Manager: Africa Legislation

LexisNexis (Proprietary) Limited Company; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a Manager of Africa Legislation based in South Africa to lead a team delivering South African and Anglophone African legislative content. You will drive editorial excellence, operational efficiency, stakeholder engagement, and content expansion while embedding AI-first ways of working across editorial operations.

The role emphasizes quality, timeliness, and customer value, with responsibility for priorities, capacity planning, and working with

Qualifications

• Law degree (JD or equivalent) is essential.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in legal publishing, editorial operations, or legislative content management.
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage complex editorial workflows.
• Experience embedding AI and automation into editorial processes.

Responsibilities

• Set priorities across South Africa and 12 Anglophone African markets with clear owners and milestones.
• Own content accuracy, currency and timeliness across jurisdictions; monitor quality and backlogs.
• Coordinate bespoke legislation requests from scoping to delivery with business partners.
• Drive online-first strategy while maintaining print schedules aligned with revenue goals.
• Lead daily editorial operations and allocate team resources; drive AI/automation for productivity.
• Develop talent through objective setting, coaching and succession planning.
• Provide senior leadership with data-led reporting on performance, risks and opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Editorial operations

AI in editorial processes

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Education

Law degree (JD or equivalent)

Tools

Legislative content systems

Digital publishing platforms

Job description

Are you passionate about shaping the future of legal and regulatory content across Africa while leading high‑performing teams through innovation and transformation? Do you thrive in a role where you can combine editorial excellence, stakeholder partnership, and AI‑driven operational improvement to deliver meaningful customer impact? 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).

About the Role

Based in South Africa and reporting to the Head of CEMEA Editorial Operations, the Manager of Africa Legislation will lead a team responsible for South African legislation and legislation content across Anglophone African markets. This role drives editorial delivery, operational excellence, stakeholder engagement, and content expansion while ensuring high standards of quality, timeliness, and customer value. The position also plays a key role in embedding AI‑first ways of working and continuous improvement across editorial operations.

Responsibilities

• Market priorities and portfolio delivery: Set priorities across South Africa and 12 Anglophone African markets, balancing content maintenance, expansion, customer needs and capacity; translate business and global strategies into delivery plans with clear owners, milestones and outcomes.
• Quality and Turnaround Times: Own content accuracy, completeness, currency and timeliness across assigned jurisdictions; monitor quality, TATs and backlogs, resolve bottlenecks and implement improvements that accelerate delivery while maintaining editorial standards.
• Bespoke customer requests and stakeholder relationships: Maintain key relationships across Africa and coordinate bespoke legislation requests from scoping to delivery, agreeing requirements, capacity and deadlines with business partners and keeping stakeholders informed of progress and risks.
• Print and Online Strategy: Drive an online‑first approach to accelerate digital content readiness while maintaining print schedules aligned with business priorities and revenue goals.
• Operational Leadership: Lead daily editorial operations, allocating team and contractor resources, managing schedules and resolving capacity risks to deliver agreed priorities. Lead cross‑functional improvements and adopt AI, automation and technology solutions that improve productivity, scalability and customer experience.
• Talent Development: Build a high‑performing team through clear objectives, regular coaching and feedback, structured development and succession planning, strengthening accountability for quality and delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with Content Managers, Quality Leads and cross‑functional colleagues to align delivery; provide senior leadership with clear, data‑led reporting and recommendations on performance, risks, opportunities and decisions required.

Requirements

• Law degree (JD or equivalent) essential; practice experience highly desirable.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in legal publishing, editorial operations, or legislative content management.
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage complex editorial workflows in a matrixed environment.
• Experience embedding AI and automation into editorial processes.
• Familiarity with legislative content systems and digital publishing platforms.
• Strong financial acumen and ability to manage budgets and resource allocation.

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 well‑being initiatives, 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.

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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.

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.

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