Want to lead one of Reuters’ most high-profile global platforms? Want to sit at the intersection of live journalism, global events, and digital engagement—while driving both editorial impact and commercial success? This could be the role for you.
Reuters Events is looking for a Senior Portfolio Manager (Head of Reuters NEXT) to lead the global Reuters NEXT platform—our flagship live journalism series.
Reuters NEXT convenes world leaders across business, government, and society to address the defining issues of our time. Co-curated with Reuters Editorial and amplified globally across Reuters platforms, it is a unique proposition that combines the authority of journalism with the impact of live event, executive-level convening and connection, and digital reach.
With rapid global expansion underway, this role will lead the continued growth of NEXT as a global series, a year-round platform, and a high-value membership community.
About the Role
As Senior Portfolio Manager (Head of Reuters NEXT), you will:
- Lead the strategic and commercial development of the Reuters NEXT global platform, overseeing its continued expansion across regions and formats
- Own the vision and delivery of NEXT as a live journalism product, co-curated with the Reuters newsroom and aligned to global editorial priorities
- Act as a bridge between Editorial, Events, Digital, and Commercial teams, ensuring alignment across content, audience, and revenue objectives
- Drive the global growth of the NEXT series, including new market launches and the evolution of existing flagship events
- Develop and nurture the Reuters NEXT membership community, building a high-value, year-round engagement platform for senior leaders
- Lead business planning, identifying new commercial opportunities, formats, and partnerships to grow the NEXT portfolio
- Work closely with Sales and Marketing teams to drive revenue performance, ensuring strong commercial outcomes across sponsorship, partnerships, and audience growth
- Uphold Reuters’ editorial integrity while enabling innovation in formats, content delivery, and audience engagement
- Introduce new ideas and products that extend NEXT beyond traditional events into a broader global platform
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- Lead, develop, and inspire a global team, managing performance, resourcing, and development across multiple markets
- Operate effectively in a multi-stakeholder, international environment, aligning diverse teams around a single vision
- Collaborate with Event Operations to ensure delivery excellence, budget management, and an exceptional customer experience
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Senior Portfolio Manager (Head of Reuters NEXT), if you have:
- Experience leading complex, high-profile event portfolios or media-led platforms with a strong commercial focus
- A track record of delivering commercial success, growing revenue across multiple channels and markets
- The ability to operate at the intersection of editorial, content, and commercial strategy, balancing integrity with growth
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working across global, cross-functional teams
- A collaborative, solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to align diverse teams around shared objectives
- Experience building and scaling new products, formats, or business lines within a dynamic environment
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders, including editorial leaders, commercial partners, and C-level audiences
- A global outlook, with the ability to work across regions, cultures, and markets
- A passion for innovation and a willingness to test and evolve new ideas
- A strong leadership profile, with experience managing and developing high-performing teams
As part of the role, you’ll work closely with Editorial, Digital, Sales, Marketing, and Event Operations to ensure Reuters NEXT continues to grow as a globally recognised, commercially successful, and editorially authoritative platform—delivering value for customers while maintaining the standards Reuters is known for.
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $0 USD - $0 USD.

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