Commissioning Editor,Korea(12 months contract)

Are you passionate about shaping market-leading legal content and building strong partnerships within the legal and publishing ecosystem in Korea? Do you thrive in a role where you can combine editorial expertise, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen to deliver impactful, online-first content solutions for customers?

This position manages the commissioning and delivery of Legal Content for Thomson Reuters Korea, focusing on content licensing and acquisition for Korean legal content under an “Online First” strategy. The role involves identifying and maintaining content partners, validating and testing legal content, managing editorial processes, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.

About the Role
In this opportunity as a Commissioning Editor, you will:

• Source, evaluate, and collaborate with licensors, authors, and subject-matter experts to identify, scope, and secure new legal content aligned with our "Online First" strategy.
• Oversee commissioning, manuscript delivery, and third-party editing processes, ensuring content moves smoothly from concept through to publication.
• Review, validate, and test Korean legal content across platforms and environments to ensure accuracy, clarity, and practical usability for customers.
• Track legislative amendments, regulatory updates, and enforcement rules, and ensure timely internal communication and content updates.
• Cultivate long-term relationships with authors, partners, and key stakeholders in the legal and publishing industries to secure high-value content and collaboration opportunities.
• Contribute to financial and product targets through effective content licensing, performance tracking, and continuous enhancement of customer experience.

About You
You're a fit for the role of Commissioning Editor if you have the following qualifications:

• Proven experience in legal content development within a legal publishing or related professional information environment.
• Strong content management skills, including planning, commissioning, editing coordination, and delivery to schedule.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and nurture editorial and author relationships over an extended period (typically 5+ years).
• Excellent problem-solving skills with an entrepreneurial, proactive mindset and the ability to work independently.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and align multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret and understand Korean legal materials (legislation, regulations, enforcement rules) and translate them into practical, user-focused content.

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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. 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.

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