Content Manager - Research - Hotels, Restaurants and Leisure

Position summary

The Content Manager serves as the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure subject matter expert within the Consumer Goods & Services pod and owns its expert research content coverage. The role identifies the companies, themes and investor questions that warrant coverage; defines and validates the Network Member profiles needed; designs differentiated interview agendas; leads human-moderated one-to-one interviews; and develops recurring programs for execution by Associates. The primary output of this research is the transcript: a written record of each human-moderated interview, published on GLG's Library, our access-controlled research platform, for use by institutional investors. 

The role requires an investor mindset and deep knowledge of Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, including its companies, value chain, financial statements, operating drivers, industry cycles and current debates. The Content Manager must also understand relevant credit, private-market and other investor perspectives well enough to assess the sub-sector broadly; ask incisive questions; challenge superficial answers; and produce content that leaves investors materially better informed.

Key responsibilities

Coverage ownership and research agenda

• Set and maintain the research agenda for Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, including priority companies, themes, catalysts, investor debates and underserved information needs.

• Identify emerging themes, inflection points and content gaps early, connecting macro, sector and sub-sector developments to company-level implications.

• Translate earnings calls, conferences, market events, client demand and usage signals into timely interviews and recurring content programs for Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure.

• Use a shared research foundation to develop several distinct conversations on the same company or topic without producing repetitive content.

Network Member strategy and interview leadership

• Build and maintain a map of the roles, organizations, value-chain positions and geographies needed to answer priority research questions.

Structured programs, quality and collaboration

• Define the research objective, respondent criteria, question sets and cadence for channel checks and other recurring structured programs within Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure.

• Brief Associates executing those programs, review representative output and determine whether it meets substantive research and quality standards.

• Work with Associates and Compliance to resolve substantive questions and carry approved content through publication.

• Capture company briefs, Network Member knowledge, question frameworks and findings in reusable form to strengthen future coverage of Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure.

• Collaborate across the sector pod when sub-sector, asset-class, regional or thematic perspectives would materially improve the research, and contribute to team ideation, knowledge sharing and quality calibration.

• Use AI-enabled research and moderation tools to deepen preparation and improve efficiency, applying judgment to validate outputs.

Required qualifications

• 5–10 years of relevant experience in equity or credit research, buy-side or sell-side analysis, research services, strategy consulting, corporate strategy, primary research or an expert network.

• Deep expertise in Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure, preferably developed through public-equity or comparable fundamental research, with sufficient familiarity across credit, private-market and other relevant investor perspectives to assess the category broadly.

• Experience producing research or insight for institutional investors or another sophisticated financial audience.

• Strong working knowledge of financial statements, operating drivers and the performance indicators relevant to Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure.

• Strong interest in financial markets, company and industry analysis, and business dynamics, with the intellectual curiosity and discipline to maintain deep expertise within Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure.

• Demonstrated ability to translate research objectives into incisive, investor-relevant questions designed to generate differentiated insight.

• Excellent verbal communication and live-interviewing skills, including the ability to probe beyond surface-level responses and challenge senior operators in real time.

Preferred qualifications

• Independent ownership of company, industry or thematic research within Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure that informed an investment, strategy or operating decision.

• Direct exposure to expert interviews, earnings or market-event analysis, or senior-level research discussions.

• Relevant language skills, local-market knowledge, transaction experience or technical credentials for specialist mandates.

• MBA, CFA, CA or a relevant graduate or technical qualification.