Jobs at Springer Nature

Drive sales of school books and digital learning solutions to schools, develop customer and distribution-partner relationships, expand market reach, negotiate agreements, and achieve sales, revenue, and collection targets. The role requires consultative selling, business development, market intelligence, CRM usage, strong communication, relationship building, and willingness to travel.

Lead the strategic development, growth, and commercial performance of a portfolio of scientific journals. Responsibilities include setting portfolio strategies, managing publishing and commercial KPIs, launching journals, supporting open-access transitions, identifying acquisitions and partnerships, engaging editors and research communities, analyzing market trends, and representing Springer Nature at conferences and stakeholder meetings.

Manages and grows a portfolio of open access journals, developing annual plans, meeting submission and publication targets, and supporting author and editor engagement. Responsibilities include business development, issue resolution, data-informed planning, contract negotiations, forecasting, stakeholder management, and monitoring publishing industry trends. The role requires strong communication, organization, influencing, analytical, and relationship-building skills, with occasional travel.

Analyze monthly expenses by cost center, prepare budgets and forecasts, investigate variances, and provide financial recommendations. Submit monthly expense information to the UK Finance team while supporting reporting, scenario analysis, compliance, data accuracy, and process improvements. The role collaborates with budget owners, operational teams, the Finance Manager, and Finance Coordinator.

Provides administrative, reporting, and project management support for a portfolio of academic journals. Responsibilities include assisting editors and authors, managing inquiries, preparing reports and presentations, monitoring journal metrics and invoices, maintaining publishing systems, coordinating cross-departmental deadlines, and supporting marketing, social media, ethics, and open-access initiatives.

Lead delivery of software initiatives across multiple cross-functional teams for Springer Nature’s Research Integrity and Manuscript Screening programme. Responsibilities include creating delivery plans, tracking milestones, managing risks and dependencies, coordinating roadmaps and quarterly goals, facilitating agile ceremonies, forecasting capacity, aligning stakeholders, and fostering continuous improvement. The role requires technical fluency, strong communication, leadership, and the ability to mentor teams while ensuring quality, timely, and user-focused delivery.

Copy-edit and proofread scientific journal content, ensuring accuracy, readability, grammar, consistency, figure-text alignment, and adherence to house style. Incorporate author corrections, resolve editorial queries, coordinate with production teams, meet deadlines, and support other sub-editors. The role requires strong English, scientific comprehension, attention to detail, Microsoft Word proficiency, teamwork, adaptability, and a physical sciences degree.

Supports the North American legal team with corporate governance, regulatory compliance, corporate secretarial functions, legal operations, and administrative coordination. Responsibilities include maintaining corporate records, managing filings and document execution, tracking compliance deadlines, supporting KYC and due diligence, administering contracts and legal databases, coordinating litigation and audit records, handling budgets and invoices, and supporting stakeholders, training, and process improvement initiatives.

Provides commercial legal counsel across the Americas, focusing on licensing, intellectual property, technology, AI, data privacy, compliance, and commercial agreements. Drafts and negotiates contracts, advises senior stakeholders, supports litigation and investigations, coordinates discovery, manages external counsel, and assesses legal and business risks. The role also delivers legal training, develops best practices, and partners with sales, publishing, technology, and corporate teams.

Build, operate, and improve unified engineering platforms and core capabilities including Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, storage, and databases. Develop automation, tooling, APIs, and self-service mechanisms; manage platform services end to end; improve reliability, performance, security, and scalability; and support product teams through technical consultancy. Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, contribute to architecture and roadmaps, and lead platform initiatives.

Processes scholarly manuscripts from submission through final decision, performs quality checks, assigns editors, invites reviewers, communicates with authors and editorial stakeholders, monitors manuscript workflows, supports technical checks, and helps improve turnaround times. The role also mentors and trains team members, supports editorial processes, and contributes to performance monitoring and continuous improvement.

Leads the strategic growth and development of a global journal portfolio. Responsibilities include managing and developing teams, launching new journals, tracking portfolio performance, overseeing business results, building relationships with editors and research communities, developing partnerships, and translating publishing market trends into initiatives focused on Open Science, Open Access, and market share.

Manage and grow a portfolio of higher education institutions, language centers, and institutes across Peru. Responsibilities include prospecting, consultative selling, account planning, pipeline and CRM management, commercial negotiations, educational project implementation, stakeholder relationship management, and achieving sales and adoption targets. The role also coordinates with internal teams, monitors customer satisfaction and platform adoption, represents the company at events, and travels extensively throughout the territory.

Build and grow strategic AI partnerships across China, South Korea, and Mongolia. Develop partner success plans, support onboarding and adoption, resolve technical and operational issues, analyze usage data, identify expansion opportunities, coordinate cross-functional workflows, and contribute to regional market intelligence and go-to-market initiatives.

Own the product strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for Springer Nature’s content reading, understanding, and research insights experiences. Lead AI-powered product discovery, experimentation, prioritization, and delivery across cross-functional teams. Improve researcher workflows for literature review, evidence discovery, synthesis, and knowledge creation while driving engagement, retention, and commercial results. Partner with engineering, design, analytics, research, editorial, and commercial stakeholders across the full product lifecycle.

Lead SEO and Generative Engine Optimisation strategy for the Chinese market, improving ScholarLink’s visibility across Baidu, AI discovery platforms, and other local search engines. Conduct technical SEO analysis, develop monitoring and reporting dashboards, translate market and technical insights into recommendations for product and engineering teams, manage specialist vendors, and collaborate with global SEO stakeholders.

Lead strategic business analysis and discovery across portfolio, investment, technology strategy, and transformation initiatives. Develop business cases, evaluate solution options, assess risks and benefits, support M&A due diligence, facilitate stakeholder decisions, and improve alignment between business and technology outcomes. The role also mentors Business Analysts and contributes to business analysis standards and capability development.

Sells digital, print, branded content, and recruitment advertising solutions to scientific recruiters across Europe. Manages existing accounts, develops new business through prospecting and cold calling, prepares customized proposals, maintains CRM records, reports sales forecasts, researches market trends, and attends industry events. The role requires strong customer service, communication, organization, lead generation, and collaboration with internal teams.

Provides engineering leadership across multiple teams, manages and mentors engineering managers and engineers, and contributes to software delivery. Responsibilities include career development, recruitment, performance management, technical strategy, coding, engineering standards, security and data protection, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement. The role partners with technology leaders to execute long-term engineering vision and foster collaborative, customer-focused teams.

Acts as the strategic liaison between Finance, Sales, and Technology, translating business needs into SAP S/4HANA solutions. Develops business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and executive presentations; designs integrations using APIs; manages vendors, support providers, budgets, timelines, and service levels; and drives business intelligence and financial/commercial reporting. Requires advanced SAP FI and SD expertise, Order-to-Cash knowledge, integration design experience, strong business communication, and advanced English.