Key Responsibilities

Strategic Thinking Partnership

• Act as a strategic thinking partner to the leadership of Economist Pro, helping to shape ideas ahead of wider team discussion.
• Support the development of early-stage ideas into structured plans, papers, and decision briefs.
• Provide an independent perspective, testing the strength of thinking and the deliverability of plans.

Key Initiative Ownership and Program Management

• Support the leadership team to set and refresh priorities, identify dependencies, and make trade-offs across the portfolio.
• Establish proportionate governance, decision forums, and success measures for major initiatives.
• Ensure initiatives deliver measurable business outcomes, not simply completed activity.
• Take ownership of the key initiatives tracker across Growth, Customer, and Culture.
• Hold direct responsibility for a number of initiatives while providing program oversight across the remainder.
• Run the biweekly review cadence, tracking progress against each named owner and maintaining an accurate view of status, risks, and dependencies.
• Act as a key liaison with legal and finance teams where necessary.
• Escalate risks and blockers to the SVP with clear recommendations.
• Ensure every initiative has a named owner and a defined next milestone.

Team Strategy and Culture

• Design and facilitate strategic and cultural activities that support team cohesion, including strategy development sessions and team days.
• Lead initiatives to build and monitor team success measures and internal communications, tracking survey results and acting on findings.

Performance Reporting

• Develop a concise, decision-oriented view of business performance, strategic initiative progress, and organizational health.
• Identify trends, opportunities, and risks, recommending actions or decisions required from the leadership team.
• Analyze reporting on business and team performance, translating findings into clear recommendations to support decision-making.

Experience, Skills, and Attributes

Experience

• Experience in strategy, commercial operations, transformation, chief of staff, consulting, or in-house program or project leadership.
• Experience in a subscription, B2B, media, or information-services environment would be advantageous.
• A track record of leading a portfolio of projects through to completion in a complex, matrixed organization, including managing stakeholders outside direct reporting lines.
• Experience influencing senior leaders through ambiguity, including helping groups reach decisions on contentious priorities or trade-offs.

Skills

• Skilled at operating as both a strategic thinking partner and a hands-on delivery owner.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to bring structure, pace, and accountability to complex initiatives.
• Strong facilitation skills, with experience designing and running sessions that shape team strategy and culture.
• Effective at building relationships and influencing across sales, editorial, product, and data functions.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into clear recommendations and hold owners to agreed deadlines.
• Clear and confident written and verbal communication skills, particularly with senior stakeholders.

Attributes

• Proactive, taking ownership of outcomes and surfacing risks before they escalate.
• Confident engaging with senior stakeholders on progress, ownership, and timelines.
• Highly organized, with strong judgment around priorities, pace, and detail.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and bringing clarity to complex problems.

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Working Arrangements

The majority of our roles operate on a hybrid working pattern, with 3+ days office attendance required.

AI Usage for Your Application

We are an innovative organization that encourages the use of technology. We recognize that candidates may utilize AI tools to support with their job application process. However, it is essential that all information you provide truthfully and accurately reflects your own experience, skills, and qualifications.

What We Offer

Our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and work-life balance. It includes a highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan, private health insurance, and 24/7 access to counseling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Program.

We also offer a range of lifestyle benefits, including our Work From Anywhere program, which allows you to work from any location where you have the legal right to do so for up to 25 days per year. In addition, we provide generous annual and parental leave, as well as dedicated days off for volunteering and even for moving home.

You will also be given free access to all The Economist content, including an online subscription, our range of apps, podcasts, and more.