Corporate Strategy Manager

RELX; Slough; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Private medical benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Travel Season ticket loan

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Life assurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

RELX Corporate Strategy in London seeks an analytically driven team player to join the internal consulting team. The role offers opportunities to influence senior executives and strategic direction across multiple business segments, with occasional international travel for workshops and meetings.

You will lead strategy engagements, develop insights on market trends including AI, and create clear materials for Board and investor presentations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategic consulting with a top strategy firm.
• Advanced educational background.
• Exceptional qualitative and quantitative analytical thinker with outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage varied projects simultaneously and work with senior stakeholders.
• Think strategically and tactically while paying attention to detail.
• Problem solver who can think creatively.
• Internally motivated, positive, enthusiastic and self-starting.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and cooperative working style.
• Ability to communicate and lead projects in multi-cultural, multi-national environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy engagements, structuring problems, conducting analysis, and developing actionable recommendations.
• Partner with senior team members and business stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives across RELX’s portfolio.
• Develop insights on market trends, emerging technologies (including AI), and their implications for RELX businesses.
• Create clear, decision-oriented materials for senior leadership, including Board and investor presentations.
• Foster a collaborative RELX-wide strategy community, leading forums to share insights and creating networking opportunities across all RELX businesses.
• Support knowledge sharing and best practice development across strategy, product, and commercial topics.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Self-motivation

Interpersonal skills

Multi-cultural collaboration

Education

Advanced degree

Job description

About the team:

The RELX Corporate Strategy team functions as an internal consulting team working closely with our businesses - LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Elsevier, LexisNexis Legal, and RX - to enable and guide the development of robust, long-term value creation plans.

About the role

We are looking for an analytically and intellectually driven individual, team player and self-starter with excellent communication skills to join the RELX Corporate Strategy team. This role has an excellent track record of migrating people into commercial and leadership roles within our businesses and provides significant exposure to and opportunities to influence senior executives and the strategic direction across multiple business segments.

This role will be based in our headquarters in London, with occasional international travel to our various global offices for project meetings and workshops. The role reports into RELX Chief Strategy Officer.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy engagements, structuring problems, conducting analysis, and developing actionable recommendations
• Partner with senior team members and business stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives across RELX’s portfolio
• Develop insights on market trends, emerging technologies (including AI), and their implications for RELX businesses
• Create clear, decision-oriented materials for senior leadership, including Board and investor presentations
• Foster a collaborative RELX-wide strategy community, leading forums to share insights and creating networking opportunities across all RELX businesses.
• Support knowledge sharing and best practice development across strategy, product, and commercial topics

Requirements

• Have proven experience in strategic consulting with a top strategy firm.
• Have an advanced educational background.
• Be an exceptional qualitative and quantitative analytical thinker with outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Be able to manage varied projects simultaneously and work effectively with senior stakeholders
• Be able to think strategically and tactically while paying attention to detail
• Be a problem solver who can think creatively
• Be internally-motivated, positive, enthusiastic and self-starting
• Possess excellent interpersonal skills, high emotional intelligence, and a cooperative working style.
• Be able to communicate and lead projects in multi-cultural, multi-national environments

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:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About the Business

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

The group serves customers in more than 180 geographies and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs over 35,000 people, of whom almost half are in North America. The headquarters is in London. The market capitalization is about £54bn ($56bn), making it one of the 10 largest listed companies in the UK. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, Euronext and NYSE.

The company has four market segments. It develops information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers in the Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions sectors.