Senior Reporter, EMEA, Infrastructure Investor/Senior Reporter – Private Equity
Reporter in our London office. The senior reporter will play a key part – together with Infrastructure Investor’s Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief – in driving our EMEA coverage, across all formats.
Senior Reporter, EMEA, Infrastructure Investor
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Infrastructure Investor team as a Senior Reporter in our London office. The senior reporter will play a key part – together with Infrastructure Investor’s Deputy Editor and Editor-in-Chief – in driving our EMEA coverage, across all formats. The role enjoys a good degree of autonomy in that the person performing it is expected to take the lead in generating story ideas, features and so forth, based on a strong contact book. This is a role for journalists who like to immerse themselves in the market, and ability to establish and maintain relationships with key industry players is crucial. As is the ability to leverage those relationships to produce exclusive, proprietary content that is unavailable elsewhere.
Responsibilities and Duties
· Write and post news, features, op-eds, and multimedia items on a regular basis.
· Pitch content ideas and canvass the latest trends and developments in the asset class.
· Generate exclusive and proprietary content on a regular basis.
· Assist with curating our content hubs and newsletter send-outs.
· Host, transcribe and write roundtables.
· Constant interaction with the market, keeping in touch with existing sources and developing new contacts to consolidate brand awareness and cultivate stories.
· Ensure optimal use of complementary data, involving close collaboration with Research & Analytics, where appropriate.
· When appropriate, collaborate with the PEI Events team, and moderate discussions at events hosted by the Company.
About You
Essential Experience:
· A bachelor’s degree or equivalent
· Experience in journalism or related field
· Developing a network of contacts among senior professionals
· Breaking off-diary stories
· Writing analysis
Essential Knowledge/Skills
· Exceptional organisational skills.
· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
· Ability to research market trends
· Ability to turn complex data into accessible editorial content
· A high understanding of both print and digital journalism and the different approaches required
Personal Characteristics
· Self-motivated and willing to take responsibility
· A team player, recognising the need to collaborate to deliver on the product’s mission
· Comfortable receiving and acting on regular feedback
· Ability to learn on the job and progress quickly
· Resilient under pressure – able to juggle competing priorities and ensure key deadlines are met
· High degree of personal pride in own and company work, constantly striving to improve motivation
Motivation
· Ambitious to meet own personal and organisational goals
· Desire to be part of a dynamic business with high growth expectations
· Keen to stretch self and develop career at PEI
About Us
PEI Group is the leading global provider of business intelligence, data, analytics, and events for private markets professionals.
Through meticulously sourced data, deep analytical expertise, and a trusted journalistic heritage, PEI delivers vital intelligence to sharpen the decision-making of more than 30,000 investors, asset managers, and service providers.
With over two decades of strong growth, PEI operates across ten asset classes including private equity, private credit, private real estate, and private infrastructure, through our portfolio of premium research platforms, membership networks, and global events.
Our 500-strong team operating from six offices, equips private market professionals with the relationships, opportunities, and critical market insights they need to navigate evolving markets and achieve stronger investment outcomes.
At PEI we value diverse talent and welcome applications from everyone – regardless of background. We are an equal opportunity employer and our inclusive culture at PEI is reflected in every stage of the recruitment journey. Please inform us at initial stages of the recruitment process if you require any reasonable adjustments and we can accommodate this.
PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.
Senior Reporter – Private Equity
We’re looking for a Senior Private Equity Reporter to join PEI Group’s welcoming, diverse, and growing team based here in London.
The successful candidate will cover the fast-paced world of private equity for PEI Private Equity in Europe. This position is weighted heavily toward original reporting and involves breaking news, writing exclusives, identifying and analysing trends, as well as producing longer-form features, profiles and columns.
The Senior Reporter will aim to produce content that leads with analysis and informed perspective. This will involve collaborating with editors on ideas, sourcing, and story structures with an eye to delivering valuable information that consistently speaks to our core audience of private equity professionals and advisors.
The Senior Reporter will also take the lead on some projects and will demonstrate leadership in other ways as part of a team of reporters, including potentially editing articles and helping to train reporters with less experience.
Other responsibilities will include writing e-newsletters and articles that profile firms and people, identify and analyse trends in PE transactions and other community developments, including key personnel moves. At all times, the goal is to seek out the impact of those developments rather than merely recounting the news.
For more information about PEI Private Equity, please visit https://www.pei.group/platforms/private-equity/
The successful candidate will:
- Produce at least three articles each week consistent with our mission of delivering exclusive news, analyses, and feature articles
- Break news and deliver scoops frequently
- Author the e-newsletter on a regular basis, beginning with once per week and growing in frequency over time.
- Conduct interviews and actively develop relationships with a network sources, especially private equity partners, investment bankers and other deal advisors, and readers
- Incorporate internal and external data into stories as context and in some instances to inform the angle of the story
- Communicate and collaborate with colleagues across PEI’s Private Equity group as appropriate to optimize content planning, coordination and execution
- Have a strong contact book of private equity practitioners, investment bankers and others in the industry
- Attend industry events (PEI and external, in-person or virtual) and represent the publication as an ambassador. Participate as moderator or other comparable role at such events. Such activities may include travel.
- Assist where necessary with aspects of the content production process, including sourcing PEI data and research, optimizing for SEO/AEO, and identifying and sourcing images for use with articles (photos, charts, etc)
- Share expertise with less experienced reporters on the team and company.
- In alignment with content strategy, use social media, primarily LinkedIn, to amplify content
- Use AI tools in alignment with company strategy and policy
- Potential duties may also include participation in podcasts, videos, etc.
- This role will involve gaining access to and publishing sensitive and privileged information. The reporter will be expected to understand and adhere to journalistic ethics and consult with editors on any potential conflicts.
- Produce tables and infographics
About You
We are looking for someone who is
- Intellectually curious
- Flexible, able to adapt to change
- Deadline-oriented
- Self-motivated
- Comfortable multi-tasking
- Skilled in producing quality longer-form/enterprise journalism
- Strong attention to detail
- Keen to use data within their reporting
Qualification & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in business or financial reporting required
- Has a proven track record of delivering scoops and breaking news
- A proven authoritative voice in the private equity/M&A market and/or specific industry sectors within private equity/M&A.
- Familiarity with social media platforms, such as LinkedIn
- Computer proficiency, such as using the Microsoft Office Suite, online search tools, databases, WordPress, particularly for interrogating data via Excel or other tools
Personal Attributes
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent observation and judgment skills to extract and develop compelling stories
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Strong communication skills that manifest in quality interviewing and clear, concise writing
- Ability to stay organized and calm under pressure
- Strong attention to detail
- Desire to be part of a dynamic business with high growth expectations and global reach
- This role will involve gaining access to and publishing sensitive and privileged information. The reporter will be expected to understand and adhere to journalistic ethics and consult with editors on any potential conflicts.
About Us
PEI Group is the leading global provider of business intelligence, data, analytics, and events for private markets professionals.
Through meticulously sourced data, deep analytical expertise, and a trusted journalistic heritage, PEI delivers vital intelligence to sharpen the decision-making of more than 30,000 investors, asset managers, and service providers.
With over two decades of strong growth, PEI operates across ten asset classes including private equity, private credit, private real estate, and private infrastructure, through our portfolio of premium research platforms, membership networks, and global events.
Our 500-strong team operating from six offices, equips private market professionals with the relationships, opportunities, and critical market insights they need to navigate evolving markets and achieve stronger investment outcomes.
At PEI we value diverse talent and welcome applications from everyone – regardless of background. We are an equal opportunity employer and our inclusive culture at PEI is reflected in every stage of the recruitment journey. Please inform us at initial stages of the recruitment process if you require any reasonable adjustments and we can accommodate this.
PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.
