Market Insight and Trend Reporter

Market Insight and Trend Analyst 

Product and role overview

Do you have a passion for research and writing? A nose for an interesting story? An eye for potential future trends?

LexisNexis is seeking candidates with an interest in developing a career in business, financial or legal journalism to support the development of its practical guidance product, Lexis®PSL. The role will be based in our Market Insights team, and will involve a unique combination of research, data analysis, and writing news stories, blog posts and trend reports across all areas of legal practice.

The role focuses on the development of our Market Insights offering, providing news, data, statistical analysis and trend reports in relation to company transactions and corporate governance. Our team of Trend Analysts review market developments, analyse the information, and consult expert practitioners to provide market insight drawn from a range of sources in the form of news stories and trend reports. It is a challenging and varied position that involves data monitoring, data analysis, data visualisation, researching, writing, editing and commissioning, and it is essential that candidates can demonstrate an ability to manage a wide, varied workload and show initiative in generating content ideas independently.

This is an exciting time to join us as we are currently expanding the scope of our product. You will be joining a small team focused on developing our content offering and the role offers a great deal of autonomy and creativity, giving you the unrivalled opportunity to influence the direction of your development within a FTSE 20 company.

We would welcome applications from graduates in any field, although this role is particularly well suited to candidates with a background in writing and/or journalism that are keen to move into a role covering business, legal and finance matters. Advanced proficiency in Excel and/or experience in developing a product without a prescribed roadmap are also highly desirable skills for this post.

Key responsibilities

• Sourcing, managing, analysing and summarising legal and regulatory news and deal information from third party news feeds and publicly available documents and announcements

• Shared responsibility for the creation of a daily alert and a weekly newsletter focused on transactional developments, news and trends

• Monitoring legal and regulatory developments and evolving our content strategy in response to market developments

• Conducting market research to ensure that our product coverage remains current and relevant

• In-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of deal and market information to assess the development of trends and to contribute towards periodic trend reports and webinars across a range of areas of legal practice

• Writing news, analysis and trend reports in response to developments in legal practice

• Researching law firm thought leadership and contacting practitioners for comment where appropriate

• Highlighting interesting clauses and information to our team of in-house corporate lawyers and working with them to create model precedents, in-depth analysis and comment

• Working with the Market Insight team to explore ways in which to access, summarise and analyse public information and data and to design creative and innovative ways in which to present data and trend analysis

• Dealing with ad hoc queries related to corporate deal activity

• Contributing to the development and market presence of a fast-moving legal technology product

• General administrative tasks to support the effective running of the team

Skills and knowledge

• An interest in corporate law, financial markets or business

• Interest in writing and publishing

• Confidence in dealing with queries – both from within the team and other areas of the business

• Experience in working on a news desk/generating news stories highly desirable

• Highly motivated and well organised

• Good time management skills

• Ability to prioritise a varied workload and co-ordinate work from a number of sources

• Excellent attention to detail

• Ability to learn quickly and to assimilate complex information

• Ability to work well under pressure to meet tight publishing deadlines

LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on  1.855.833.5120.

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