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Insight Editor
Insight Editor – MCA (Hospitality Intelligence)
About the Role
Department: Editorial Location: Gatwick
As Insight Editor, you’ll lead MCA’s data and insights coverage, shaping the publication’s interpretation and communication of critical trends and metrics driving the hospitality sector. Often hailed as the Financial Times of the hospitality sector, MCA delivers daily news, analysis, and insight on the eating and drinking-out market for a premium subscriber base.
Coverage spans multi-site operators—from value chains like Greggs to premium brands The Ivy, and global players McDonald’s to Dishoom. MCA operates within William Reed’s hospitality division alongside Restaurant Online and The Morning Advertiser.
This role requires close collaboration with Lumina Intelligence and external partners to source, interpret, and visualise complex data—ensuring MCA remains the trusted authority on UK hospitality insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead editorial direction of the daily digital newsletter, prioritising relevance, quality, and impact.
- Direct MCA’s data editorial agenda, proactively developing ideas, partnerships, and opportunities.
- Evolve the data visualisation strategy, improving presentation of insights across coverage.
- Build and maintain relationships with key insight providers, securing access to unique datasets.
- Represent MCA at events and conferences, contributing to programming and speaker recruitment.
- Analyse website performance data to optimise engagement, registrations, and return visits.
- Translate financial disclosures from hospitality companies into editorial angles and insight-led features.
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Requirements
- Proven expertise in data-driven journalism or insights, with experience translating complex metrics for B2B, business, or hospitality audiences.
- Outstanding writing/editing skills, with a talent for turning trends into compelling narratives.
- Ability to create engaging digital content with clear data storytelling and visualisations (including financial/analytical journalism).
- Strong analytical skills, including spreadsheet proficiency to interpret trends and uncover original story angles.
- Experience identifying, securing, and collaborating with data partners to produce distinctive features.
- A grasp of business/financial concepts, including public markets, investment, private equity, and executive leadership.
- Proactive, energetic mindset to consistently produce original analysis, interviews, and must-read editorial.
- Strong curiosity about emerging trends in consumer behaviour, technology, and hospitality innovation.
- Excellent networking skills and a commitment to industry relationship-building.
- Strategic understanding of audience engagement, with an ability to amplify insights across all platforms.
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Benefits & Initiatives
- 6.6 weeks annual leave (25 days + UK bank holidays for full-time staff).
- Additional holiday day after six years’ service (7.6 weeks total).
- Holiday purchase scheme (buy up to 3 extra days over 6 months, pro-rata for part-time).
- Flexible ‘MeDay’: Additional paid leave for cultural/religious observations or birthdays.
- 1 paid volunteering day per year for charity/community initiatives.
- Hybrid & agile working flexibility (role dependent).
- Enhanced pension contributions beyond statutory minimum.
- Life Assurance, Group Income Protection schemes.
- Extended family-friendly leave pay, including shared parental leave.
- Wellbeing support:
- Health care cash plan
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Virtual GP service
- Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), with disability confident accreditation and employer networks.
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