Supplier Delivery Lead

OUP; India; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Press in Noida, India, seeks a Supplier Delivery Lead to manage day-to-day delivery of supplier-led educational products, ensuring alignment with quality, schedule, scope, and budget. You will coordinate with UK Product Project Managers and external suppliers to deliver print and digital products.

The role involves developing delivery plans, monitoring milestones, and driving continuous improvement in workflows and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• 5-6+ years of experience delivering projects within publishing, content development, educational products, digital products, or production environments.
• Experience managing external suppliers, vendors, freelancers, or service providers.
• Experience supporting supplier-led project delivery from planning through completion.
• Strong ability to create, review, track, and manage project schedules and delivery plans.
• Knowledge of milestones, dependencies, critical path planning, and delivery tracking.
• Experience within Educational Publishing, ELT, or learning products.

Responsibilities

• Managing supplier-led projects from initiation through to final delivery with UK Product Project Managers and Content Commissioning Leads.
• Developing, reviewing, and maintaining project schedules, milestones, delivery plans, and workflow documentation.
• Coordinating activities across internal stakeholders and external suppliers to keep projects on track.
• Monitoring progress, identifying risks and dependencies, and driving mitigation actions.
• Acting as the primary day-to-day contact for suppliers and building strong relationships.
• Supporting scoping, cost estimation, budget tracking, and forecasting activities.
• Managing project assets, metadata, and workflow governance across systems.
• Coordinating delivery for print and digital products across content, design, media, and production workflows.
• Driving continuous improvement in delivery processes and automation.

Skills

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Supplier engagement

Project planning

Process improvement

Communication

Tools

SAP

Biblio

Salesforce

ClickUp

DAM

Job description

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Title: Supplier Delivery Lead
Department: ELT Product
Location: Sector - 62,Noida, India

About the Role

Introduction

Are you an experienced project delivery professional with a passion for driving operational excellence and managing complex stakeholder relationships? Join Oxford University Press as a Supplier Delivery Lead and play a critical role in delivering high-quality educational products that support learners and educators worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to OUP's mission of advancing education and research while working within a globally connected team.

This role offers the chance to work on a diverse portfolio of print and digital learning products, partnering with colleagues across the UK and India as well as external suppliers. If you enjoy balancing project management, supplier engagement, operational delivery, and continuous improvement, this is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a respected international publishing organisation.

As a Supplier Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of supplier-led educational products and product components, ensuring projects are delivered to agreed quality, schedule, scope, and budget requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing supplier-led projects from initiation through to final delivery in partnership with UK Product Project Managers and Content Commissioning Leads.


• Developing, reviewing, and maintaining project schedules, milestones, delivery plans, and workflow documentation.


• Coordinating activities across internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure projects remain on track.


• Monitoring project progress, identifying risks and dependencies, and driving mitigation actions where required.


• Acting as the primary day-to-day contact for suppliers and building strong, productive working relationships.


• Supporting project scoping, cost estimation, budget tracking, and forecasting activities.


• Managing project assets, metadata, delivery records, and workflow governance across multiple systems and platforms.


• Coordinating delivery activities for both print and digital products, including content, design, media, and production workflows.


• Driving continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance delivery processes, workflows, automation, and operational efficiency.

In this role, you will have a significant impact on the successful delivery of supplier-led products, helping OUP scale delivery capabilities while maintaining high standards of quality, efficiency, and stakeholder satisfaction.

About You

• 5-6+ years of experience delivering projects within publishing, content development, educational products, digital products, production, or similar environments.


• Experience working with and managing external suppliers, vendors, freelancers, or service providers.


• Experience supporting or managing supplier-led project delivery from planning through completion.


• Strong experience in creating, reviewing, tracking, and managing project schedules and delivery plans.


• Good understanding of project milestones, dependencies, critical path planning, and delivery tracking.


• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.


• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.


• Experience within Educational Publishing, ELT, or learning products.


• Knowledge of SAP, Biblio, Salesforce, ClickUp, DAM, or similar systems.


• Experience using AI-enabled workflow, reporting, or automation tools.


• Experience driving process improvements and workflow optimisation initiatives.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

Dependent on skills and experience.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.