Senior Manager - Research & Analytics - Academic Publishing

Do you enjoy working with data and analytics, and see the value this adds in the publishing arena?

We have an extremely interesting role, working for a highly regarded, global publisher in the Oxford area as a Senior Manager within the Research & Analytics department. This role will involve leading a variety of specialists, tasked with data provision and analytics, around sales; customers and regions; product and content (including bibliometrics); marketing and web, and primary research.

This is a key role in the team where you will make an impact and work with stakeholders across the company.

What does the role involve

• Managing specialists and developing strategy in the areas listed above
• Gather, interpret and augment analytical requirements from the business, anticipating future reporting needs
• Ensuring that time-tabled and one-off strategic analysis is delivered on time, in order to support benchmarking, sales and product developments and feed into strategic decision making within the business
• Ensuring the provision or targeted consultancy, training, knowledge management and short-cut tools to support the undertaking of smaller scale analysis by the wider business
• Present at society bids, editorial meetings and industry conferences
• Lead, performance manage, mentor and coach team members

What is the ideal experience required for this role

• Strong knowledge of academic publishing and the key data types that support analysis within academic publishing, especially around citations and bibliometrics
• Experience of leading a team, mentoring and coaching
• A proven record of delivering both quantitative and qualitative data which informs evidence-based decision making in the academic publishing industry
• High-level experience in gathering and interpreting business data requirements
• Experience making successful presentations to external audiences

For further details on this highly interesting role, please send your CV with a short covering letter, outlining your salary expectations.