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Senior Product Manager (Publishing)

Erin Associates
Posted a month ago, valid for 10 days
Location

Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1PG

Salary

£60,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • A Senior Product Manager position is available remotely for a UK-based candidate, offering a salary between £53,000 and £63,000 plus bonuses.
  • The role involves overseeing product development from conception to launch within the journals publishing division of a global publisher.
  • Candidates must have a background in scholarly publishing, specifically in research journal commissioning, along with experience in product development and team leadership.
  • The company promotes a healthy work-life balance with a 35-hour work week, 30 days of holiday, and a 6% employer pension contribution.
  • Successful applicants should expect virtual interviews with a maximum of two stages and will need to demonstrate their expertise in the full project life cycle.
Senior Product Manager (Publishing) Remote (UK-based)
£53,000 - £63,000 + bonuses, 35-hour work week and great benefits

This profitable and well-established organisation require an adept Product Manager to come in and oversee overall product development from conception to launch. You will work as part of the journals publishing division for a global publisher.

This role will involve strategy planning as well as leading a team, whilst collaborating with multiple departments to ensure the successful delivery and commercial success of the product suite.

As Product Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring products are built and developed to meet the customers and market needs with feedback and R&D critical to the team. For this role, you will have a background in scholarly publishing and have worked directly in research journal publishing and commissioning.

The role will be primarily remote, with the expectation of once a month travel to Yorkshire. They also get together for quarterly company days and travel can be expensed.

Package:
  1. 35-hour work week
  2. Up to 20% bonus
  3. 30 days holidays + bank holidays (plus buy and sell 5 more days)
  4. 6% employer pension contribution and much more.
  5. Flexible working opportunities

Experience:
  • Must have experience in journals commissioning
  • Background in the publishing industry essential
  • Team leadership experience would be desirable
  • Excellent communication and collaborative skills
  • Product development experience
  • End-to-end operations knowledge
  • Experience of sales cycles, processes and customers.
  • Expertise of full project life cycle, management and structured development processes

The company have an excellent reputation within their sector and have shown consistent growth year-on-year. They have exciting growth plans, with the intention of doubling their revenue to around £150m per annum, by 2030.

They promote a healthy work-life balance and regularly rank amongst the most flexible companies to work for in the UK. They have also recently been recognised in the top 50 UK employers for gender equality.

Click APPLYto be considered for the role as my client is aiming to interview as soon as possible. All interviews are to be conducted virtually, with the process requiring a maximum of two stages and a short technical exercise.

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If you have not heard back from us within 5 working days, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Your profile may be considered for other suitable vacancies that arise within the next 12 weeks.

Erin Associates welcomes applications from people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and disabilities. Please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application process.


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