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Responsibilities

• Build and maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of manuscript in proper format.
• Develop, update, and adhere to production release schedules in compliance with customer and business needs.
• Assure receipt of complete manuscript, supporting documentation, and release highlights for all publications.
• Copyedit and review manuscript for substantive accuracy, with consideration for functionality in all media, and observing the conventions of the product itself and LexisNexis.
• Implement operational efficiencies to support best practices and adherence to publishing milestones.
• Support marketing and sales activities by collaborating with colleagues to create content for sales campaigns and training, value statements and other information as requested.
• As determined by Director, contribute to initiatives as needed, including competitor analysis, content expansion, new product development, Practical Guidance, CLE, sales training, tool testing, or other new initiatives that may arise.

Requirements

• LLB or equivalent legal degree 
• Prior publishing experience or legal practice experience strongly preferred
• Excellent interpersonal skills, a positive attitude, and professional demeanor for routine contact with geographically diverse authors, colleagues, customers, and vendors.
• Strong editorial skills; attention to detail, style, format, consistency, and quality.
• Time management skills to meet rigid and frequent deadlines.
• Technical proficiency preferred, including mastery of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), familiarity with XML/HTML content management systems, and a basic understanding of Continuous Improvement methodology (Agile, Lean Six Sigma, automation fundamentals process excellence).
• Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate collaboration across multiple time zones. Core hours are 12pm – 6pm SAST, but flexibility to attend meetings beyond 6pm SAST on a regular basis is required.

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Responsibilities

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and improve performance.
• Developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve business objectives.
• Providing strategic guidance and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.
• Conducting research and analysis, using data and data analytics, to inform decision-making on key business issues.
• Monitoring industry developments and the overall market to inform adjustments in strategy.
• Providing guidance and support to senior leadership on strategic decision-making.

Requirements

• Have a solid background in strategic planning and implementation
• Have a relevant Honours Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics and MBA
• Possess exceptional leadership and communication skills to effectively lead a team.
• Able to adopt critical thinking, be analytical and detail-oriented
• Able to collaborate, support and drive team members to deliver on results, providing technical and professional guidance
• Be able to analyze market trends and identify growth opportunities.

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Responsibilities

• Working with content managers to effectively expand and maintain South Africa's legal taxonomy.
• Supporting Lexis+ functions, we design, develop, and manage taxonomies, metadata, and source specs.
• Organizing legal content based on topics. The system follows classification rules, making it easier to program and navigate through the content.

Requirements

• Able to understand across various practice areas
• Able to collaborate, negotiate and influence
• Able to devise complex searches to retrieve relevant content as well as the ability to distinguish content that is on-point.
• Able to have good technical ability and an aptitude for learning several proprietary taxonomy management and classification systems