Editorial Operations Manager

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health screening

Private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Share option scheme

Season ticket loan

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Dental Insurance

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

RECARES days

Employee resource groups

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in the United Kingdom seeks an Editorial Operations Manager to lead UK-based editorial teams delivering analytical content across legal and tax portfolios. You will embed AI in editorial workflows to improve quality, scale, and efficiency, while driving people leadership and data-driven decision making.

The role requires strong analytical and commercial acumen, excellent communication, and a track record of managing teams through organisational change.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead UK-based editors delivering analytical content for Legal and Tax Markets portfolios.
• Embed AI as a core component of editorial workflows, guiding use of LLMs and AI-enabled tools.
• 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 and collaboration.
• Partner with commercial stakeholders and global operations and technology teams to align delivery with customer and business priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder mgmt

AI in workflows

Editorial operations

Communication

Project planning

Microsoft Office

Publishing content

Education

Bachelor's degree in law or equivalent experience with legal content

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 know your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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. 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.