Manager, Codes Editorial

Manager, US Codes - Editorial

Role Summary:

The US Codes Editorial Manager is a member of the Global Primary Law Editorial management team. They are responsible for management of US Editorial Codes teams and for driving the successful fulfilment of the department goals. Codes Editorial produces statutory and regulatory content, as well as court rules, KeyRules, Rules Calendaring content, statute indexes, and FormBuilder content, for Westlaw, print, and other media.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Manager, Codes Editorial, you will:

• Manage Codes editorial teams responsible for acquiring, integrating, enhancing, and publishing legislative content on Westlaw and in print.
• Provide day-to-day leadership for meeting department, product, people, and business goals and objectives, including setting overall team direction, performance, and work assignments.
• Manage individual and team performance to ensure alignment and support of department and organization strategy and initiatives.
• Collaborate with other Codes Editorial managers to prioritize work across the editorial group and to align resources to support highest priority work.
• Collaborate with internal and external contacts, including Product Management, Content Design & Development, Editorial AI teams, Codes Operations, and vendors or sourcing partners; share best practices and drive messaging around quality and timeliness.
• Effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure deliverables meet expectation.
• Proactively problem solve and handle escalated issues as needed.
• Exhibit and encourage innovative thinking with application to staffing, processes, systems, and relationships, both internal and external.

As a manager, you will be responsible for:

• The quality and timeliness of content within specific products including both print and online Codes content.
• Meeting assigned schedules, targets, and budgets within the Editorial team, including balancing and shifting project allocation/people's time within the team based on changes to priorities.
• Identifying development areas and growing talent through timely feedback and coaching to direct reports, as well as effectively addressing under-performance.

• Contributing to the creation of tools and enhancements that drive Codes production, including optimization processing and machine learning.
• Executing on business plans to meet or exceed US Codes-based product, content, revenue, cost, and growth goals.
• Establishing, building, and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders and customers, may act as a representative of the organization.

About You

You are a fit for the role of Manager, Codes Editorial if your background includes:

• Four-year college degree.
• Experience with legal content and/or editing/publishing environment.
• In-depth knowledge of production processes, editorial standards, products, and system(s).
• Understanding of how customers use legal products and the impact of decisions on the customer's use of legal products.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Strong oral, written, and presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical problem solving and organizational skills.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Strong technical aptitude.
• Ability to identify and evaluate process improvements opportunities and new technologies.
• Ability to plan and manage multiple projects and effectively multi-task.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to manage in a virtual, matrix and global environment.
• Some travel may be required.

#LI-DS4

What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

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 applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

Protect yourself from fraudulent job postings click here to know more.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on https://thomsonreuters.com.