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.
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Skills Required
- Track record of delivering products or product features against measurable outcomes
- Familiarity with AI-driven product development
- Experience managing products with an AI component
- Knowledge or familiarity with Salesforce technology
- Understanding of contract lifecycle management
- Experience building successful customer and stakeholder relationships
- Experience managing competing or conflicting priorities
- Strong problem-solving and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to work confidently in changing and ambiguous environments
- Strong analytical skills and experience using data to support decisions
- At least 4 years of experience in a Product Manager role
Elsevier Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Elsevier and has not been reviewed or approved by Elsevier.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests paid time off spans vacation, holidays, sick days, bereavement, military leave, and volunteer time. Family-related leave options are also emphasized as part of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests medical, dental, vision, life insurance, wellness initiatives, and an EAP form a comprehensive health offering. Gym support and wellbeing hubs reinforce an ongoing health and wellness focus.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests retirement programs include a 401(k)/retirement plan and pension options, with long-term savings vehicles such as an employee stock purchase plan also available. These elements contribute to a sense of financial security beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, and deliver better care. Because informed decisions lead to better outcomes, Elsevier is a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems. Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
