Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

The role oversees a team of Editorial Leads, Legal Editors, Legal Analysts, and external vendors responsible for processing and publishing legislative law content available digitally and in print, ensuring the portfolio\xe2\x80\x99s quality, currency, and functionality. This must be done in the context of strict adherence to the publishing schedule and compliance with standards, including editorial benchmarks and quality assurance measures.

To effectively carry out the duties of the role, the Head of Legislation is required to have close interaction with support staff and operations personnel and drive continuous improvement in relation to global processes, internal team processes, and processes that cross over with stakeholders and vendors. The Head of Legislation is responsible for assisting the teams to meet overall portfolio responsibilities and managing external vendors providing editorial processing tasks to ensure business priorities are met.

Additional responsibilities of the role include interaction with licensors as required, dealing with/ briefing vendors, content ownership, accountability and management through tracking and reporting on operational metrics and analytics. The Head of Legislation is required to work closely with the in-market Content Strategy/Commercial teams regarding scheduling and delivery of content and solutions.

The Head of Legislation will become proficient with the various systems and processes relevant to the role and proactively create documentation and share knowledge as necessary to grow the teams\xe2\x80\x99 capabilities. The Head of Legislation will also periodically be called upon to support the adoption and enhancement of editorial systems within Asia and the Pacific as well as collaborating with members of the Global Legislative & Regulatory leadership team and community.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate accountability and ownership of content and titles within the Head of Legislation portfolio;
• Be responsible for the quality, timeliness of delivery, and responsive to the currency of the content within the portfolio;
• Ensure adherence to SLA targets for delivery of content, and assist with management of the publishing schedule;
• Actively support, and sometimes step in as, Product Owner for roll out of enhancements to editorial systems (ECJ, CaaS, etc.) touching team processes or portfolios.

• Lead teams by promoting common vision, strategy and objectives;
• Managing a team of staff with diverse skills (XML/HTML coding, Legal editorial, desktop publishing, and other incidental positions) to meet a variety of business goals, aligned with commercial priorities;
• Delegating and getting things done through others;
• Coaching and mentoring, knowledge sharing, performance management, career development;
• Regular monitoring of employee output and capacity, effective guidance in delivery of responsibilities;
• Actively drive a high performing customer-facing culture;
• Increase EOS scores.

• Ensure portfolio meets operational performance metrics;
• Assist in competitor benchmarking and ensure product performance metrics are market leading;
• Track and measure variance to publishing schedule;
• Manage key contractor, vendor and/or supplier relationships to meet processing benchmarks and delivery of content on time, to standard
• Create new metrics as required to keep publications competitive in the market, identify and improve on key value props and implement new efficiencies
• Partner with Asia and Pacific Regional Leads on planning and product development
• Partner with in-market teams on product enrichment, development, scope and customer requirements

• Support the in-market commercial product owners with content related queries and developments;
• Assist Customer Operations with customer queries and issues;
• Build effective relationships with colleagues, customers (internal and external) and management to ensure efficient execution of tasks and roadmaps;
• Participate in Global Legislative projects

• Develop and improve the performance of the portfolio;
• Assist with product enhancements and product roadmaps;
• Identify strategic opportunities and lead product development and UAT for enhancements to content and/or editorial systems
• Partner with Global Legislative leadership to deliver global harmonized processes and global teams

EXPERIENCE

Education: Specialized/ Technical

• Tertiary Education Qualification required (Law, Arts/English, Technology);
• Computer skills in Microsoft 365 Suite, Team Collaboration Tools (MS-Teams, Trello) InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Internet skills;

Experience

• Prior legal practice experience preferred;
• Experience in publishing strongly preferred (experience with legal publishing advantageous), with sound working knowledge of publishing workflow from idea conception to delivery to customer (Digital and Print);
• At least 3+ years of people management;
• Experience with financial reporting and budget management;
• Demonstrated experience managing external vendors

Competencies

• Good communication skills;
• Strong commercial acumen;
• Experience in project management and an ability to work to tight deadlines;
• Sound legal, language and grammatical ability;
• Excellent organization and problem-solving skills;
• Process excellence skills
• People management \xe2\x80\x93 coaching and mentoring skills, ability to discipline and lead team;
• Leadership skills \xe2\x80\x93 ability to lead team, define team strategy and set goals.

LexisNexis Values & Leadership Essentials

• Passion for Winning \xe2\x80\x93 ability to achieve and deliver results;
• Boundarylessness \xe2\x80\x93 ability to work across multiple teams and departments;
• Valuing Our People \xe2\x80\x93 shares knowledge and fosters talent within the team specifically and the business generally
• Challenges the status quo \xe2\x80\x93 always looks for ways to improve and always asks for the context and driver for projects to ensure best practice implementation aligned with commercial goals
• Leads with Integrity \xe2\x80\x93 models the LN values and meaningfully translate business priorities for direct reports and able to work with teams in different locations/ offices
• Drives to Deliver
• Collaborates and Partners to meet Customer Needs

About Us

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. The Group serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs over 33,000 people, of which around 1/4th are technologists.

We want RELX to be a great place to work, where our employees feel valued, have equal opportunities and benefit from pay equality, regardless of their gender, gender identity, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age or disability status. Inclusion and diversity are important to our future. We need the engagement of people from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and ideas to achieve real innovation for our customers around the world.

About LexisNexis Legal

We are at the forefront of Legal Tech. 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 monitoring relevant news. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help advance the Rule of Law across the world.

Every day at LexisNexis, you will work with highly creative minds to explore impossibilities, inspire innovation, and lead the way 21st century legal content is produced, disseminated, and utilised. You have the power to empower those in need and truly make a difference to the lives of people all around the world.

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