Latest Vacancies at LexisNexis

Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively with the team to better understand customers' needs through analytics, research and direct observation
• Making customer-driven recommendations to improve the overall user experience
• Analyzing results of research to recommend solutions
• Working with senior designers to develop product concepts and product designs while following design best practices
• Creating original design assets and introduces new design patterns and guidelines in line with overall styles
• Representing the user’s point of view and impact of design decisions and feature prioritization on them
• Ensuring work is tested with users, collaborating with other functions as needed
• Iterating research methods and work based on testing and data analysis
• Understanding the nuances of designing for different platforms and using data to establish key metrics for projects
• Proposing solutions when faced with a new design problems

Requirements:

• Have a Bachelor’s degree
• Have substantial experience in a UX design role
• Be able to show the ability to communicate conceptual ideas and design, both verbally and visually
• Be keen to develop your own skills and knowledge, and learn new tools and technologies
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to build successful and collaborative relationships
• Have a great working knowledge of User design software (Axure, Sketch, Invsion)
• Have good interaction design skills and attention to detail

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What you’ll do:

• Set up and participate in customer discovery sessions
• Create reports and presentations using available data
• Generate contracts for outside author manuscripts / other outside author-related tasks
• Learn and apply basic editorial legal editing tools and tasks
• Create and generate regular reports and presentations

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent level of education
• Excellent command of English language
• Strong communication skills to speak with customers and authors
• Ability to quickly learn new tasks
• Mastery of basic MS office skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Ability to prioritize and multitask to meet critical deadlines 
• Determination, focus, attention to detail, and motivation to succeed
• Comfort asking questions and making recommendations
• Experience with dashboarding tools like Tableau or Looker (preferred not required)

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Duties and responsibilities

The Strategy Analyst will:

• Work with all team members across the business, to define and build the organizational and analytical processes that will drive the strategy function for Lexis Nexis South Africa.
• Execute on pillar workplans and deliver on key analyses and projects, including multiple types of market analysis, competitive analysis, internal financial analysis, financial modeling, and scenario planning
• Maintain and update strategic scorecard and other tools to assess and drive high-quality execution of business strategy
• Perform certain analyses independently, as needed

Analytical/Decision-Making Responsibilities:

• Strong analytical skills, including data analysis and problem-solving
• Supports the development of a point of view on the current state of the practice by overseeing and conducting research, interviews, and fact-based quantitative analysis
• Supports identification of key market dynamics that will impact the business over the agreed upon planning horizon
• Determine appropriate decision-making processes to answer critical question

Essential Requirements:

• Awareness of key economic and capital markets issues as well as other business trends that could impact the organisation
• General understanding of the key business and financial drivers that determine the organisation’s success
• Project management skills and experience
• Strong written and oral communication skills (including presentations) as well as listening and interpretation skills
• Advanced aptitude in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• High degree of professionalism and integrity
• High energy and results oriented

Experience:

• Experience in a professional environment with strategy consulting experience preferred.
• Exposure to a wide range of data and analytical concepts and methodologies, including:
• Market sizing
• Competitive analysis
• Customer needs analysis / primary research
• Financial modeling and valuation
• Portfolio review (e.g. where to invest, where to divest)
• Forecasting / econometrics

Self-Management;

• Act with Integrity
• Portray act of Self confidence
• Assertiveness
• Be a Self-starter and quick learner
• Problem-solving and solutions orientated Display well organizing skills
• Ability to structure self and surrounding environment
• Strong achievement, orientation and ambition to perform on sales target
• Display Determination and tenacity values
• Bias for action
• Presentability

Qualifications:

• University/Bachelor’s degree in a related subject – e.g. Finance, Economics, etc.
• MBA advantageous

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Responsibilities;

• Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of moderate complexity.
• Complete simple bug fixes.
• Work closely with other development team members to understand product requirements and translate them into software designs.
• Operate in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Resolve technical issues as necessary.
• Keep abreast of new technology developments.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• 4-years Relevant experience for the position level 
• BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
• Strong knowledge of agile software development methodologies and repository management tools such as Git.
• Ability to work in one or more of the following technologies: .Net Core (C#), Java, Angular and/ or React.
• Knowledge of test-driven development. 
• Good oral and written communications skills. 
• Relevant technical expertise in the above areas for this position level.

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Responsibilities:

• Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of simple complexity
• Completing simple bug fixes, and resolving basic technical issues
• Implementing development processes, coding best practices and code reviews, under the guidance of senior engineers
• Operating in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders
• Keeping abreast of new technology developments

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled student working on a Bachelor’s, Masters’s or Ph.D degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Cyber Security or possess equivalent practical experience.
• Must be graduating after June 2024.
• Have a basic knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
• Have a basic understanding of data modelling principles, data manipulation languages and storage systems.
• Have knowledge of development languages, including JAVA/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX and .NET
• Have some understanding of test-driven development.
• Have an ability and desire to learn new processes and technologies.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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Responsibilities:

• Writing and reviewing portions of detailed specifications for the development of system components of simple complexity
• Completing simple bug fixes, and resolving basic technical issues
• Implementing development processes, coding best practices and code reviews, under the guidance of senior engineers
• Operating in various development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.) while collaborating with key stakeholders
• Keeping abreast of new technology developments

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled student working on a Bachelor’s, Masters’s or Ph.D degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Cyber Security or possess equivalent practical experience.
• Must be graduating after June 2024.
• Have a basic knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
• Have a basic understanding of data modelling principles, data manipulation languages and storage systems.
• Have knowledge of development languages, including JAVA/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX and .NET
• Have some understanding of test-driven development.
• Have an ability and desire to learn new processes and technologies.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.