Head of UK Analytical Content Development

Overview

As Head of UK Analytical Content Development, you will shape and lead the UK Analytical content strategy, guiding teams across the UK and South Africa to grow the portfolio while safeguarding content quality and accuracy. You will drive AI-enabled content innovation and collaborate with Editorial Operations, Product, Technology, and Commercial teams to meet evolving customer needs. This role combines strategic portfolio leadership with hands-on people management and stakeholder engagement. You will shape the expansion of authoritative, scalable legal content and ensure it remains current and cost-efficient.

Pay / Benefits

• wellbeing initiatives
• shared parental leave
• study assistance
• sabbaticals

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the UK Analytical content development strategy aligned with global goals
• Grow and maintain content quality, currency, and cost management across the UK portfolio
• Develop and coach the content development team with performance management and succession planning
• Oversee author, licensor, and expert relationships, including recruitment, retention, commissioning, and contracting
• Collaborate with Commercial stakeholders to translate market needs into portfolio priorities and commissioning plans
• Develop metrics and analytics for content quality, currency, author pipeline, and costs
• Lead adoption of agentic and GenAI-enabled content capabilities with human-in-the-loop validation
• Support content integration for acquisitions and coordinate cross-functional global initiatives

Key requirements

• Legal qualification (LLB, LLM, or equivalent)
• Experience leading a content development function or team in editorial, publishing, or content management
• Extensive people management experience, including leading through change
• Experience managing author, licensor, or expert relationships
• Experience collaborating across global regions and functions
• Experience partnering with commercial, product, or go-to-market stakeholders
• Experience with agentic AI and content-technology adoption
• Experience managing budgets and negotiating contracts

• leadership
• stakeholder engagement
• change management
• agentic AI
• GenAI-enabled content capabilities
• content-technology adoption

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