Head of UK Analytical Content Development

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Head of UK Analytical Content Development to shape and deliver the UK portfolio strategy. You will lead teams across the UK and South Africa, driving content quality, commissioning excellence, and AI-enabled innovation while ensuring accurate, current, and scalable legal content.

You will partner with Editorial Operations, Product, Technology, and Commercial stakeholders to meet evolving customer needs and manage budgeting, talent development, and

Qualifications

• Legal qualification required (LLB/LLM or equivalent).
• Experience leading a content development function, preferably in editorial, publishing, or content management.
• Extensive people management experience, leading teams through change.
• Experience owning author, licensor, or expert relationships.
• Experience cross-collaborating across global regions and functions.
• Experience partnering with commercial, product, or go-to-market stakeholders.
• Experience with agentic AI and content-technology adoption.
• Experience managing budgets and negotiating contracts.

Responsibilities

• Shape the UK Analytical content development strategy and deliver the departmental plan.
• Grow the portfolio while maintaining content quality, currency, and cost management.
• Lead and develop the content development team through coaching and performance management.
• Oversee author, licensor, and expert relationships in partnership with Commercial stakeholders.
• Translate market needs into portfolio priorities, commissioning plans, and go-to-market plans.
• Develop metrics and analytics for content quality, currency, and author pipeline health.
• Lead the adoption and scaling of AI-enabled content capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation.
• Coordinate with acquisitions and align global content initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Content strategy

Editorial operations

Stakeholder management

AI/GenAI adoption

Budget management

Education

Legal qualification (LLB/LLM or equivalent)

Job description

Head of UK Analytical Content Development Are you an experienced legal content leader who is passionate about shaping the future of analytical content and harnessing AI to deliver authoritative insight at scale? Do you thrive in a leadership role where you can influence portfolio strategy, develop high-performing teams, and drive innovation across content development, commissioning, and editorial operations?

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 Head of UK Analytical Content Development, you will shape and deliver the content development strategy for the UK Analytical portfolio. Leading teams across the UK and South Africa, you will drive portfolio growth, content quality, commissioning excellence, author engagement, and AI-enabled content innovation while ensuring authoritative legal content remains accurate, current, and scalable. You will play a key role in transforming content development through the adoption of AI-enabled capabilities, partnering closely with Editorial Operations, Product, Technology, and Commercial stakeholders to meet evolving customer and market needs.

Responsibilities

• Shape the content development strategy for the UK Analytical portfolio, aligned with the Global Analytical team, and manage delivery of the departmental plan
• Grow the portfolio while maintaining content quality, accuracy, currency, and cost management across the UK portfolio
• Manage and develop the content development team through coaching, regular feedback, talent development, succession planning, and performance management
• Oversee author, licensor, and expert relationships, including recruitment, retention, commissioning, and contracting of authored content in partnership with Commercial stakeholders
• Partner with the Head of UK Analytical Content Operations and commercial stakeholders to translate market and customer needs into portfolio priorities, commissioning plans, and go-to-market plans
• Develop and monitor meaningful metrics, KPIs, and analytics, including content quality, content currency, author pipeline health, and author cost
• Lead the adoption and scaling of agentic and GenAI-enabled content capabilities and establish human-in-the-loop validation standards
• Support content integration activities relating to acquisitions and lead cross-functional coordination of global initiatives affecting content development

Requirements

• Legal qualification (LLB, LLM, or equivalent) required
• Experience leading a content development function or team, preferably in editorial, publishing, or content management
• Extensive people management experience, leading teams through change
• Experience owning author, licensor, or expert relationships
• Experience cross-collaborating across global regions and functions
• Experience partnering with commercial, product, or go-to-market stakeholders
• Experience with agentic AI and content-technology adoption
• Experience managing budgets and negotiating contracts

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.

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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions. Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.