Open Positions Available at Relx

Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of secondary titles, including textbooks, loose-leafs, newsletters, and/or law reports.
• Creating and maintain author relationships for existing publications, ensuring timely receipt of manuscript in proper format.
• Coordinating reviews on manuscripts to ensure they adhere to our author guidelines and provide feedback to authors.
• Sourcing appropriate articles for newsletters, and arranging permission to republish them.
• Identifying authors or freelance legal writers for new and existing publications; and developing new publications.
• Drafting and negotiate publishing contracts.
• Acting as the first point of contact for authors and colleagues for publications within your portfolio.
• Completing various administrative tasks, including data entry, processing invoices, scheduling customer interviews, etc.

Requirements

• Experience in legal editing or holds an LLB.
• Have legal practice or legal publishing experience.
• Display organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
• Able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and to meet rigid and frequent deadlines.
• Possess interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of cross-departmental and cross-jurisdictional project teams.
• Maintain communication (oral and written) and negotiation skills.
• Able to work flexible hours to collaborate with authors and colleagues across multiple time zones.
• Core hours are 12pm – 6pm SAST, but flexibility to attend meetings beyond 6pm SAST on a regular basis is required.
• Possess Technical proficiency with Acrobat and Microsoft Office, and comfort learning new software and tools.

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Responsibilities

• Working closely with stakeholders to understand and finalize requirements
• Implementing development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews
• Acting as the initial point of escalation for software development issues
• Completing complex bug fixes, resolving technical issues, and working with complex data models
• Managing your team, including hiring, training, planning, assigning and directing work, appraising performance, and giving appropriate feedback
• Encouraging new ideas from staff to foster improvements through innovations and empowering them to be accountable

Requirements

• Have a BS degree in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Have experience with various resource models such as Managed Services and/or Staff Augmentation
• Have an advanced knowledge of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
• Have extensive knowledge of industry best practices in external resource development
• Have the ability to partner and lead internal and external technology resources in solving complex business problems
• Have an excellent understanding of data modeling principles, data manipulation languages, and storage systems
• Be an expert in development languages, including JAVA/J2EE, JavaScript, JSP, C/C++, HTML, XML, SQL, Windows, UNIX, and .Net
• Have previous experience in people management and show an aptitude for achieving business objectives through managing others
• Be proficient with data manipulation language including optimization techniques
• Be proficient in AWS, NoSQL, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch

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Responsibilities

• Reviewing new and existing content for quality and legal accuracy, and making recommendations for process improvements
• Monitoring of developments and inputting information to maintain trackers of consultations, cases and dates
• Drafting practical guidance content (e.g. FAQs, practice notes, precedents, trackers, checklists, trackers etc.)
• Collaborating with external authors regarding externally written content
• Arranging and taking notes at Editorial Board and other meetings and liaising with attendees where required
• Conducting legal research and liaising with subject matter experts within the Practical Guidance practice area teams
• Drafting replies to queries from customers within a specified response time
• Applying taxonomy to news items consistently and accurately
• Supporting the development and implementation of initiatives to grow and improve the current awareness offering

Requirements

• Have a degree in Law, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrate an eye for detail and a quality oriented focus. Be able to demonstrate excellent research and writing skills
• Have a good understanding of legal issues, procedures and content types
• Be able to think creatively, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work to strict deadlines
• Be able to communicate influentially and effectively to a range of audiences, including senior stakeholders
• Be a natural, innovative problem solver, able to collaborate with your team to resolve issues
• Have an understanding of, and willingness to use, social media and new technology

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Responsibilities

• Actively call customers to promote and sell LN products and services
• Use CRM to record prospective sales and maintain up-to-date pipeline data.
• Generate quotations and send to customers.
• Follow up on quotations sent to close deals.
• Demonstrate LN product to prospective customers.
• Provide info to management re pipeline etc. as required.
• Keep abreast of LN products and services

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of outbound telephone sales experience – preferably B to B.
• Be computer literate with the ability to utilize standard software applications that include MS Office suite
• Have a tertiary qualification or be studying towards such - preferably in the field of law.
• Be a great communicator and be able to demonstrate LN online products.
• Be target driven and motivated to exceed targets 
• Be self-motivated and self-disciplined

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Responsibilities

• Collaborating cross-functional teams, including product and marketing communities to develop and maintain our web platform sites
• Assisting in the tools designing and implementation to improve performance and sustainability of our infrastructure and sites
• Troubleshooting defects and issues with timely response and resolution to meet targeted service level agreements
• Writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Learning new applications and platforms to provide effective and efficient support
• Staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices

Requirements

• Demonstrate experience in Software Development and software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)
• Demonstrate understanding of JavaScript, React, CSS, and HTML for development and defect triage and resolution
• Able to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Able to learn new technologies quickly, good problem-solving and communication skills
• Show familiarity in web development tools and libraries
• Experience with version control systems such as Git, knowledge with content management system(s) and working with Magento platform

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Responsibilities

• Monitoring various systems to ensure customers have access to data solutions’ products and services
• Monitoring data quality, managing data supply and preparing reports
• Resolving incidents involving technical failures or issues of data quality
• Managing escalations from Customer Support
• Ensuring data delivery from suppliers and reviewing data incorporation on LexisNexis data stores
• Developing professional role with working knowledge in own discipline, and broadens capabilities
• Working in a moderate level of guidance. I.e train or mentor new colleagues and provide input to employee performance evaluations
• Applying theories and processes proficiently

Requirements

• Display knowledge of basic concepts and procedures
• Demonstrate previous database experience and basic development experience
• Use existing procedures to solve routine or standard problems
• Show understanding of key business drivers