Commissioning Editor / Publishing Editor
Commissioning Editor / Publishing Editor - JREQ017017
Description
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
Business Unit: Legal UKI
Our Legal organisation focuses on connecting our customers’ businesses to the ever-changing legal and regulatory environment. We provide critical online and print information, decision support tools, software and services to lawyers who practice in law firms, in corporate legal departments and in the public sector. We are a growing business in the UK, especially since the acquisition of Practical Law Company in March 2013 and we are very excited about the next stage in our growth and how you can play a part in it.
Commissioning Editor / Publishing Editor
Purpose of the Job:
The Commissioning / Publishing Editor role concerns the commercial management of a portfolio of legal information publications, with responsibility for product revenue and profit as well as content development for individual titles and the portfolio as a whole.
The role involves title and author management of existing publications to ensure the delivery of customer-focused products and services, including the commissioning of new editions and new data as required. To champion the content of products and services to ensure that it is in line with company standards.
Responsibilities:
Product Development and Management
• Accountable for the commercial performance of a portfolio of legal information products in subscription (online, looseleaf, periodical) or book format, to include the commissioning and timely delivery of content cross-media to print, ebook and online.
• Build and maintain high-quality relationships with authors, to include commissioning new authors, negotiating contract terms, and ensuring continued engagement with publishing strategy and future development plans. Authors are often high profile figures including Queens Counsel, partners in top law firms, and other industry experts
• Relationship management involves formal and informal channels, including but not limited to chairing meetings, attending conference or marketing events, and ensuring you keep abreast of latest developments in the field.
• Title management includes working with colleagues to ensure the publishing process, customer support, and sales and marketing activity is appropriate, timely and of high quality.
• Review, develop, the strategic longer-term content plan for key titles or the portfolio as a whole, and follow through to delivery on the plan
• Input into the shorter term plans for individual titles, including costs, pricing levels, revenues, schedules
• Manage costs, including seeking ways to maximise the profitability of your portfolio, and driving through cost savings.
Relationships
• Support Marketing and Segments teams in the development of the sales and marketing plans for project proposals
• Liaise with content delivery departments to plan and implement development of subscription services
• Work with marketing teams and participate in market research activities.
• Work with the Publishing Manager to assist in identifying rights issues and negotiation with content suppliers to optimise the company’s rights position
• Work with editorial, production, marketing and sales to ensure that publishing information is kept up to date
The commercial management of a portfolio of legal information publications, with responsibility for product revenue and profit as well as content development for individual titles and the portfolio as a whole.
Qualifications
Relevant Experience Required:• A graduate with at least relevant and demonstrable Publishing and / or Legal experience
• Knowledge of the legal information market
• Project management
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills
• Ability to prioritise workload to achieve deadlines
• Understanding of product area
• Proven experience of developing new products/managing existing products to deliver revenue and profits
• Product development skills of online projects desirable
Personal Characteristics Required:
• Commercial awareness
• Organised and thorough
• Persuasive, mature communicator – written and oral
• Personable
• Analytical
• Strong results orientation
• Self-starter
• Proactive
• Attention to detail
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
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