Principal Product Manager, Scopus

Principal Product Manager I
 

Interested in playing a critical role in taking a successful product to the next level?

Do you enjoy tackling complex challenges?

About our Team

We are the product management team responsible for Scopus, a scientific literature discovery, and analytics tool used by millions of researchers, librarians, institutional research managers, and funders worldwide. It leverages high-quality, linked, and curated content, along with various signals that provide insights to our users.

Our team is agile, diverse, and international. We fully embrace iterative, evidence-based product development with a strong emphasis on meeting customer needs. We take pride in contributing to make the world a better place by supporting the research community.

About the Role

We are seeking an accomplished Principal Product Manager with a track record of over 5 years in product management to join our team. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Scopus, a flagship product for Elsevier.

You will be part of an awesome squad responsible for a key Scopus user journey, responsible for prioritizing most impactful works to maximize user satisfaction and commercial outcomes. Your deep understanding of the market and customers, along with your ability to bring rapid prototyping with data and technology, is essential.

In addition, you will be a driving force in forming and executing the product strategy, translating high-level objectives into actionable plans, and overseeing their implementation.

As the representative of the product team, you will lead and facilitate extensive company-wide alignments. This will involve collaborating with various teams as well as senior stakeholders to ensure that the product aligns with the broader company strategy.

Responsibilities

• Establish and execute the overall product strategy.
• Cross-functional leadership, driving alignments across various internal teams.
• Engage with senior stakeholders on key initiatives.
• Represent the team in internal meetings and customer conferences.
• Lead quarterly and annual planning and prioritization.
• Identify areas of improvement within the product management team and work toward improving them.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience or equivalent, with a proven track record of business growth.
• Deep understanding of customer and business requirement (or have relevant experience in an industry with similar dynamics, as this will serve as the foundation for quickly learning about customer and business requirements).
• Ability/experience of defining and executing a product strategy, including the customer discovery process and GTM strategy.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills to drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities to represent the team effectively.
• Strong analytical capability to use data and experiments to drive decision making
• Experience in working in a matrix organization.
• Ability to coach other team members.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

Working for you

As a spearhead of good employment practices, your health and wellbeing are of great importance to securing your future. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Dutch Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office or commuting allowance
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
• Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
• Internal communities and networks
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