Senior Features Editor

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Boston Consulting Group Full time

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**:
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a general management consulting firm, widely regarded as a global leader in business strategy consulting. BCG partners with clients in solving the hardest problems challenging their businesses—and the world. We do this by channeling the diversity of our people and their thinking, as well as our shared commitment to uncovering the truth. The solutions we develop in partnership with our clients transform not just companies but also entire industries and even segments of society.

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BCG is seeking an experienced editor to join its Breakthrough Thinking editorial team. Breakthrough Thinking will be a new branded editorial offering built in partnership with BCG Henderson Institute (BHI). It will showcase the best of BCG’s forward-looking ideas emerging from BCG’s research centers, practice areas, and BCG X. In addition, the Breakthrough Thinking editorial team will create original content with its own research capability and commission content from external experts. It will have a magazine-like personality.

Formats on the platform will vary and evolve over the time, and may include articles, research reports, videos, podcasts, infographics, and live events, among others. The content will cover a wide range of themes and business topics targeted to a C-suite audience.

The Senior Editor will have three primary roles:

- Conceive and manage the development of original editorial features that showcase BCG insights on topics of high interest to global leaders.
- Provide top or developmental editing to expert-written content from BCG and external authors.
- Shape and help to manage and develop the ongoing content pipeline

You will work closely with the Executive Editor and the Editor-in-Chief and the broader BCG content studio, marketing leadership, BCG senior thought leaders, BCG Henderson Institute, and external experts.

**YOU'RE GOOD AT**:
Original Content Development
- Identify opportunities for new editorial features across media types
- Develop editorial plans for new features and oversee their creation
- Provide developmental and top editing for original features

Recruit and Manage External Contributors
- Identify and recruit external contributors in alignment with strategic goals
- Review, assess, and field external pitches
- Execute assignments
- Manage full lifecycle of development

Developmental and Top Editing
- Manage a portfolio of developmental editing assignments
- Top edit work from freelance writers and editors

Teaming
- Works positively and collaboratively. Actively builds relationships across content and research teams; operates as part of an integrated team and looks for opportunities to contribute expertise.
- Collaborates with a variety of stakeholders to meet aggressive timelines.
- Uses internal communication tools, including Slack and Trello, to help manage projects and stay connected to various efforts and priorities in Global Marketing.
- Communicates clearly and effectively; actively listens and is able to influence others in an effective, constructive manner.
- Contributes to broader editorial projects and initiatives geared toward improving the quality and reach of our content, as well as the ways we work together to produce and share content.

**YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)**:
Education or Certifications
- Undergraduate degree with demonstrated high academic achievement.

Work Experience
- 7+ years of editing experience working in a fast-pased professional setting.

**Skills**:

- Exceptional command of the English language as both a writer and an editor
- Strong journalistic sensibilities
- Strong command of business and management topics
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Experience and comfort with senior stakeholder management
- Ability to attend to details yet see the big picture
- Familiarity with best practices for digital content
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative and positive in all interactions
- Flexible; adapts quickly to new circumstances or priorities; open to new ideas
- Solutions oriented
- Strong organizational and project management skills, able to juggle several concurrent assignments and take initiative to solve problems
- Familiarity with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; familiarity with Slack desirable

**YOU'LL WORK WITH**:
Must be able to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense environment and to interpret rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and in keeping with BCG’s values and culture (e.g., treats all others with respect, performs role with highest level of integrity).

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