Editorial Operations Manager

Reed Technology; East Devon; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health screening

Private medical benefits

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Travel season ticket loan

Employee discounts

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in the United Kingdom seeks an Editorial Operations Manager to lead UK-based analytical teams for legal and tax content, embedding AI into workflows to improve quality, scale, and efficiency.

You will drive performance dashboards, cross-functional collaboration, and data-driven decisions while delivering high-impact, accurate content at pace.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading teams in a complex operational setting.
• Bachelor’s degree in law preferred or equivalent legal content exposure.
• Proven AI deployment in content/knowledge workflows and scalable models.
• Strong analytical and commercial insight with data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated leadership through organizational change.
• Strong organisational, process design and project planning skills.
• Proficient with MS Office and project management platforms.
• Experience in publishing or content-driven environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead UK editors delivering analytical content across Legal and Tax portfolios.
• Embed AI into editorial workflows and guide use of AI tools with judgment.
• Set and own KPIs; manage dashboards, schedules and productivity goals.
• Ensure content quality, timeliness and completeness; act when at risk.
• Build cross-training and operational flexibility across UK teams.
• Coach and develop team members; foster accountability and improvement.
• Partner with commercial, global ops and tech teams to align priorities.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Change management

Project planning

MS Office proficiency

Editorial/publishing experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in law

Tools

AI-enabled workflows

Dashboard software

Content management systems

Job description

Editorial Operations Manager (United Kingdom)

Are you excited by the opportunity to lead editorial operations through change and innovation?

Do you want to shape how high‑quality legal and tax analysis is created at scale using AI‑enabled workflows?

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.

About the Role

As Analytical Editorial Operations Manager, you will lead UK-based editorial teams delivering authoritative analytical content across legal and tax portfolios. You will drive operational excellence while embedding AI into editorial workflows to improve quality, scale, and efficiency. This role combines people leadership, data‑driven decision‑making, and cross‑functional collaboration in a fast‑moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of UK-based editors delivering analytical content for Legal and Tax Markets portfolios, including Halsbury’s Laws of England and the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia of the Laws of Scotland

• Embed AI as a core component of editorial workflows, guiding effective use of LLMs and AI‑enabled tools and applying editorial judgment to validate and refine outputs

• Set, own, and communicate performance KPIs; manage dashboards, production schedules, and productivity goals

• Ensure content meets quality, timeliness, and completeness standards, taking action where performance is at risk

• Build cross‑training and operational flexibility across UK analytical editorial functions

• Coach, develop, and evaluate team members, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Partner with commercial stakeholders and global operations and technology teams to align delivery with customer and business priorities

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading and developing people in a complex operational environment

• Bachelor’s degree in law preferred or experience working with legal content

• Proven experience deploying AI in content or knowledge workflows and translating use cases into scalable operating models

• Strong analytical and commercial acumen, with experience using data to drive decisions

• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills

• Demonstrated experience leading teams through organisational change

• Strong organisational, process design, and project planning capabilities

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and project management platforms

• Experience in publishing or content‑driven environments

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 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:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

• Wellbeing programs

• Life assurance

• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

• Save As You Earn share option scheme

• Travel Season ticket loan

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Optional Dental Insurance

• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

• Access to extensive learning and development resources

• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

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 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.

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