Job Description
Infopro Digital, the B2B group specialising in information and technology, is currently looking for a Senior Reporter on a permanent contract to strengthen the team at its Insurance Post brand.
Insurance Post is the award-winning publication for the UK general insurance market, providing breaking news, in-depth analysis, and data-led insight for insurance professionals. Our journalism informs, challenges, and connects the industry, helping senior decision-makers understand emerging risks, trends, and opportunities.
Insurance Post is part of Infopro Digital, a B2B group specialising in information and technology. With a presence in 20 countries, the group has 4,000 employees of 79 nationalities.
Join Infopro Digital and get the best of both worlds
Working at Insurance Post offers the opportunity to join an award-winning editorial team within a fast-paced and influential publication, while benefiting from the scale, stability, and international reach of a global organisation, Infopro Digital.
As Senior Reporter, you will be a key player in the Insurance Post editorial team, helping to shape coverage of the UK general insurance market.
You will contribute to a wide range of editorial output, developing your journalistic expertise while producing high-impact content that resonates with a senior professional audience.
Key Accountabilities
As Senior Reporter, you will be responsible for breaking exclusive news, securing interviews with senior industry figures, and delivering insightful features and data analysis on emerging trends and developments in the general insurance market.
Key responsibilities include:
- Writing exclusive news stories and in-depth analysis pieces
- Curating and sending email news alerts
- Staying on top of developments in the general insurance industry and explaining complex subjects clearly and comprehensively
- Developing original and compelling story ideas, including creative formats such as charts, infographics, video, polls, podcasts, and other multimedia content
- Engaging professionally with key industry players in person and via social channels, using these interactions to generate content
- Working collaboratively with editorial and wider business colleagues
The ideal candidate will have the following skills, knowledge, and experience:
- Experience in local journalism or business-to-business journalism
- Proven writing, research, and editing skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent, accurate writing across a range of formats
- Experience developing and shaping stories from concept to publication
- Ability to identify new angles and innovative ways to cover topics and issues
- Knowledge of relevant data sources, industry developments, and key contacts
- Enthusiasm, energy, and a collaborative mindset
- Strong initiative and the ability to perform well in a fast-paced newsroom environment
Additional skills (desirable):
An established network of general insurance industry contacts
Knowledge and experience of using SEO to grow and engage readership
This role is hybrid based in London
We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
A fantastic holiday allowance that increases as you spend longer with the company
Take your birthday off…on us
Access to a 24/7/365 Employee Assistance Programme offering support and guidance around all areas of wellbeing and mental health, including face-to-face counselling.
Access to our extensive learning programmes, through our dedicated platform, Generation Infopro
Paid volunteer days throughout the year where you can contribute your skills and expertise to make a meaningful difference to the lives of others
What you’ll get
Our global employee benefits include:
- 25 days annual leave (rising up to 30 days)
- Group personal pension plan
- Life assurance
- Interest free season ticket loan (STL)
- Childcare vouchers
- Private medical insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee recognition programme
- Employee discount scheme
- Eye-care Vouchers
- Discounted gym membership
- Agile/remote working
- Additional life assurance
- Bike to work
- Buying holiday
- Dental insurance
- Give as you earn
- Add partner to gym membership
- Health cash plan
- Personal accident insurance
Equal Opportunities
- We provide equal opportunities to employees and job applicants and do not discriminate either directly or indirectly, because of any protected characteristic or any other characteristic or activity protected by law. To fully comply with all laws prohibiting discrimination in all phases of employment, we have set up a system of monitoring all job applications, we therefore ask you to complete the equal opportunities questions on this form.
- This information will be collected anonymously, in confidence and will not be seen by anyone directly involved in the hiring process, it will be stored separately and used only to provide statistics for monitoring purposes. There is no obligation on you to provide information. All applicants will be treated the same, whether or not they provide this information.
