Job Description

NZ Texts Lead (Parental Leave Cover, 0.7 FTE)

Auckland or Wellington | Hybrid | 12-month Fixed Term

About the Team

Join the LexisNexis New Zealand Content team—a collaborative, innovative group dedicated to delivering trusted legal information and solutions. You’ll work closely with content, product, marketing, and sales colleagues, as well as a network of respected authors and industry partners. Our team values knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, innovation and supporting each other to achieve great results.

About the Role

As NZ Texts Lead, you’ll own the P&L and drive the success of our legal texts and custom content publishing program. This is a 12-month, part-time (0.7 FTE) parental leave cover role, based in Auckland or Wellington (hybrid/home-based). You’ll coach junior commissioning editors, manage key relationships with authors and partners, and help shape the future of legal publishing in New Zealand.

Responsibilities

• Manage all NZ text publications (print/digital), delivering ~15 books/year

• Oversee budgets, costs, and revenue for the texts portfolio

• Develop new content proposals and present business cases

• Build and maintain relationships with authors, stakeholders, and the legal community

• Liaise with marketing and sales to maximise commercial outcomes

• Provide coaching and support to junior commissioning editors (no direct reports)

• Ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget, and to quality standards

Requirements

• 3–5 years’ experience in commissioning/editorial or similar publishing roles

• Strong commercial acumen and financial management skills (budgets, P&L)

• Excellent project management and stakeholder liaison abilities

• Law degree (or adjacent field: accounting, tax, politics, economics) highly regarded

• Awareness of the NZ legal market and publishing workflow

• Leadership and coaching skills (without direct reports)

• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance

• Life assurance and income protection

• Option to buy additional Annual Leave days

• Volunteer leave and wellness initiatives

• Birthday leave

• Employee Assistance Program

• Flexible working arrangements

• Benefits for you and your family

• Access to learning and development resources

• Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes

About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

To learn more about opportunities with LexisNexis or RELX Global, join us here:

https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-nz

https://www.relx.com/careers/join-us

Please note: Our offices will be closed for the annual holiday shutdown from late December to early January. Applications will be reviewed as soon as we return, and we appreciate your patience during this period. If you apply during the shutdown, we’ll keep you updated on next steps as soon as possible in the new year.

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