Private Markets Thought Leadership Writer

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom M&G plc Full time

At M&G our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly. As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clients and identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities. To help us achieve our vision we’re looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliver results and keep it simple.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:
This role sits within our Investment Marketing team. The objective of the Thought Leadership Writer will be to deliver macro and thematic thought leadership content, from short form to more detailed white papers that can position M&G Investments as a thought leader in Private Markets. A thought leadership article is one that questions, inspires, provokes, advocates, or influences and positions the writer as an opinion leader in their field or industry.

Thought Leadership Writers have strong journalistic ‘storytelling’ writing capability and can write compelling content across a range of mediums. They are adept at writing in a ‘digital first’ way, with an understanding of how best to achieve engagement in digital formats. They are comfortable working closely with key stakeholders among our investment and distribution teams to generate ideas and briefs, and to manage competing deadlines.

Key Responsibilities for this role:

- Deliver thought leadership content, from short form to more detailed white papers that can position M&G Investments as a thought leader in Private Markets. Support the Global Managing Editor to deliver the content strategy, participate in idea generation for themes, content, and publications.
- Writing in flagship publications that sit across asset classes, as well as working with investment teams on more focused pieces to a particular strategy
- Regularly generate ideas for new pieces of content, based on experience and strong relationships with those in the investment and distribution teams with ability to persuade others of their ideas.
- Comfortable challenging briefs where appropriate, based on their strong understanding of our commercial priorities and confidence in seeing through complex pieces from inception to delivery.
- Manage key stakeholder relationships with investment desk, CIO teams and channel heads
- Work collaboratively across wholesale & institutional marketing channels, PR, events
- Keep abreast of competitors, trends in the industry, regulatory changes etc.

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

- Excellent project management and people skills
- Writing skills are essential as is the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines
- Strong technical knowledge of Private Debt Markets essential, ideally acquired by working on an investment desk or advisory capacity
- Comfortable working closely with SMEs to produce institutional white papers and reports

Work Level: Experienced Colleague

Recruiter Name: Emily Northcott

Closing date: 19th March 23

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.



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