Senior Content Manager / Senior Editorial Lead (12-month FTC)

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy that unlocks growth with purpose. We help clients optimize their marketing, sales, and pricing strategies – turning insight into action and delivering measurable commercial impact. We’re looking for a Senior Content Manager / Senior Editorial Lead to join the Corporate Creative & Content team within Simon-Kucher’s global Marketing Competence Centre. Reporting to the Corporate Creative & Content Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and elevating our global content standards on a 12-month fixed-term contract, with potential to extend.

In this role you’ll act as the editor-in-chief for our global marketing content, coaching a team of writers, quality‑controlling outputs, strengthening processes, and embedding modern content practices (including AI-enabled workflows) across the team. It’s an ideal role for an experienced editor or senior content leader who has worked in a complex, matrixed or professional services environment and thrives on improving content quality, team capability, and operational excellence.

What makes us special:

• Become part of a unique entrepreneurial team. Think independently, use your initiative, and take some risks. Entrepreneurship is a powerful force that drives the growth not only of our firm but our clients and people.
• Unlock the power of opportunity. Advance your career in a thriving company that creates positive impact. We invest in your professional development every step of the way.
• Enjoy balance and flexible working. Be empowered to do your best work – whether it’s remotely or in the office.
• Prioritize your health and wellbeing. No matter where you live, we offer a competitive suite of health benefits to help keep you and your loved ones safe.
• Work in a values-driven culture. At Simon‑Kucher, our vision is to become the worlds leading growth specialist. Our values guide the way we do business and communicate our distinctiveness. They sum up what we stand for, influence our culture, and drive how and why we do things.

How you will create an impact:

• Lead editorial excellence by acting as the senior editor for global and divisional marketing content, ensuring clarity, accuracy, consistency, and strong storytelling across campaigns, reports, digital channels, and leadership materials.
• Develop and coach the content team, providing editorial guidance, structured feedback, and training to build capability and confidence across English- and German-speaking writers.
• Oversee content workflows and quality control, managing resourcing, reviewing key materials, and ensuring timely delivery against priorities.
• Strengthen content governance by refining tone-of-voice guidelines, editorial standards, templates, and approval processes across marketing and the business.
• Embed modern content practices, integrating AI-enabled tools and new production approaches to improve efficiency, consistency, and quality.
• Collaborate closely with creative, digital, and campaign teams to ensure content aligns with brand, messaging frameworks, and campaign objectives.
• Use SEO and performance insights to refine content focus, improve discoverability, and inform continuous improvement.
• Support content creation for flagship projects as needed, applying expert editing and narrative shaping to high-impact materials.

Your profile:

• Significant experience as a senior editor, editorial lead, or content manager, ideally within professional services, publishing, or a matrixed B2B environment.
• Exceptional editing and writing skills, with strong judgment and the ability to mentor and upskill others.
• Experience leading and developing content teams and building editorial capability.
• Comfortable operating in a partner-led, stakeholder-heavy environment, advising confidently on narrative and content decisions.
• Hands‑on experience leveraging existing tools and integrating AI tools and workflows into content creation, editing, and optimization for long-term efficiency and quality gains.
• Sound understanding of SEO principles, digital content formats, and performance analytics.
• Highly organized, proactive, and able to balance strategic oversight with hands‑on editorial involvement.
• Fluent written and spoken English; written and spoken German preferred.

If you’re interested, and if you’d like to offer your skills and commitment to our international team, then we would be pleased to receive your application.

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About Simon-Kucher

Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist.

We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters. If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.

Your personal contact:

Michalina Grzywacz-Wardacka

Michalina.Grzywacz-Wardacka@simon-kucher.com