Manager, Special Content, Q&D Americas

S&P Global; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Manager for Special Content within the Quality & Digital team. This role involves leading a team of experienced editors, enhancing challenging content, and ensuring it meets customer needs. You'll engage in editorial decision-making, design training modules, and collaborate with various stakeholders on innovative projects. The position offers a unique opportunity to develop subject matter expertise in commodities and present to senior leadership. If you're passionate about editorial excellence and thrive in a dynamic environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Hands-on management experience

Leadership in editorial decision-making

Collaboration with various divisions

Opportunity to develop subject matter expertise

Engagement with senior leadership

Participation in AI tool discussions

Qualifications

• 8-10 years in news agencies or financial publications required.
• Management experience leading teams in newsroom environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality content with strong headlines and market angles.
• Mentor editors and reporters on high-value content creation.

Skills

Editorial Decision-Making

Project Management

Customer Focus

Communication Skills

Mentoring and Coaching

Market Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Journalism

Bachelor's degree in Economics

Bachelor's degree in Communication/Publishing

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance

Tools

Desktop Publishing Software

Content Management Systems

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
11 The Role: Manager, Special Content, Q&D Americas

The Team: The Special Content editing team sits within the Americas Quality & Digital (Q&D) team and is responsible for front-line, deep dive editing on our most challenging content; enhancing all content with prices, graphics, hyperlinks; training editors and reporters on content enhancement and the commodity markets angle. Special Content editors also curate Platts flagship oil publications -- Oilgram News and Oilgram Price Report. The manager is responsible for setting the pace and managing team workload, keeping the team motivated and tracking progress on all projects.

The Impact: This critical role leads a team of experienced, senior editors and puts the candidate at the center of content decision making, guiding the team to pivot on day-to-day publishing workflows and to focus on complex stories that require subject matter editing expertise. The role ensures our content meets the demands of our customers -- price and commodity awareness, fluency in market dynamics and visualization of data in easily digestible formats.

What's in it for you:

• The role provides deep, hands-on management experience in a supportive leadership environment
• You'll be seen as a leader in editorial decision-making, designing training modules, executing on Special Content projects
• You will have the opportunity to collaborate and engage with stakeholders from various divisions and business functions within S&P Global Commodity Insights and S&P Global
• Opportunity to develop subject matter expertise and present to senior leadership at internal meetings and panels
• Be able to leverage and expand your project management experience working with various functions such as Digital, Production and Marketing teams on digital-first Special Projects, multi-media content
• Participate in discussions on the implementation of AI tools, LLM models within S&P Global Commodity Insights and with wider S&P Global stakeholders

Responsibilities:

• Customer at the core: Embrace a customer-first mindset by delivering quality content with strong headlines, bullets, prices, market angles, graphics and relevant hyperlinks
• Team goals: Set individual priorities by understanding and balancing group dynamics, reinforcing strengths and balancing workload
• Personal Growth: Achieve Subject Matter Expertise in commodities through individual stretch projects, ideating on content creation, leading showcase content development and execution
• Training expertise: Mentor and coach editors, reporters, analysts on creating high-value content that resonates with customers
• Special Content management: Set process to track data around customer persona; guide specialist editor decisions; make presentations to Senior Leadership for wider discussion

What We're Looking For:
Basic qualifications:

• Minimum 8-10 years of experience working in a real-time news agency, or Price Reporting Agency or financial news agency/publication
• 3-5 years management experience in leading team of reporters or editors in a typical newsroom environment
• A Bachelor's degree in Journalism or Economics, or Communication/Publishing or Business/and Finance
• Deep understanding of commodity and financial markets, journalistic best practices and media laws
• Prior experience in editing and managing content publication workflows
• Excellent verbal and written English-language skills
• Proficiency in project management, multi-tasking

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to act both independently and as part of a wider global Q&D team
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with stakeholders across different teams, regions and business functions
• Global perspective in executing tasks and implementing projects with inter-divisional/functional stakeholders
• Proficiency in desktop publishing software, different types of content management systems, data visualization and working knowledge of social media posting and publishing is a plus
• Comfortable with implementation and use of LLM tools
• Fluency in Excel, PPT, and good presentation skills are highly advantageous
• Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI a plus

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.
We're a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights' coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.