Features Editor

The UK’s biggest, most interesting and most high-profile business / trade media publication is looking for a brilliant features editor. It is a vital and fascinating role, helping The Grocer – the bible of the food and drink industry – to set the agenda, via investigations, original research, rankings, big interviews and in-depth reports, as well as offering fresh and fun insights via listicles and podcasts etc. The successful candidate will need to be super organised, full of ideas and creativity, and a bit of a polymath – able to conceive, commission and edit multimedia content on a wide variety of topics related to the £200 billion+ food and drink industry – including:

hot new food and drink launches
the latest retail, shopper and consumer trends including rapid delivery and plant-based food
the future of British agriculture, trade deals and food security
climate change, recycling legislation and sustainability strategy
health and obesity as well as food safety
technological upheaval caused by automation, AI/ChatGPT etc.
creative marketing campaigns and social media developments
price wars, promotions strategies and loyalty schemes
the tribulations of multinational retail and fmcg giants but also exciting startups and the rich seam of entrepreneurship within the sector
societal changes caused by the cost of living crisis, the aftermath of Covid and the economics of Brexit