Editorial Operations Manager
Listed on 2026-10-11
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Management
Change Management, Operations Management, AI Business & Operations
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 Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (), 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
- 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
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