Manager, Solution Marketing – Books – Fixed Term Contract – February to May 2025 (4 Months maternity leave cover)

Would you like to be the voice for our customers? 

Do you love collaborating with teams to solve complex problems and deliver innovative Marketing solutions? 

Location: **We are open to a remote position for a candidate that is in London or Amsterdam Time Zones 

About Our Team

Join our dynamic Researcher & Librarian Marketing Team and become a key player in driving innovative marketing solutions for our valued customers. As part of our team, you will collaborate with talented professionals to solve complex problems and deliver impactful marketing strategies. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects, including go-to-market strategies, product roadmaps, and competitor analyses, all while contributing to the growth and success of our books and journals portfolio. If you are passionate about marketing, customer-centric, and eager to make a significant impact, we invite you to apply and be part of our forward-thinking and inclusive team.

About the Role

You will focus on understanding, articulating, and demonstrating how the portfolio helps to solve customer challenges, doing this through targeted go-to-market planning, messaging, and sales enablement. This will drive the achievement of business goals and improve the position of Elsevier as a valuable partner in increasing the impact and cultivating the success of librarians and researchers in academic or government organizations. In addition, the Audience Marketer will partner with Acquisition, Customer Engagement, and Regional Marketing teams on the delivery of marketing programs in support of commercial goals. This role will have a strong focus on our largest online peer-reviewed knowledge platform, ScienceDirect and the role it plays within the portfolio, as well as supporting additional portfolio offerings on a needs basis. It provides the opportunity to work in a variety of areas, as you will be orchestrating go-to-market strategies, influencing product roadmaps, and performing competitor analyses. It also provides an opportunity to contribute at a strategic level on future growth projects that support the books and journals portfolio and the digital platform that hosts them, ScienceDirect. You will collaborate with colleagues and cross-functional teams to develop use-case based, value-led positioning and messaging for our portfolio. You will be a key contributor to projects to identify new market opportunities in key regions and countries that support portfolio growth. You will work remotely with colleagues all around the world.

Responsibilities

Create compelling, customer-oriented, differentiated value propositions and messaging to support new, cross-sell and renewal objectives and development of customer-facing materials. 

Own and orchestrate the end-to-end go-to-market process for our books business

Bring an analytical, metrics-based approach to measuring, assessing, and improving marketing performance. 

Developing and executing go-to-market strategies for our books business, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and objectives.

Create compelling, customer-oriented value propositions and messaging to support new, cross-sell, and renewal objectives.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Acquisition, Customer Engagement, and Regional Marketing, to deliver marketing programs that support commercial goals.

Requirements

Strong marketing capabilities with experience in B2B solution or Product/portfolio marketing, experience with data platform marketing or complex IT solutions marketing will be a plus. 

A track record in branding, positioning, value proposition development and messaging and the ability to size and analyse markets. 

Have experience working with global sales organisations and knowledge of sales processes 

Show the ability to support the development of go-to-market plans and lead high-priority projects 

Strong communication and people skills - experience in working in a matrix environment with multiple stakeholders and partners preferred 

Strong organisational and project management skills with customer orientated approach 

Ability to work with little supervision and as part of a team 

Experience working with, or deep knowledge of, university research workflows and processes

Knowledge of academic and government buyer and user personas a plus 

Excellent stakeholder management skills and comfortable with presenting to senior stakeholders

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across our organization. With an average length of service of nine years, we believe in providing an environment where you can thrive. Our benefits include parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals to help you meet both your current and future goals.

Working with Us

As an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to your success. Here, you’ll find an inclusive, collaborative, and innovative environment where everyone contributes to our mission. Our teams are diverse and passionate about what they do.

Working for you
 

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
 

Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

Save As You Earn share option scheme

Travel Season ticket loan

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Optional Dental Insurance

Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

Access to extensive learning and development resources

Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

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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