Retail Gazette
Senior Content Editor
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About the role
Retail Gazette is looking for an experienced and ambitious Senior Content Editor to help shape our editorial output and strengthen our position as a leading source of news, interviews, and insight for the UK retail industry. This is a hands-on role for a talented business journalist who combines sharp news judgement with excellent editing, content-planning skills; and events’ moderation.
Working across digital news articles, interviews, impact papers, webinars, and events, you will create compelling content for retail professionals. Additionally, you will support commercial projects and contribute ideas that grow audience engagement. While the role will cover the whole omni-channel retail ecosystem, there will be dedicated in-store and supply chain newsletters to oversee, each week.
You will bring curiosity, accuracy, and authority to coverage of the people, innovation, and trends shaping retail.
Key responsibilities
- Plan and produce high-quality editorial content across breaking news, analysis, interviews, features, and thought leadership.
- Edit with confidence, ensuring every piece is accurate, engaging, well structured, and aligned with Retail Gazette’s editorial standards.
- Help set the daily and longer-term content agenda, identifying stories, themes, and formats that matter to senior retail professionals.
- Develop commercial content, including sponsored impact papers, and partner-led features, while maintaining editorial quality and clarity.
- Build a strong industry network of retailers, brands, analysts, and expert contributors to generate exclusives and distinctive insight.
- Support podcasts and multimedia content through research, guest booking, scripting, interviewing, and publication.
- Represent Retail Gazette at events, including moderating panels, hosting webinars, and conducting live interviews.
- Collaborate across the business with commercial, marketing, events, design, and freelance contributors to deliver projects on time.
- Use audience insight and performance data to refine coverage, improve engagement, and identify opportunities for growth.
- Support and guide colleagues and contributors, sharing feedback and helping maintain a consistent, high-quality editorial voice.
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About you
An experienced journalist or editor with a strong track record in business, retail, consumer, ecommerce, or B2B publishing.
- Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
- Strong news judgement and the ability to turn complex developments into clear, engaging stories.
- Commercially aware, with experience of branded or sponsored content and a clear understanding of editorial integrity.
- A confident interviewer and presenter who is comfortable hosting webinars, podcasts, and live events.
- Collaborative, organized, and skilled at managing internal and external stakeholders.
- Curious about the forces reshaping retail, including technology, ecommerce, consumer behaviour, marketing, sustainability, and store strategy.
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Qualifications and experience
- Significant professional experience in journalism, editing, or content production.
- Experience working in a newsroom, media business, or B2B publishing environment.
- A degree or professional qualification in journalism, communications, English, or a related discipline is welcome but not essential; relevant experience and a strong portfolio are equally valued.
- Knowledge of UK retail and an established industry contact network would be an advantage.
Why join Retail Gazette?
You will join an ambitious editorial team with the opportunity to influence coverage across multiple formats, develop your industry profile, and create content that reaches a substantial audience of retail decision-makers. If you are excited by the fast-moving retail sector and want to produce journalism with impact, we would love to hear from you.
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