Commercial Editor - 12 month contract

As Commercial Editor, you’ll be responsible for the quality, effectiveness and performance of our editorial partnerships, with a focus on Lifestyle, Retail or Business & Finance. Working closely with Brand Partnerships Leads, you’ll help win pitches, deliver standout content, and ensure every partnership drives real results — for clients, for subscribers, and for the Telegraph.

Telegraph Media Group’s Editorial Integrated Partnerships team is growing fast. We create partnerships that enhance our journalism and subscriber experience while giving brands meaningful access to our highly engaged audience. With strong momentum and continued investment in the team, this role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact and grow your career within a high-performing, creative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead clients in shaping strong, commercially effective editorial ideas that deliver meaningful results, including driving engagement and subscriptions. You’ll oversee content quality at every stage — from pitch through to commissioning and delivery.
• Own the editorial direction and quality of all partnership content across digital, video and page production, ensuring every element is fully briefed, on brand, and signed off to the highest standard.
• Ensure all Editorial Integrated Partnership (EIP) content is delivered to brief, on time, and to Telegraph house style, maintaining consistently high editorial standards.
• Edit copy to an exceptional standard before it enters the sub-editing process.
• Work closely with Project Management and Sales teams to ensure partnerships are planned, costed, and delivered efficiently, optimising performance throughout each campaign.
• Take ownership of partnerships within one core area, Lifestyle, Retail, or Business & Finance, while remaining flexible to support other categories when needed.
• Source, manage and negotiate on-screen or featured talent for campaigns, ensuring relevance, quality and strong commercial value.
• Act as a subject-matter expert across processes, client communication, compliance and legal requirements, SEO best practice, and the effective use of technology.
• Collaborate with sales colleagues to develop proactive partnership ideas and refine pitch decks that win new business.

Requirements

• Proven editorial, organisational and communication skills.
• First-class team player – self-motivated and proactive in making suggestions/improvements, finding solutions and relentlessly aiming for the highest-quality content and results that matter for clients – and inspiring others to do likewise.
• Good contacts book of freelance writers.
• Peerless client skills and experience, and excellent industry insight (commercial and editorial).
• Top of your field in terms of proactive content ideas, commissioning, editing and managing successful projects from pitch to PCA.
• Extremely comfortable working to tight deadlines and under pressure and have a can-do, problem-solving attitude.

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website.