News and Features Writer
Description✓News and Features Writer
✓Do you take an interest in the way different industries work? Do you want to answer the key questions to the dilemmas currently keeping retail, packaging and hotel management CEOs up at night? Do you love using data to make your articles stand out from the rest? Finally, do you have impeccable editing and writing skills?
✓If you want to take your B2B writing to a much deeper level and produce research-driven news stories and features for a wide range of professional industries [namely retail, packaging and hotel management] this could be the role for you.
✓This position sits within the media division of GlobalData and will involve writing daily news and features for our retail, packaging and hotel management websites.
✓GlobalData is looking for a full-time and permanent News and Features Writer with at least two years’ experience writing for professional B2B publications who is brimming with ideas and excited to create engaging content within set time frames.
✓Working closely with colleagues across the editorial, SEO, analyst and data teams, the writer will be responsible for writing, researching and publishing content across a group of websites and corresponding digital magazines.
✓Key responsibilities:
✓- To write original daily news articles and monthly features relevant for the key audiences.
✓- To get exclusive interviews, comments, and quotes that will promote GlobalData’s publications as leading sources of exclusive content within their industries.
✓- To establish a network of contacts and feature sources for each site.
✓- To build relationships within the sectors and act as an ambassador for the sites at events and shows in the UK and overseas when necessary.
✓- Develop content ideas that are engaging, relevant and in line with our audience strategy.
✓- To help maintain the highest standard of writing possible.
✓- Work with the editor and other teams to develop exclusive data-led news and feature articles.
✓Core Competencies for Role:
✓- At least two-years’ experience writing original news and features for professional B2B publications.
✓- Ideally a professional journalism qualification that includes media law.
✓- Proven ability to identify, research and develop news and features.
✓- Command of the English language.
✓- Strong interpersonal skills.
✓- Ability to prioritise and juggle a workload across multiple sites.
✓- Understanding and ability to interpret basic financial data.
✓- CMS and SEO knowledge desired but not essential.
✓- Strong eye for detail to provide clean and accurate copy.
✓- Ability to work with data and industry reports.
✓The Company:
✓GlobalData is one of the fastest growing data and analytics companies on the London Stock Exchange
✓Our growth is a direct result of our investment in our people, our products and our platforms.
✓Our Business Intelligence division produces over 15,000 reports, briefings, forecasts and data books each year
✓Our coverage spans 42 sectors, 500,000 companies and 80 countries
✓Our Intelligence Centres offer constantly updated data, analysis and tools that slot seamlessly into the workflow of our customers to help them decode the future.
✓Under its GlobalData Media division, GlobalData also runs a portfolio of industry-leading websites and magazines, an international events business, and a technology-driven marketing-solutions offering Show more →
✓Do you take an interest in the way different industries work? Do you want to answer the key questions to the dilemmas currently keeping retail, packaging and hotel management CEOs up at night? Do you love using data to make your articles stand out from the rest? Finally, do you have impeccable editing and writing skills?
✓If you want to take your B2B writing to a much deeper level and produce research-driven news stories and features for a wide range of professional industries [namely retail, packaging and hotel management] this could be the role for you.
✓This position sits within the media division of GlobalData and will involve writing daily news and features for our retail, packaging and hotel management websites.
✓GlobalData is looking for a full-time and permanent News and Features Writer with at least two years’ experience writing for professional B2B publications who is brimming with ideas and excited to create engaging content within set time frames.
✓Working closely with colleagues across the editorial, SEO, analyst and data teams, the writer will be responsible for writing, researching and publishing content across a group of websites and corresponding digital magazines.
✓Key responsibilities:
✓- To write original daily news articles and monthly features relevant for the key audiences.
✓- To get exclusive interviews, comments, and quotes that will promote GlobalData’s publications as leading sources of exclusive content within their industries.
✓- To establish a network of contacts and feature sources for each site.
✓- To build relationships within the sectors and act as an ambassador for the sites at events and shows in the UK and overseas when necessary.
✓- Develop content ideas that are engaging, relevant and in line with our audience strategy.
✓- To help maintain the highest standard of writing possible.
✓- Work with the editor and other teams to develop exclusive data-led news and feature articles.
✓Core Competencies for Role:
✓- At least two-years’ experience writing original news and features for professional B2B publications.
✓- Ideally a professional journalism qualification that includes media law.
✓- Proven ability to identify, research and develop news and features.
✓- Command of the English language.
✓- Strong interpersonal skills.
✓- Ability to prioritise and juggle a workload across multiple sites.
✓- Understanding and ability to interpret basic financial data.
✓- CMS and SEO knowledge desired but not essential.
✓- Strong eye for detail to provide clean and accurate copy.
✓- Ability to work with data and industry reports.
✓The Company:
✓GlobalData is one of the fastest growing data and analytics companies on the London Stock Exchange
✓Our growth is a direct result of our investment in our people, our products and our platforms.
✓Our Business Intelligence division produces over 15,000 reports, briefings, forecasts and data books each year
✓Our coverage spans 42 sectors, 500,000 companies and 80 countries
✓Our Intelligence Centres offer constantly updated data, analysis and tools that slot seamlessly into the workflow of our customers to help them decode the future.
✓Under its GlobalData Media division, GlobalData also runs a portfolio of industry-leading websites and magazines, an international events business, and a technology-driven marketing-solutions offering Show more →