Assistant Commissioning Editor

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a proactive commissioning professional to manage content from request to publication. You will research and recruit leading authors, negotiate terms, and work to tight timelines and budgets, ensuring high-quality, legally sound content.

You will collaborate with internal teams, analyse usage data, and identify process improvements to boost efficiency and impact across global legal publishing.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage workload effectively.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of translating customer needs into content.
• Ability to plan and deliver content on time and achieve financial budgets and targets.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to edit short commentary pieces for house style.
• Ability to build credibility and positive working relationships with leading legal professionals.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end to end commissioning process from request for content through to publication, working in the prescribed processes with the designated software and tools.
• Conduct comprehensive research to find appropriate authors according to practice area and relevant topics.
• Commission leading authors as identified during the research phase and recommended by the relevant LexisNexis teams.
• Work within specified timelines, deadlines and budgets.
• Negotiate contractual terms across all commissioning work undertaken.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with LexisNexis teams and external authors.
• Continually identify opportunities to improve commissioning processes and increase efficiency.
• Report on usage trends and progress using data analytics and reporting tools.

Skills

Analytical skills

Research skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Organization

Commercial awareness

Time management

Attention to detail

Relationship building

Self-motivation

Collaboration

Adaptability

Multi-priority management

Job description

Are you looking to build a career in legal publishing, project management, or the legal industry? Would you like to work with leading legal professionals and help deliver trusted legal content used by practitioners around the world? About our Team LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), 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. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

Responsibilities

• Manage the end to end commissioning process from request for content through to publication, working in the prescribed processes with the designated software and tools.
• Conduct comprehensive research to find appropriate authors according to practice area and relevant topics.
• Commission leading authors as identified during the research phase and recommended by the relevant LexisNexis teams.
• Work within specified timelines, deadlines and budgets.
• Negotiate contractual terms across all commissioning work undertaken.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with LexisNexis teams and external authors.
• Continually identify opportunities to improve commissioning processes and increase efficiency.
• Report on usage trends and progress using data analytics and reporting tools.

Requirements

• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate the benefits of writing for LexisNexis.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage workload effectively.
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of translating customer needs into commercially viable content.
• Ability to plan and deliver content on time and achieve agreed financial budgets and targets.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to edit short commentary pieces for house style.
• Ability to build credibility and positive working relationships with leading legal professionals.
• Self-motivated, collaborative, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities effectively.

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. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world. Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what's possible for the way our customers work and to advance what's possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.