Managing Editor, Firstlinks

About Morningstar

At Morningstar we believe that investing can transform lives and we are committed to improving investor outcomes. A key way we achieve our mission is to provide insights to investors through our web properties. We believe that when the investor wins, we all win.

At Morningstar, your contributions have meaning and can drive change. We offer a place where talented, driven people can grow. Our differences are our strength; the fact that we don’t all think the same way and encourage unique perspectives helps create great products and services for our clients.

The Opportunity: Managing Editor, Firstlinks

Firstlinks is one of the leading investing newsletters in Australia providing content written by financial market professionals with experience in wealth management, superannuation, banking, academia and financial advice. Firstlinks aims to improve investor knowledge on markets, regulations, and structures for a sophisticated audience of individual investors and financial professionals.

The Managing Editor, Firstlinks will be responsible for the overall editorial direction of Firstlinks which includes authoring articles, third-party content sourcing and editing, content curation, managing the weekly publishing process and sponsor engagement.

You are motivated by a passion for helping people achieve better investment outcomes and developing an independent and unique voice in the crowded space of advice on financial matters. You will be charged with planning, commissioning and editing articles, features, videos, podcasts, etc. to assist investors with investment idea generation and making sense of market movements.

You will establish a network of potential contributors at fund managers, superannuation funds, banks, financial advice providers and academic institutions.

This position reports to the Director - Editorial & Content in Australia.

What you’ll do:

• Work closely with the editorial leadership team to execute the content strategy.
• Responsible for ideating, sourcing, producing, and editing original stories for the weekly Firstlinks newsletter.
• Collaborate closely with sponsors to build and maintain pipeline of content.
• Monitor important developments in investing, markets, and broader topics that impact investors with a view to produce engaging and valuable content for Australian investors.
• Develop expertise and contacts in various asset classes, asset management firms, and the overall industry and investing sphere.
• Assist in SEO optimisation efforts as part of our overall content strategy.
• Track performance of content and provide feedback to authors and stakeholders to help boost engagement and traffic.

What we’d expect you’d have on day one:

• Experience as a journalist covering investing and personal finance or as a financial services professional who is interested in exploring a career shift.
• A plan to establish and operationalise an editorial agenda that expresses a work plan that stretches out four weeks.
• SEO optimisation experience.
• Begin to establish relationships with internal and external stakeholders and collaborators by organising an internal listening tour.
• Begin to establish yourself as the audience expert for Morningstar in Australia: individuals as well as professionals.

Qualifications & experience required:

• A bachelor's degree
• Proven skill in writing and editing content for individual audiences.
• Proven ability to identify topics that are relevant to an audience and execute content that engages and satisfies them.
• 5+ years of experience.

Human skills:

• Superior oral and written communication skills in English
• An ability to operate independently whilst being a key member of a wider team
• A high threshold for quality.
• Empathy and the maturity to own and learn from challenges.
• Almost-insatiable curiosity. “Almost,” because research must ultimately be turned into tangible results from which our audiences can benefit.
• Passion for connecting with industry professionals and building a network.

Other useful things to have:

• An established network in the Australian financial services industry.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

Key skills/competency

• Editorial Direction
• Content Curation
• Financial Markets
• SEO Optimization
• Network Building
• Investment Knowledge
• Writing
• Editing
• Stakeholder Management
• Communication