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Description

We are the world’s largest university press. That means we serve the academic community as no other publisher can. We work in partnership with institutions and learned societies to bring a world of knowledge to the fingertips of students and researchers worldwide.

The goal is impact. Together with our academic communities, we curate and seamlessly connect together the ideas that push their fields forward, so they can learn from them, add to them, and continue a virtuous cycle of scholarship.

And because we are a part of the academic community and guided in everything we do by our mission, we re-invest in our people, our publishing, and the world-leading research institution of which we are part.

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Advancing Knowledge and Learning

About The Role 

A market-facing role that is responsible for deploying market-facing surveys that inform the development of new acquisition proposals, that gather market feedback on existing product to inform revision plans, and that gather feedback on drafts of content under development. Also responsible for project-managing and curating teaching support materials in line with the needs of instructor customers, and according to schedule, brief, and budget, working directly with content authors/subject matter experts to produce the required materials. 

Key Accountabilities include:

• Market and Higher Education (HE) ecosystem expertise: Maintain an accurate and dynamic understanding of the competitive environment and customer (lecturer, student) needs by interacting directly with our customers, through reviews, surveys, direct engagement (virtually and in person, e.g. at conferences), and VoC; by completing detailed analyses of our competitors’ products; and by analyzing third-party data on the markets in which we compete. 
• Coordinating the market review of new proposals: research reviewers, issue review invitations, set deadlines/follow up, collate and anonymize reviews. 
• Market validation of content: Coordinate external peer review of draft manuscripts with a view to gaining necessary market validation and, in parallel, seeding the market for future adoptions. 
• Curation of teaching support materials and services: Commission and coordinate the preparation of market-required resources to support the use of our content and products in the classroom. Evaluate content for quality and fit with market need according to project specifications, while looking for ways to minimize investment in these free resources. Draw on usage data (where available), market feedback, and other metrics to inform strategic decisions about which supplements to support. 
• Project management: Manage projects to ensure their completion to brief, schedule, budget, and in line with available resource. Actively maintain awareness of costs during content development through to market launch. Manage the author relationship prior to submission of their content to ensure their work fully meets the agreed specification and contractual requirements. Draw up clear and comprehensive author guidance, and adopt working practices that ensure authors adhere to this guidance. 
• Data hygiene: Ensure project tracking systems and CRM systems, particularly Oxford Publish and Salesforce, are up to date with accurate data 

About You

• Highly literate and numerate.
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills. 
• Ability to work well on your own initiative and to be proactive in solving problems.
• Ability to work well in collaboration with a variety of team members.
• Able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail at all times.
• Experience with digital education products.
• Familiarity using various search tools (including AI) to find solutions. 
• Excellent written communication as well as strong interpersonal and verbal skills.
• Demonstrable ability to learn and effectively use different IT systems and software.
• A demonstrable interest in learning design.
• A demonstrable interest in the publishing industry, with some prior experience of higher educational publishing preferred.
• Experience with sciences preferred but not essential.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 10 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance. 

We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings. 

Position Location: This role can be done in a hybrid environment in New York City, NY or Cary, NC (2 times a week in office). This role can also be done in a remote environment in the United States. 

GJC Level: S3 (for internal purposes only) 

Salary: $53,307 dependent on skills and experience

This role is part of the OUP USA News Guild Bargaining Unit.

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