Product Mgr II

Elsevier; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Product Manager to take a product from concept to lifecycle delivery. You’ll work with cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders to deliver value, shape long-term vision, and drive impact for research communities.

Location is Oxford or London, with a cross-disciplinary approach across STM Journals partnerships. The role emphasizes defining requirements, prioritizing features, and measuring success while collaborating with technology colleagues to implement

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering products or product features against measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI-driven product development. Experience with AI components is beneficial.
• Knowledge or familiarity with Salesforce technology is essential. A good understanding of contract lifecycle management would be beneficial.
• Proven experience of building successful relationships with customers and stakeholders, and managing competing or conflicting priorities.
• Be a natural problem solver, confident to take the lead in collaborating across teams to resolve issues.
• Confident working in a changing environment when the way forward can be unclear.
• Strong analytical skills, with proven experience of using data to make or support decisions.
• At least 4 years experience in a Product Manager role.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the solution within a cross-functional agile team, managing priorities and progress.
• Liaise with related stakeholder groups to gather input and feedback on requirements and new business needs for the product, balancing competing needs and making clear priority calls.
• Define and contribute to the measurement of product success metrics.
• Define and shape ongoing development of the product beyond the initial delivery.
• Create and write clear requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria and work with technology colleagues to implement these.
• Oversee, manage and/or perform UAT testing of the solution.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Agile

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Product Manager

How can we make society and third-party publishing partnerships easier to manage at scale ?

Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, working with diverse stakeholder groups to deliver business value and impact?

Location: Oxford or London

About our team

Our Portfolio Growth & Performance (PG&P) Centre of Expertise sits within Customer Experience & Innovation in our STM Journals division. We work to expand the community of researchers we serve, strengthen journal performance and enable a high-performing organization.

About the role

Elsevier publishes 3,000 journals, around a third of which are owned by learned societies or third-party organisations and published in partnership with us. You will take the product from 0 to 1, and then lead its development through the product lifecycle, working in a cross-functional team and with a wide range of business stakeholders to define priorities, deliver value, and shape the long-term product vision.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of the solution, within a cross-functional agile team, managing priorities, and ensuring consistent progress.
• Liaise with related stakeholder groups to gather input and feedback on requirements and new business needs for the product, balancing competing needs and making clear priority calls when required.
• Define and contribute to the measurement of product success metrics
• Define and shape on-going development of the product beyond the initial delivery.
• Create and write clear requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria and work in collaboration with technology colleagues to implement these.
• Oversee, manage and/or perform UAT testing of the solution.

Requirements

• Track record of delivering products or product features against measurable outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI-driven product development. Experience managing products that have an AI component is beneficial.
• Knowledge or familiarity with salesforce technology is essential. A good understanding of contract lifecycle management would be beneficial.
• Proven experience of building successful relationships with customers and stakeholders, and managing competing or conflicting priorities.
• Be a natural problem solver, confident to take the lead in collaborating across teams to resolve issues.
• Confident working in a changing environment when the way forward can be unclear.
• Strong analytical skills, with proven experience of using data to make or support decisions.
• At least 4 years experience in a Product Manager role.

About the business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

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