At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of innovative legal content and harness AI for impactful insights.
- Company: Join LexisNexis, a global leader in legal analytics and technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible hours, wellbeing initiatives, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate globally and make a difference in the legal industry.
- Why this job: Shape the future of legal content while driving innovation and team success.
- Qualifications: Legal qualification and experience in content development leadership required.
The predicted salary is between 121500 - 148500 $ per year.
Are you an experienced legal content leader who is passionate about shaping the future of analytical content and harnessing AI to deliver authoritative insight at scale? Do you thrive in a leadership role where you can influence portfolio strategy, develop high-performing teams, and drive innovation across content development, commissioning, and editorial operations?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law.
About the Role
As Head of UK Analytical Content Development, you will shape and deliver the content development strategy for the UK Analytical portfolio. Leading teams across the UK and South Africa, you will drive portfolio growth, content quality, commissioning excellence, author engagement, and AI-enabled content innovation while ensuring authoritative legal content remains accurate, current, and scalable.
Responsibilities
- Shape the content development strategy for the UK Analytical portfolio, aligned with the Global Analytical team, and manage delivery of the departmental plan.
- Grow the portfolio while maintaining content quality, accuracy, currency, and cost management across the UK portfolio.
- Manage and develop the content development team through coaching, regular feedback, talent development, succession planning, and performance management.
- Oversee author, licensor, and expert relationships, including recruitment, retention, commissioning, and contracting of authored content in partnership with Commercial stakeholders.
- Partner with the Head of UK Analytical Content Operations and commercial stakeholders to translate market and customer needs into portfolio priorities, commissioning plans, and go-to-market plans.
- Develop and monitor meaningful metrics, KPIs, and analytics, including content quality, content currency, author pipeline health, and author cost.
- Lead the adoption and scaling of agentic and GenAI-enabled content capabilities and establish human-in-the-loop validation standards.
- Support content integration activities relating to acquisitions and lead cross-functional coordination of global initiatives affecting content development.
Requirements
- Legal qualification (LLB, LLM, or equivalent) required.
- Experience leading a content development function or team, preferably in editorial, publishing, or content management.
- Extensive people management experience, leading teams through change.
- Experience owning author, licensor, or expert relationships.
- Experience cross-collaborating across global regions and functions.
- Experience partnering with commercial, product, or go-to-market stakeholders.
- Experience with agentic AI and content-technology adoption.
- Experience managing budgets and negotiating contracts.
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world.
We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Head Of Uk Analytical Content Development employer: RELX International
At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration. Our Technology Graduate Program not only provides you with invaluable hands-on experience in cutting-edge technologies like big data and AI but also offers robust mentorship and training opportunities to support your professional growth. Located in a dynamic environment, you'll be part of a team that values code quality and impactful contributions, making your work both meaningful and rewarding.
