Senior Content Manager

Glasgow, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate strategic, high‑quality content across CMS’s global offices to drive client conversations, thought leadership, and cross‑practice collaboration, with emphasis on connected services and scalable content governance.

  • Content strategy and governance across international teams to align with client priorities and brand messaging.
  • Cross-functional leadership to shape sector and practice group thought leadership and client-facing campaigns.
  • End-to-end content delivery, from briefing through publication, ensuring timely, high‑quality output and reuse across platforms.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead content strategy and delivery across CMS UK and international offices to support firm priorities and practice initiatives.
  • Shape thought leadership programmes and client-facing campaigns with partners, lawyers, and BD teams.
  • Oversee creation and coordination of reports, articles, assets, client materials, website content, and profile-raising initiatives.
  • Identify opportunities to connect services, sectors and expertise through joined-up, commercially focused content for stronger client conversations.
  • Manage content workflows from briefing to publication, ensuring on-time delivery aligned with CMS branding and messaging standards.
  • Collaborate with marketing, digital, communications and design to distribute and reuse content across platforms and regions.
  • Advise senior stakeholders on content structure, messaging, tone and audience engagement.
  • Contribute to CMS content approach, improving processes, governance, performance measurement and knowledge sharing across teams.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in a senior content role within a large international law firm or comparable professional services environment.
  • Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder content programmes across different audiences, channels and jurisdictions.
  • A strong understanding of how content supports client relationships, profile-raising and business development in professional services.
  • The confidence and judgement to work closely with senior partners and business leaders.
  • Experience overseeing thought leadership and content that supports sector, practice group and client development objectives.
  • Strong organisation and editorial judgement, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
  • Attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high standards of quality, consistency and accuracy.
  • Comfort working collaboratively in a fast-paced, international environment.
  • Experience with digital content platforms, campaign delivery or content governance processes would be beneficial.

Preferred

  • Experience with digital content platforms, campaign delivery or content governance processes would be beneficial.

CMS UK

CMS is a Future Facing organisation of independent law firms. With 80+ offices in over 45+ countries and 6,800+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep local market understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what’s coming, but to shape it. In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, our clear, business-focused advice helps clients of every size to face the future with confidence. We’re immersed in your world. Your interests and priorities are at the heart of what we do. Our lawyers are genuine experts in their fields, with a grasp of detail that’s second to none. Our next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. It means we can anticipate the likely challenges, accelerate our pace and create the space to develop innovative solutions. We’re diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture in which every one of our people, can maximise their potential and thrive.

Founded in 1999
London, England, GBR
3K employees

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