Product Mgr II

Elsevier; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 83,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Health benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Share option scheme

Travel season ticket loan

Parental leave

Employee discounts

RE CARES days

Learning resources

ERGs

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Product Manager II to own IAM features, guiding discovery, specs, and delivery. You’ll voice customer needs, translate insights into secure, accessible onboarding solutions, and partner with engineering, design, data, and marketing to align with security standards.

You’ll drive roadmaps, collect feedback, measure success, and manage go-to-market while maintaining a strong focus on customer-centric, data-driven decision making in a hybrid London-based role.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years in a product-focused role.
• Experience owning products, features, or significant areas of product functionality.
• Strong customer focus with the ability to identify and solve customer problems.
• Demonstrated success delivering product improvements with measurable business impact.
• Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation abilities.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of product strategy and business objectives.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; a technical or business-related degree is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own discovery and specs for IAM features through the product lifecycle.
• Define roadmap and translate priorities into a clear development plan.
• Gather customer insights and translate them into requirements and solutions.
• Use data, customer feedback, and market analysis to drive product decisions.
• Own ongoing product functionality go-to-market and support, including stakeholder communications for your product area.
• Own how success metrics are defined and calculated, ensuring they reflect business outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product enhancements.
• Prioritise customer issues, defects, and feature requests for resolution; monitor market trends.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile experience

Data-driven decisions

Analytical skills

Customer focus

Communication

Business awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Product Mgr II

Do you want to shape the future of customer-focused products?

Can you turn customer insight into product innovation?

Location: UK (London Wall)

About Our Team

Our team owns Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Elsevier. We're focused on making access to our products frictionless and secure - driving innovation and modern access solutions that make customer onboarding easier and authentication seamless, without compromising security. We work collaboratively across Product, Technology, Design, Data, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to solve real customer access challenges. We value curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement, and are committed to delivering exceptional experiences for our customers..

About the Role

As a Product Manager II on our team, you will own one or more IAM product features and lead their discovery, specification, and delivery. You will act as the voice of the customer, using market insight, customer feedback, and data to identify opportunities and define solutions that make access and onboarding seamless - while meeting Elsevier’s security and compliance bar.

Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will drive product specs for your feature area, execute against the roadmap, and keep your features running well day to day. This role is ideal for a product professional who enjoys combining customer insight, a user-centric approach and apply data-driven decision-making to deliver solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own discovery and specs for several IAM product features through the product lifecycle - including cross-product functionality.
• Take ownership of roadmap definition for your area, turning priorities into a clear, sequenced development plan.
• Gather customer insights and translate them into product requirements and solutions.
• Use data, customer feedback, and market analysis to drive product decisions.
• Own ongoing product functionality go-to-market and support, including stakeholder communications for your product area
• Own how success metrics are defined and calculated, ensuring they reflect business outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality product enhancements.
• Prioritise customer issues, defects, and feature requests for resolution.Monitor market trends and competitor activity in the identity and access space to inform your product decisions.

Requirements

• Proven Product Management experience, typically with 4-6 years in a product-focused role.
• Experience owning products, features, or significant areas of product functionality.
• Strong customer focus with the ability to identify and solve customer problems.
• Demonstrated success delivering product improvements with measurable business impact.
• Excellent analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and presentation abilities.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of product strategy and business objectives.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; a technical or business-related degree is preferred.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that 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 in a hybrid way from both the office and at home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

Working for you

At Elsevier, 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
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RE CARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteerAccess to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us

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.

If performed in NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg), the base pay range is €71,700 - €119,600.This job may be subject to a collective labor agreement in the Netherlands. Please consult with the hiring team for further details.

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