About our Team:
We work with researchers, institutions, governments, and funders to help knowledge move faster and further.
The A&G and STMJ Technology team partners across Elsevier to build digital products that make it easier for researchers to share their work, stay informed, and increase the impact of their research. We also support institutions and funders with tools and insights that help them understand research performance and make better decisions.
About the Role
We are looking for a Project Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of strategic technology initiatives supporting our Academic & Government, STMJ, and Corporate Markets business units. This role focuses on delivering meaningful outcomes, enabling data-driven research and public impact through well-governed, collaborative project delivery.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to plan, deliver, and embed solutions that create measurable business value and align with Elsevier’s broader technology ecosystem.
Responsibilities
Project Delivery
- Lead projects from discovery through delivery and benefits realisation.
- Translate business priorities into clear, achievable delivery plans.
- Define project scope, milestones, risks, and success measures.
- Ensure projects support scalable, sustainable solutions and improve customer experience.
- Track progress, manage dependencies, and adapt plans as needed.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with product, engineering, data, and business teams to align on objectives and outcomes.
- Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly with stakeholders at all levels.
- Foster transparency, shared understanding, and timely decision-making.
Agile and Delivery Practices
- Plan and deliver complex or multi-stream initiatives using Agile or hybrid approaches.
- Coordinate workstreams including technology delivery, change management, operations, and go-to-market activities.
- Manage budgets, forecasts, resourcing, and delivery risks with a focus on value.
- Ensure appropriate governance, reporting, and alignment with organisational standards.
- Identify risks early and implement practical mitigation strategies.
Continuous Improvement
- Promote effective project management and change practices.
- Contribute to a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support and mentor less-experienced delivery team members where appropriate.
Requirements
- Experience delivering complex projects end-to-end in a dynamic environment.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
- Clear, inclusive communicator, comfortable working across different levels and functions.
- Ability to translate strategy into practical, executable plans.
- Strong planning, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Experience managing budgets, resources, and delivery timelines.
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, or scaled delivery approaches (e.g. SAFe).
- Familiarity with delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar.
- Experience with data, digital platforms, analytics, or GenAI technologies is an advantage, but not required.
Work in a way that works for you:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career.
Access exceptional benefits: from RECARES days to wellbeing programs, private healthcare, generous leave policies, and continuous development opportunities.
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
- Experience delivering complex projects end-to-end in a dynamic environment.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
- Clear, inclusive communication across levels and functions.
- Ability to translate strategy into practical, executable plans.
- Strong planning, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
- Experience managing budgets, resources, and delivery timelines.
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, or scaled delivery approaches (e.g., SAFe).
- Familiarity with delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar.
- Experience with data, digital platforms, analytics, or GenAI technologies.
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
RELX Insights
What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
