Insight Editor

Responsibilities

• Shaping the editorial direction of the daily digital newsletter, ensuring relevance, quality and impact.
• Leading MCA's data editorial agenda, proactively developing and pitching ideas, partnerships, and opportunities to the wider team.
• Owning and evolving MCA's data visualisation strategy, enhancing how insight is presented across coverage.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with key insight providers, identifying compelling data-led angles for editorial output.
• Representing MCA at internal and external events and conferences, contributing ideas, supporting speaker and panellist recruitment, and helping shape event programmes.
• Analysing website performance data to identify what drives registrations, engagement, and return visits, sharing actionable insights to inform team strategy.

Requirements

• Proven experience working with data and translating it into clear, compelling editorial or content, gained either as a journalist within a B2B, business or hospitality-focused media brand, or from an insights background with an interest in developing a career in data-led journalism
• Strong writing and editing skills and a flair for turning trends and data into compelling stories.
• Ability to create engaging, data-driven content for digital platforms, including financial and analytical journalism supported by clear storytelling and visualisation.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using spreadsheets to interpret data, spot patterns, and uncover original story angles.
• Ability to identify, secure, and collaborate with relevant data partners to produce distinctive, insight-led content.
• An understanding of business and financial concepts, including economics, public markets, listed companies, investment, private equity, commercial property, executive leadership, and corporate culture.
• A proactive and energetic mindset, with a drive to produce a consistent stream of original analysis, interviews, and must-read editorial.
• Curiosity about emerging trends - ranging from consumer behaviour to technology - and the ability to translate these into meaningful insights for our subscriber audience.
• Strong networking skills and a willingness to build and maintain industry relationships within hospitality and its wider ecosystem.
• A clear understanding of audience engagement, with the ability to amplify content reach and impact across multiple platforms, including social media.
• Benefits & Initiatives
• 6.6 weeks of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time). The equivalent to 25 days plus standard England and Wales bank holidays for full-time colleagues
• One additional day holiday per year after 6 years' service, up to a maximum 7.6 weeks of annual leave (pro-rata for part-time). The equivalent to 30 days plus standard England and Wales bank holidays for full-time colleagues
• A holiday purchase scheme, allowing employees to purchase up to 3 additional days of annual leave and spread the cost over up to 6 months
• An additional day of paid leave, a 'MeDay', allowing you the flexibility to celebrate a cultural or religious event or your birthday. It recognises that everyone's background is unique and gives you the freedom to mark what matters to you.
• One paid volunteering day per year to support a charity or community initiative of your choice
• Hybrid and agile working opportunities (role dependent)
• Enhanced Pension Contributions, we offer employer pension contributions above the statutory minimum
• Life Assurance Scheme
• Group Income Protectio

Additional Information

As Insight Editor, you'll lead MCA's data and insights coverage, shaping how we interpret and communicate the key trends and metrics driving the hospitality sector. Often described as the Financial Times of the hospitality sector, MCA publishes daily news, analysis and insight on the eating and drinking-out market for our premium subscriber base. Covering multi-site operators from value to premium, our reporting spans everything from Greggs to Gail's, Wetherspoons to The Ivy, and McDonald's to Dishoom. MCA sits alongside Restaurant Online and the Morning Advertiser within William Reed's hospitality division. Working closely with Lumina Intelligence and external insight partners, you'll source, interpret and translate complex data into clear, compelling editorial. You'll bring data to life through charts and visualisations, while building relationships with insight providers to secure access to distinctive datasets and develop opportunities for original research. The role also involves analysing financial disclosures from key sector companies and working with the editorial team to uncover news angles and develop insight-led features. You'll play a central role in delivering authoritative, data-led content that meets the expectations of our senior audience and supports the growth of MCA's paid subscription model. Your impact will be seen in the clarity and authority of our content, helping ensure MCA remains a trusted source of insight for the UK hospitality sector.

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