The Awards Editor is responsible for managing submissions, surveys, and other data collection methods, interviewing executives for insight into companies’ work, and working with the broader research team to produce the relevant shortlists and winners for our awards program .You must be skilled at organizing and chasing external submissions, analysing information, interviewing senior market participants, and making decisions around our shortlists and winners. The Awards Editor will be part of the best-in-class, awards research team across the insurance, banking, capital markets, infrastructure, aviation, and legal markets.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

·Interviewing leading executives, marketers, and their clients (by phone and face-to-face)

·Soliciting, chasing, and analysing research submissions and market feedback

·Compiling the relevant shortlists/nominees and winners

·Coordinate with relevant accreditation research teams and Market Intelligence editorial heads for relevant award categories on assigned programmes

·Writing programmes (book of the night and scripts) for each ceremony and often an accompanying report

·Representing the Group at regional events and in meetings with firms and industry figures from the region

KEY INTERFACES

·Daily – Head of Awards Research

·Frequent – Editors, journalists, Global and Regional Head of Research, Director of Awards (product), Awards sales team, marketing team, logistics team

·Market executives –investment bankers, corporate executives, brokers, advisors

·Business development, communications and public relations contacts

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Essential and desirable

·High level research and writing skills

·Highly organised and cool under pressure

·Ability to keep to deadlines, pick things up quickly and multi-task

·A great listener and willing learner

·Strong written and spoken English

·A good telephone manner

·Basic note taking skills

·Ability to work independently

·Commercial awareness

Essential and desirable

·Designing and running awards submission process in B2B industry/sector

·Experience with accreditation/benchmarking companies and individuals our robust research process

·Experience of writing structured reports and editorial copy

·Face-to-face and telephone interviewing in a journalistic or other context

·Experience of working collaboratively and closely with a sales/business development team

·Some knowledge of the legal or business environment ideally in a journalistic capacity

·Experience of handling large volumes of data

·Editorial experience

·Coordinating teams around deadlines

·Effective management of data collection and use