Senior Content Editor, Financial Times
FT Live, Conference Producer, 12-month FTC Parental Cover
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
Open for applications
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Open for applications
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally at least 2 years’ experience in B2B or B2C events / conference production
- The ability to demonstrate they can launch and execute new events, and grow existing events
- Be able to work within a large, dynamic and fast moving international business
- Client Focused: Builds strong relationships with external stakeholders and uses strong project management and writing skills to deliver high quality events
- Action Oriented: Uses strong organisational, project management, and analytical abilities to take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm
- Communicates Effectively: Excellent written and spoken English, and strong communication skills
- Inspires Trust: Gains the confidence of others by modelling honesty, integrity, authenticity, and behaviours that align with FT Live’s values. Exemplifies courage by stepping up to address challenging issues
- Self-Development: Actively seeks new ways to grow and be challenged using formal and informal development channels
- Business Mindset: A good understanding and keen interest in the issues affecting global business, and an interest in current affairs
- Agile: Able to quickly adapt to change and embrace digital innovations transforming the media and events space
What the job involves
- FT Live is currently recruiting for a Senior Content Editor covering both B2C and B2B events on a 12-month fixed-term contract
- Research, write and produce innovative, high-quality event programmes (in-person, digital and hybrid) for both core and single-sponsored B2B and B2C events
- Research, invite and confirm speakers for those events
- Work with the FT's editorial team to ensure programme quality
- Research and write editorial proposals for sponsorship sales packs and pitches
- Conduct due diligence and assist in the development of new ideas for global multi-sponsored core events
- Liaise with the FT journalists chairing and/or moderating at our events
- Liaise with the sponsorship department to ensure fulfilment of content deliverables
- Liaise with the project management department to optimise the running of programmed events and the delivery of content for event collaterals
- Liaise with the marketing department to create original copy for email blasts, newspaper ads and marketing brochures
- Liaise with the social media department to produce and manage any additional content required pre- and post-event on social media channels
- Manage any additional content, related to pre- and post-event engagement
- Help with speaker liaison and on-the-day content, including social media output and content related to live streaming
- Assist with any other post-event content, including thank you emails to speakers, event summaries, etc
- Liaise with FT editorial to optimise the use of FT.com video and other FT digital output to enhance FT Live events
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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52% female employees
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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