Editorial Director

Company:

Oliver Wyman

Description:

About Oliver Wyman

At Oliver Wyman, a Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) business, we bring deep industry insight, bold innovation, and a collaborative approach that cuts through complexity to help organizations navigate their most defining transformative moments.

As a business of Marsh, we work alongside the world’s leading experts across risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting. Together with Marsh Risk, Guy Carpenter, and Mercer, we help organizations build resilience and competitive advantages from every angle. With annual revenue over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues in 130 countries, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. 

For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.    

Job Overview:

The Oliver Wyman Forum, the independent think tank and convening arm of global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, seeks an Editorial Director to lead, manage, and help set strategy for a thriving thought leadership operation. This person should be a seasoned editorial leader and accomplished writer who can develop and place influential op-eds, shape major reports and articles, and manage a high-performing editorial team. The ideal candidate will bring the judgment, intellectual range, and storytelling instincts of a top-tier journalist or editor, combined with the strategic discipline to build a distinctive thought leadership agenda for a global professional services firm.

In this role you will be both player and manager, an editorial superstar in your own right who also presides over a fast-paced content operation. You will write and edit top-quality reports and op-eds for Oliver Wyman Forum’s channels and for tier-one global publications. You will serve as a trusted editorial partner to senior Oliver Wyman Forum and Oliver Wyman leaders, helping them develop their public voice, formulate distinctive arguments, and translate complex research into persuasive, publishable opinion pieces. You will oversee the editorial strategy and portfolio for major, multi-year initiatives. You will manage a team of writers and editors, setting editorial standards, creating processes, and allocating resources to produce work with the rigor, clarity, and urgency of top-tier journalism. And you will collaborate across Oliver Wyman Forum’s research, marketing, and design teams to bring these campaigns to life, project the Forum’s insights and expertise around the world, and spark dialogue with global leaders.  

This is a hybrid role that requires 3 days per week in our midtown NYC office. There is no option to be fully remote.

Key Responsibilities:

Editorial strategy, writing, and external influence

• Collaborate with stakeholders across Oliver Wyman to define a strategic agenda of content topics that support the Forum’s overall positioning and objectives

• Identify the Forum’s strongest ideas and shape them into clear, differentiated points of view that can travel with senior business, policy, and media audiences

• Write, edit, and develop op-eds, essays, reports, and articles that meet the standards of top-tier journalism

• Collaborate with partners and subject-matter experts to turn research, client insight, and market intelligence into compelling public arguments

• Work with communications and media relations colleagues to identify tier-one placement options and develop pitches

• Identify and support Oliver Wyman Forum content partnership efforts and contribute content to increase distribution of Oliver Wyman Forum insights, analytics, and interactive tools across a wide spectrum of channels

• Work closely and creatively with research, consulting, marketing, design, knowledge management, events, and IT colleagues to package editorial and visual/interactive content in new and innovative ways

Team leadership and editorial operations

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of writers and editors, ensuring the group operates with clear priorities, strong editorial discipline, high standards, and a shared sense of ambition

• Manage the editorial calendar and pipeline, balancing major research launches, event-driven campaigns, executive op-eds, and timely short-form commentary

• Create efficient editorial processes that improve speed, quality, collaboration, and accountability across stakeholders

• Lead thoughtful AI adoption across the editorial function, identifying and testing new applications, building team capability, and establishing appropriate quality, verification, confidentiality, and governance standards

• Track editorial output and placement performance across volume, tier, and reach of coverage, and use that data to sharpen the team's priorities and standards

Experience Required:

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience (15+ preferred) as a journalist, editor, editorial leader, or senior thought leadership professional in a top-tier media, policy, financial, business, and/or professional services environment

• Significant experience writing, editing, or placing articles, op-eds, essays, or bylined commentary in highly respected external publications

• Experience working directly with CEOs, senior executives, public figures, or recognized experts to develop publishable arguments in their voice

• Master’s degree in journalism, business, public policy, or related field preferred

• Knowledge of and interest in multiple industries, disciplines, geographies, and the ways they intersect

• Experience leading or managing writers, editors, contributors, or cross-functional editorial teams

• Proven ability to work with designers, photographers, and videographers

Skills and Attributes:

• First-class writing and editing skills; able to create compelling pieces with strong, well-supported arguments; able to take the lead in developing publishable work from initial draft through the final stages of fact-checking and copyediting, on tight deadlines

• Exceptional ability to identify the real argument inside complex research, sharpen the thesis, and craft a clear, timely, persuasive narrative for senior audiences

• Strong news instincts and deep knowledge of the types of articles, essays, and ideas that appeal to editors and the components needed to meet their standards

• Passion for global business issues and big ideas who can work with partners and leaders of other organizations to identify original insights and turn them into publishable materials

• Outstanding interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to challenge and improve ideas diplomatically, including with senior leaders, while building trust and momentum

• Strong project management skills, with meticulous attention to detail

• Enthusiasm for AI, with experience using emerging tools to improve editorial quality, accelerate research and production, strengthen collaboration, or create new forms of content and audience engagement

• Intellectual curiosity and comfort moving across subjects quickly, with the ability to develop informed perspectives on unfamiliar topics without losing rigor or nuance

• Creativity and a willingness to push boundaries

• Ideally, a network of thought-leaders, journalists, and editors at major publications

• Sharp intellect, articulate, and low-ego, with the self-confidence and high standards to inspire excellent work and build a fast, ambitious, quality-driven culture

The applicable base salary range for this role is $140,000 to $230,000.

The base pay offered will be determined on factors such as experience, skills, training, location, certifications, education, and any applicable minimum wage requirements. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis. In addition to the base salary, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.

We are excited to offer a competitive total rewards package which includes health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401K savings and other retirement programs as well as employee assistance programs.

Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit oliverwyman.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X. Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, veteran status (including protected veterans), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected] is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.