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The opportunity
Harvard Business Publishing’s Corporate Learning division targets enterprises that recognize leadership development as a source of competitive advantage. The Corporate Learning (CL) team’s expertise is in creating rich, interactive learning experiences that develop leaders who shape their organizations’ futures by making smart decisions at critical moments.
The Senior Solutions Strategist (SSS) is responsible for evolving our solutions in response to client and market needs and in alignment with broader HBP CL strategy. The SSS will represent the overall vision and strategy of our portfolio as well as strategy behind specific offerings. This role entails leading efforts to develop, launch, and evolve our solutions and service offerings, partnering with others across the business to identify gaps and opportunities stemming from market demand or client-led innovation. This role is also responsible for engaging with the Learning Product Group on the development of digital solutions and platforms, bringing the CL voice to influence those efforts.
Reporting to the Director, Solutions Portfolio, this role sits on the Solutions Portfolio team within Strategy Enablement.
What you'll do
- Represent the overall vision and strategy of our portfolio of offerings from idea generation through execution and measurement
- Capture the voice of our market through engagement with clients, client-facing teams, marketing, research efforts, client-led innovation, monitoring industry trends, and more
- Lead engagement with key stakeholders on priorities, key decisions, timelines, and dependencies
- Develop, monitor, and evolve our solution frameworks and service offerings in response to market needs and aligned to HBP CL business objectives/strategy
- Maintain and expand our range of solution components and own their cataloging, maintenance, guidelines for usage, and more.
- Partner with Learning Product Group to bring voice of CL market to influence development efforts
- Drive discovery work and experiments to identify new capabilities we should invest in to meet client needs, through partnerships or otherwise.
- Lead launch efforts in partnership with cross functional team
- Partner with marketing to articulate and refine offering messaging, differentiation and competitive positioning, pricing, and client-facing materials
- Partner with Enablement team on the development of internal enablement plans and sales tools
- Support client-facing teams specifically around their needs for solution information and point of view as they interact with clients and prospects
- Define and monitor measures of success for specific solutions or initiatives
What you'll bring
- 5-7 years in product management or related field, B2B experience and instructional design experience a plus
- A critical thinker with strong business acumen
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills
- Abiliity to develop trusted relationships across functional units
- Data and results orientation
- Demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset
- Highly motivated, acts with enthusiasm, and takes initiative
- Demonstrated ability to drive change and influence without authority
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, global, and dynamic environment
What we offer
As a mission-driven global company, Harvard Business Publishing is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, trust, and engagement where everyone is welcome, valued, respected, and feels they belong. In addition to a competitive compensation and benefits package, we offer meaningful programs focused on career development and employee wellness, such as education reimbursement and early-release Summer Fridays!
HBP is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
$125K - $140K annually
Above is the annualized pay range for this position. In addition, this position includes the opportunity to earn our annual Performance Based Variable Pay Program. Actual salary will be set based upon a range of factors, including external benchmark market data, individual knowledge, skills, experience, location and internal equity.
What We Do
At Harvard Business Publishing, we believe in the power of leadership to inspire, to transform, and to advance the global good. We empower leaders with breakthrough ideas that solve problems, that elevate performance, and that unlock the leader in everyone. We help leaders move the world forward.
Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. We inform and inspire professionals, corporations, educators, and students around the world with the best in management thinking and practice. Through our articles, books, case studies, simulations, videos, learning programs, and digital tools, we reach thousands of organizations and millions of subscribers and social media followers.
With over 600 employees located in Boston (HQ), New York City, Australia, France, India, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, we serve as a bridge between academia and enterprises around the globe.
Our three market units—Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group—produce a variety of media including print and digital (Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review Press books, Harvard Business School cases), events (participant-centered learning seminars, custom events, webinars), digital learning (Harvard ManageMentor, HMM Spark), blended learning, and campus experiences. Through these platforms, HBP is able to influence real-world change by maximizing the reach and impact of its essential offering—ideas.
Working at Harvard Business Publishing brings you into a global, dynamic organization that’s constantly discovering—new markets, new technologies and media platforms, and new groundbreaking ideas. You’ll find your co-workers intellectually curious and highly engaged. We collaborate. We experiment. We are always learning
