, able to quickly separate useful information from noise and apply context to assess information relevance
• Systems literate, able to use applications (for example: MS Office, Wordpress, Mailchimp, Asana, Adobe Creative Suite, CRM databases)
• A client-service approach to work and project timelines
• Commercially-minded, able to think in a joined up way, relate market developments to MBS’s core interests and see any opportunities and relay them to colleagues
• Collegiate and collaborative, able to build a strong personal reputation and work with senior, time-poor but bought-in consultants
• Rigorous and methodical in approach, taking care in the detail
• Proactive, professional, well organised and focused
• Interested in brands, business and leadership

HOW TO APPLY

• To find out more about the role or to apply for the position, please send a copy of your CV as well as a sample of your previous writing to .

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