Content Manager, Core Editorial & GenAI

LexisNexis; Australia; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Paid parental leave

Volunteer leaves

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® is seeking a Content Manager to lead a team of editors within the Core Content team, ensuring the quality, accuracy and currency of the looseleaf, newsletter and reference content portfolio.

The role requires defining priorities, mentoring staff, managing budgets, and partnering across functions to optimise processes while responsibly integrating GenAI to improve efficiency and content value.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent (legal preferred).
• Sound level of computer literacy.
• Good working knowledge of technologies used in the publishing process.
• Good working knowledge of publishing workflow from idea conception through to receipt by customer.
• Publishing experience (usually upwards of 3 years and across multiple teams).
• Strong relationship-building and performance management skills.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills.
• Demonstrated budget management skills.
• Strong market knowledge.
• Ability to be organisationally effective.
• Demonstrated strong product management experience.
• Excellent communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.
• Collaborates and partners to meet customer needs.
• Challenges the status quo.
• Actively coaches.
• Communicates openly & candidly.
• Shares knowledge and expertise.
• Leads with integrity.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage team to promote common vision, values and objectives; develop inclusive, supportive culture that strives for excellence and is aligned with commercial objectives
• Leading the team through change, to ensure appropriate support is provided, ongoing team engagement and success adaptation/role evolution
• Performance management and employee development, including regular coaching and mentoring and delivering formal performance evaluations; recruitment and training new staff
• Build and maintain cross-functional relationships to drive collaboration, share knowledge and leverage best practices, including sharing GenAI experiments, prompts, learnings, and workflow redesign opportunities within the team, and wider business where appropriate
• Mentor others in leadership and develop management capabilities within the department
• Manage employees, balance workload across team/s and allocate portfolio
• Ensure team members are equipped to build a comprehensive understanding and awareness of developments, legislative reforms, procedures, case law and trends across portfolios to keep products current and relevant
• Delivering content improvements to drive customer value and enhance the portfolio
• Implementation of best practice editorial processes and regular coordination with external vendors to ensure efficient content updating processes and outcomes
• Periodic review of those content creation processes to identify opportunities to leverage technology and improve efficiency
• Drive team adoption of all mandatory global and compliance processes in line with corporate objectives
• Collaborate with relevant operational teams to design and implement efficient processes and promote strong working relationships with counterparts
• Extensive collaboration with operational teams on editorial processes and metrics to ensure content quality and timeliness to market
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate information sharing cross-functionally to support other teams, drive content awareness and support customer awareness of content value
• Utilising content expertise and knowledge to support the construction of new content development business cases and segment analysis
• Responsible for the delivery of content enhancements across the portfolio, and support of content development initiatives across the wider team.
• Overall accountability for team operating within costs budget set across portfolio of titles, and responsibility for reporting and forecasting costs for annual budgets, quarterly reforecasts and monthly analysis

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Cross-functional collaboration

Editorial management

Communication

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

GenAI awareness

Relationship building

Mentoring

Education

University degree

Legal background preferred

Tools

Publishing tools

Job description

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® is seeking a Content Manager to lead a team of editors within the Core Content team, ensuring the quality, accuracy and currency of the looseleaf, newsletter and reference content portfolio.

The role requires defining priorities, mentoring staff, managing budgets, and partnering across functions to optimise processes while responsibly integrating GenAI to improve efficiency and content value.