Summary of the UK Companies Editor job at Financial Times

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The role

We are looking for a UK Companies Editor to take charge of corporate coverage in our biggest market and make it shine. 

This is a senior position on the companies team, which involves working closely with the companies editor and deputy companies editor to help steward coverage more generally and assist with the smooth running of the desk. This role could be reconfigured depending on the successful candidate’s experience and skills.

The UK Companies Editor has wide latitude to commission stories and shape our coverage in pursuit of sharp news and analysis and exclusive agenda-setting content. 

The role would suit an experienced corporate reporter with a desire to move into editing or an editor with financial knowledge (and almost certainly reporting experience). 

We care about breaking news and producing agenda-setting analysis on the biggest household names in the FTSE, from BP to AstraZeneca to Unilever. But the UK corporate scene also offers a wealth of other names that resonate with FT readers, from upstart fintechs and successful VCs to privately-owned companies like Octopus Energy. 

This editor needs to be a creative and proactive commissioner, with ideas for how to make UK corporate stories well read globally and how to package content together to make the biggest impact. 

This role requires occasional Sunday shifts as part of the companies desk rota and may involve occasional early shifts when required. 

Additional responsibilities could include:

• Coordinating coverage and commissioning across the companies desks, and liaising with the tech desk and other teams

• Motivating reporters and actively working with them to get scoops and deep dive corporate reporting over the line

• Liaising with editors in the US and Asia to coordinate and plan coverage

• Ensuring the text of our stories sings and the non-text elements are compelling

• Conceiving, planning and commissioning special projects, including series, investigations and data or visually-led story-telling

• Representing the Companies desk at morning conference where needed

Please submit your application by 8pm on 9th July 2026.

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