Senior Commissioning Editor

6 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Butterworths Limited Company Full time
About the Role

The Senior Commissioning Editor will play a pivotal role in driving the acquisition and development of high-quality research content for Lexis+ in line with Legal Markets' strategic direction.

Key Responsibilities
  • Commissioning new content across multiple market sectors, ensuring the most suitable author/provider is identified to deliver exceptional content.
  • Managing the commissioning process, agreeing content, budget, and deadlines with authors.
  • Preparing strategic summaries of practice areas to inform business cases for new products and enhancements.
  • Contributing to budgeting and re-forecasting processes, owning and managing publications.
  • Developing and maintaining relationships with existing and potential authors to facilitate smooth commissioning of work.
Market Research and Customer Needs
  • Maintaining market and subject area knowledge.
  • Assisting GTMs team with customer visits and gathering insights.
  • Collecting market intelligence on competitors and providing analysis and interpretation.
Requirements
  • Experience in high-quality content commissioning in a publishing firm (Legal desirable).
  • Strong awareness of prioritizing work to deadlines and budget.
  • Attention to detail and management of end-to-end processes.
  • Able to build strong relationships with key internal teams and stakeholders.
  • Able to build strategic relationships with leading law firms and authors.
Work-Life Balance

We promote a healthy work-life balance across the organization, offering numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals to support your immediate and long-term goals.

Flexible working hours allow you to work when you're most productive, and we offer a range of benefits to support your wellbeing and happiness, including a generous holiday allowance, health screening, and access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.



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