Trends Researcher + Writer in City of London

GlobalData operates an intelligence platform that empowers leaders to act decisively in a world of complexity and change. By uniting proprietary data, human expertise, and purpose-built AI into a single, connected platform, we help organizations see what’s coming, move faster, and lead with confidence. Our solutions are used by over 5,000 organizations across the world’s largest industries, delivering tailored intelligence that supports strategic planning, innovation, risk management, and sustainable growth.

GlobalData is at a pivotal point in its growth journey and we need curious, ambitious, courageous people to support us in achieving our vision to deliver intelligence that transforms uncertainty into opportunity for the world’s most successful organizations. Our big ambitions mean that life at GlobalData is fast-paced, entrepreneurial and rewarding. Working together in an intellectually challenging environment, where learning is super-charged to keep us on our toes, the highly stimulating, fast-paced, global environment we operate in, and our bold ambitions result in unique learning opportunities for our people.

We are looking for a Researcher and Writer to join our Consumer Lifestyle team, specifically working in the Food & Beverage and Hospitality & Leisure teams. This role will focus on tracking emerging global trends across food, beverage, wellbeing, hospitality, travel, leisure and consumer attitudes. With a varied beat that ranges across ingredient innovation, food shopping behaviours, airline developments, hotel interiors, consumer demographics, hobbies, luxury leisure activities and more, you’ll help produce reports of varying format from sourcing imagery and building reports in our CMS to pitching your own ideas and translating your research into insightful copy.

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic researcher, writer and editor with strong writing skills, deep cultural curiosity, and the desire to get under the skin of a broad range of brand and consumer-related subjects.

What you’ll be doing:

• Write short-form articles pertaining to all the industries we cover
• Contribute research to short- and long-form articles
• Source relevant statistics and other data
• Upload articles to our proprietary CMS, including sourcing images
• Pitch ideas for short- and long-form content
• Interview industry experts for long-form articles (frequently remote, occasionally in-person)
• Attend industry trade shows and conferences to learn about emerging trends (occasionally involving travel)
• Contribute to wider consumer lifestyle reporting and projects
• Attend meetings with clients

What we’re looking for:

• You must have strong research, writing and analysis skills
• Be able to display a meticulous eye for detail and accuracy
• You will be organised and methodical in your approach to working
• Good communication skills with other team members
• Can differentiate valuable and reliable data and statistics to support content
• Have a sharp visual eye with an ability to find appealing imagery

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. GlobalData believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.