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Managing Editor – The Grocer

Full-Time 36000 - 60000 £ / year (est.) No home office possible

At a Glance

Tasks: Lead daily operations of The Grocer, managing a talented editorial team and ensuring high-quality journalism.
Company: Join The Grocer, the UK's leading B2B publication in the £210bn Food & Drink industry.
Benefits: Enjoy 25 days annual leave, hybrid working, and wellness perks like a health care cash plan.
Why this job: Be part of a respected publication with a rich history, tackling diverse topics and making an impact.
Qualifications: Bring extensive B2B journalism experience, strong editing skills, and a passion for storytelling.
Other info: Work in a supportive environment that values work/life balance and encourages personal development.

The predicted salary is between 36000 - 60000 £ per year.

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Who we are

The Grocer is the UK’s biggest, most interesting and most widely respected B2B publication, and the trusted source of the £210bn Food & Drink industry.

A multi-award-winning, multi-media powerhouse, it prides itself on its outstanding journalism, editorial integrity and creativity.

It’s the flagship of the highly successful William Reed group, a family-owned global media group, powering customer success through insight, inspiration and connection across content, events, conferences, and research in the UK, Europe, US and Far East.

Position

Position: Full time – permanent

Location: Gatwick / London / Hybrid

The Grocer is looking for an outstanding business journalist and editor, to take responsibility for the magazine’s day-to-day operations, working alongside the Editor-in-Chief and Editor of thegrocer.co.uk to help steer The Grocer through its continued evolution as a highly successful, fully paid-for publication.

With a 27-strong editorial team, and working across print, online and newsletter publications, this is a big job, with high standards to maintain, new challenges to tackle and new opportunities that need to be explored to ensure we meet the needs of our audience and continue to build on our legacy, which dates back to 1862.

But it’s worth it! The Grocer covers a wide range of topics – the economy, health & obesity, food safety, entrepreneurship, online, sustainability, technology (including AI), new product development, marketing & advertising, supply chain, pay & remuneration – and its coverage is highly valued by its readers and regularly picked up by the national and even international media.

What you’ll be doing:

The Managing Editor reports into the Editor-in-Chief and is responsible for running the day-to-day operations of a) the print magazine in general b) our product & supplier coverage c) our Special Reports and Focus Ons. Your role is to:

Uphold the high editorial standards set by The Grocer, ensuring that our journalism is accurate, robust, authoritative and fair
Ensure The Grocer is run efficiently and effectively in terms of briefing, planning, workflow and production, with direct responsibility for product & supplier news and features
Manage a team of editors and journalists, proofing and signing off copy, while empowering the team to take responsibility for their work where appropriate
Maintain and develop solutions that maximise commercial opportunities (while retaining editorial independence)
Optimise content to achieve maximum success in digital forms and formats, while making best use of digital tools and software where appropriate to enhance the offer
Manage our regular columnists, and finding new ones, to ensure that The Grocer is full of interesting, topical and well-read comment and opinion
Contribute to the strategic direction and brand positioning of The Grocer as it evolves as a multi-platform publication, so that the title fulfils the needs of its readers on a daily and weekly basis, across digital and print
Deputise for the Editor-in-Chief of The Grocer in conjunction with the Editor of thegrocer.co.uk
Represent The Grocer in the media, chairing awards panels, conferences and webinars, attending conferences

Requirements

What you’ll need:

Extensive B2B journalism and editing experience
Strong commissioning, editing, rewriting skills across news, features and opinion
Excellent skills, speed, flexibility and creativity
Superb people management and motivational skills
Strong delegation skills, but also a willingness to sweat the details
An understanding of online, audio-visual and social media
Knowledge of retail, food & drink, fast moving consumer goods etc is not essential, but will clearly be welcome.

Location: Hybrid – In line with our current agile working policy, the successful candidate will be eligible to work part of the week from our Gatwick and/or London offices and to work remotely for the rest of the week. This will include one day in Gatwick and the other office days in Gatwick or London. For commuting to the Gatwick office, we have a minibus service which provides convenient transportation to and from the nearest station (Three Bridges) at the start and end of each day.

Other information

Company Benefits and Initiatives Include:

25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays – increasing by one additional day after 6 years, up to a maximum of 30 days.
An additional day of leave for you to take on a cultural celebration day or on your birthday if you like. A day for you! At William Reed, we call this our “MeDay”.
A volunteer day to take for supporting a chosen charity and giving back to the community.
Opportunity for hybrid working
Contributory Pension
Life Assurance Scheme
Group Income Protection
Enhanced family-friendly leave pay entitlements
Wellbeing benefits, including: A health care cash plan, Employee assistance programme, Virtual GP service and Access to health & wellbeing resources and tools.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Electric Car Scheme

Why work for us

We provide a supportive work environment and are committed to maintaining a healthy work/life balance for all of our employees. Working for William Reed means that you will be joining a stable organisation that is committed to developing its employees and brands.

We warmly welcome and encourage applications from talented individuals of all backgrounds and characteristics.

If you need any support in accessing this opportunity, please do not hesitate to discuss this with us.

To apply, please complete the form below, uploading a CV, links to your journalism portfolio and a cover letter explaining why you’re right for the job.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
Industries

Book and Periodical Publishing

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