Manager - R&I - Sr. Editor & Content Strategist

Job title: Senior editor and content strategist (Manager), Deloitte Insights

Do you have strong business journalism and editing skills; the ability to help subject matter experts translate complex information into compelling copy; and proven experience engaging audiences through clear, concise, impactful storytelling? If you have a natural flair for language and enjoy working with authors and thought leaders around the world, we need your expertise

Work you'll do:

Deloitte Insights publishes 400+ content projects annually across a variety of media types with the goal of educating, informing, and inspiring Deloitte clients and prospective clients on the business issues that matter most to their strategic agendas. From growth and competitive advantage, to emerging technologies, to workforce strategy and beyond, Deloitte Insights (DI) publishes data-driven thought leadership for global C-suite and board-level executives across industries.

As a senior editor and content strategist for Deloitte Insights, you'll work with Deloitte professionals, researchers, and thought leaders to help plan, develop, and produce research and insights projects for US and global audiences including Deloitte clients, the media, academia, and more. The work will vary from project to project, so this role requires someone with versatile storytelling skills; keen editorial judgment; an expert understanding of storytelling best practices and grammar, punctuation, and AP style rules; and an editor's adaptability, strong collaboration skills, sensitivity to authors' needs and objectives, and eye for detail. Working closely with our editorial, production, design, UX, and technology teams, you'll apply an outside-in lens to content planning and storytelling, and deliver our content via a compelling, digital-first experience.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leveraging your own business knowledge and storytelling expertise when partnering with researchers and subject matter experts to develop and refine thought leadership content plans and projects
• Supporting thought leadership content projects in a variety of ways, including content strategy and planning; story concepting and outlining; ghostwriting; structural, line, and copy editing; data communications (figure concepting, infographics, dashboards, etc.); multimedia storytelling (video scripts, etc.); and more
• Acting as the storytelling strategist to ensure that each content project is clear and compelling—that the story flows logically and ensures reader/viewer/listener engagement from start to finish, the ideas are well differentiated and communicated accurately and directly, the phrasing is dynamic and conversational, the overall content project will be perceived by target audiences as high-quality and high-value, and the content will achieve the content creators' objectives
• Working closely with authors to ghostwrite, rewrite, or substantively edit thought leadership content, when necessary, to ensure quality, readability, and audience engagement while maintaining the authors' voices (and knowing when to leave authors' wording as is)
• Leading content quality control and storytelling effectiveness: editing copy for accuracy, clarity, grammar, punctuation, readability, flow, and style
• Managing stakeholders: finding ways to effectively influence the outcomes of authors' work while respecting their ownership of the end results
• Pitching, planning, and developing derivative content intended to share noteworthy findings from Deloitte research in engaging ways (e.g., videos, articles, etc.)
• Using technology such as generative AI judiciously and according to team policies, to support copy revisions, headline refinement, and process efficiencies; guiding authors on appropriate gen AI usage in writing
• Coordinating with authors, designers, marketing, and other internal teams to ensure that project timelines are accurately set and met
• Coaching Deloitte content creators on language usage, writing style, storytelling effectiveness, and Deloitte Insights' production processes
• Guiding/mentoring junior editors and reviewing their work

Our DI publishing team comprises editors plus production, audience engagement, and digital operations professionals located around the world.

Working hours/location

• Location: Bengaluru
• Working hours: 11 AM to 8 PM

Qualifications:

• Master's degree (preferably in journalism, communications, English literature, or similar)
• 11+ years of experience in business journalism or business writing and editing, working with content in US English

Skills:

• Deep experience with working and owning a reporting/journalism beat. Experience with financial journalism or economic reporting preferred.
• Experience in a publishing/media house or with corporate thought leadership and global, cross-industry content preferred
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills; proven ability to translate complex concepts into simpler, more accessible language
• Excellent editing skills; exceptional knowledge of English grammar and AP style, and the ability to explain edits to authors
• Ability to manage multiple projects with quick turnaround times simultaneously
• Excellent attention to detail, laser focus on quality, and ability to consider the big picture
• Outside-in orientation, considering all content projects from the perspective of the target audience and their needs/interests
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including the confidence to interact with and influence personnel at all levels, as well as listening skills, responsiveness, flexibility, initiative, decision-making, conflict resolution, and tact
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and content management/publishing systems, and workflow and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Teams, etc.; knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience with multimedia content preferred
• Ability to work independently, as well as with a larger, multifunctional team

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