Publisher Engagement Manager

Kortext; Gildersome; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Publisher Engagement Manager to foster key publisher relationships and enhance engagement with their leading learning platform. This role involves collaborating with various teams to maximize commercial opportunities and providing training on cutting-edge products. As the demand for digital learning continues to rise, your contributions will play a crucial role in empowering institutions and students alike. Join a forward-thinking team that values collaboration and creativity, and help shape the future of education through technology.

Qualifications

• Experience managing publisher relationships and institutional sales.
• Strong analytical skills to support commercial team.

Responsibilities

• Manage institutional opportunities and publisher-related products.
• Deliver training sessions on Kortext products and solutions.

Skills

Salesforce

Publisher Relationship Management

Training and Development

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Experience in Publishing

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

More details

Kortext - The UK’s #1 student learning content and engagement platform

Job title: Publisher Engagement Manager

Location: Remote

Kortext was founded to empower the next generation of difference-makers through engaged, connected teaching and Learning. In a little over five years, we became the UK's leading personal learning platform and supplier of digital textbooks to universities across the country and around the world. We continue seeing large-scale growth as the need for online teaching and Learning increases rapidly.

More than 2,000 universities around the world use the Kortext platform. In addition, we host over 2 million digital books from over 4,500 publishers, providing students and academics with a seamless connection to the required course content embedded with innovative study tools to increase engagement and accessibility.

Our Role

The Publisher Engagement Manager works collaboratively and cross-functionally with publisher services, partnership sales, marketing, and operational teams to manage key publisher relationships. The account manager keeps publishers up to date with the latest Kortext products and solutions, provides training to publisher teams, and identifies opportunities to maximise commercial opportunities within existing institutional business.

The role is home-based with the expectation of travel to monthly/quarterly on-site customer review meetings if required.

Key responsibilities

1. Manage creation of institutional opportunities within Salesforce of publisher related products e.g. Adopt, Publisher Hosted, and Publisher Collection business.
2. Work with publishers and finance to ensure accurate and timely Adopt reporting and billing.
3. Collaborate with publishers to identify advance publication information for ingestion into Kortext.
4. Engage with publishers regarding pricing and licensing for institutional deals to maximise Kortext coverage and revenue.
5. Assist the commercial team with analysis of publisher data.
6. Coordinate publisher and Kortext marketing initiatives to drive engagement at institutions.
7. Promote and implement Kortext wraparound tools and services to support publisher’s institutional business.
8. Provide opportunity leads for revenue growth to the partnership team.
9. Deliver training sessions on Kortext products and solutions.
10. Assist publishers with supporting their institutional customers post-adoption.