Editor, thegrocer.co.uk

The Grocer is looking for a senior editor to steer the UK’s biggest, most interesting and most widely respected B2B title through its continued transformation as a multi-media powerbrand. In this role you will develop and execute the strategy for our fast-growing, award-winning, subscription-based website, managing the day-to-day digital operations and output, and liaising with a large team of editors and reporters to deliver superb content in a timely fashion. The Grocer is the bible of the food and drink industry, and as close as a B2B publication comes to consumer journalism, covering stories of national importance, from the cost of living crisis, to health & obesity, as well as topics like new product development, sustainability and ethics, marketing, food waste, technology, shopper behaviour, sourcing, food safety, entrepreneurship and more. As a result there’s huge interest from the public in our award-winning coverage and our stories are regularly picked up by the national media. But the main objective of our huge and varied output is to inform our B2B audience, and to help grow the number of subscribers and registered users to our website and related newsletters.

Knowledge of food and drink retail, and all the myriad issues and topics The Grocer covers, is not essential, but will clearly be welcome. This is a very senior role, on the award-winning flagship of the highly successful William Reed group, a family-owned business whose interests span diverse c