Legal Manager, External Authors

LexisNexis; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services company is looking for a Legal Manager to drive content development and strategy. This role involves oversight of content initiatives, team management, and collaboration with various departments, requiring a law degree and project management experience. Work-life balance is emphasized, along with numerous employee benefits.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Various Leave Programs

Educational Assistance

Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Paid Vacation

Up to two days of paid leave for volunteer work

Qualifications

• A Canadian law degree or equivalent with a Certificate of Qualification.
• Proficiency in generative AI usage.
• Legal publishing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Canadian English-language Secondary Content strategy.
• Lead a team of legal professionals and manage performance indicators.
• Budget planning and financial forecast management.

Skills

Project management

People management

Adaptability

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Law degree

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About Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. 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, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the role

LexisNexis Canada is seeking to hire a Manager, Secondary Content for the External Authors Team.

The person in this role is responsible for driving the success of content development and strategy, through financial planning, soliciting customer feedback, and leading a team to high performance.

The team is responsible for publishing dozens of new secondary titles and new editions each year, recruiting authors, negotiating contracts, and ensuring timely delivery of manuscripts.

Reporting to the Director, Secondary Content, this position will include the following:

Responsibilities:

• Oversight of the Canadian English-language Secondary Content strategy: plan English-language content development initiatives, identify opportunities meeting the market needs, assess financial viability of new content proposals, manage portfolio to ensure achievement of publishing calendar, develop and maintain long-term strategy for online and print content that aligns with business goals;
• Budget planning: create and revise budget forecasts, achieve revenue expectations for assigned portfolio, drive accelerations and revenue to meet financial targets and goals;
• Continuous improvement: drive process improvement initiatives, identify cost savings opportunities and implement changes, lead experimentations to meet evolving business needs;
• Team management: lead a team of legal professionals, recruit and optimize resource allocation, delegate efficiently tasks and mandates to the team, develop and monitor performance indicators to maintain a high-performing team;
• Collaboration with internal and external partners: collaborate with Editorial, Operations and Manufacturing teams to ensure optimal processing of publications, work with Marketing and Sales departments to build “go-to-market” strategies, collaborate with Customer Service to address customers queries, identify, develop and negotiate partnerships with external industry partners, build and maintain good public relations with the legal community, authors and industry partners.

Requirements:

• A Canadian law degree, or a law degree from another jurisdiction with a Certificate of Qualification from Canada’s National Committee on Accreditation;
• Experience in project management or coordination;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and achieve results;
• Demonstrated adaptability and solution-oriented;
• Ability to drive change and implement process improvements;
• Strong relationship-building skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of cross-departmental project teams;
• Excellent organizational skills and keen attention to detail;
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and negotiation skills;
• Proficiency in using generative AI or a willingness to become proficient, being open to experimenting with it, championing its use, and integrating it into the team’s workflow.
• Legal publishing experience

This position may be either primarily or fully home-based. Our Canadian head office is located in Toronto, Ontario and we have an office in Montréal, Québec.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Employee Assistance Program
• Various Leave Programs
• Educational Assistance
• Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Paid Vacation
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Writing/Editing, Management, and Legal

• Industries

  Legal Services

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