B2B media, data and events business for the food and drink sector
William Reed runs trade media, data services and events for grocery, food manufacturing, retail and hospitality, backed by a marketing-heavy stack of Salesforce, Pardot, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target and Optimizely. Hiring is accelerating and centered on ops, sales and marketing, with a new Risk Resilience Head role and repeated job-post themes around enterprise risk, business continuity and multi-market compliance, a sign the business is formalizing governance as it expands internationally.
Notable leadership hires: Risk Resilience Head
William Reed Ltd is a privately held, family-owned UK company headquartered in Crawley, West Sussex, with 201–500 employees. It serves the food and drink industry through digital and print media, research and data services, exhibitions, conferences and awards. Core audiences span grocery, food manufacturing, food and drink retail, and hospitality, with recruitment services also in its portfolio. Commercial operations run on Salesforce Sales Cloud and Pardot, with Tableau and Power BI supporting reporting, and current hiring is focused in the United Kingdom.
William Reed uses Salesforce Sales Cloud, Pardot, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, Optimizely, Tableau, Power BI, React, Vue, Python, Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating, concentrated in ops, marketing and sales, plus customer success, finance and an executive-level Risk Resilience Head, all based in the United Kingdom.
Job posts point to an enterprise risk and protection framework, business continuity and crisis management, international events partnerships, and social media strategy across multiple event brands.
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