Strategic Networks Project Manager

Strategic Network Project Management
 

Are you a dynamic and strategic professional with a passion for driving organizational excellence?

Are you looking for a role that offers a challenge while emphasizing the societal impact of your work?
 

About our Team
 

Elsevier’s Global Strategic Networks (GSN) team builds relationships with academic leaders around the world. The Elsevier GSN team engages across the research community to:
- Establish and maintain a broad network of relevant, influential individuals
- Be the voice of the academic leaders, customers, researchers and funders inside Elsevier
- Showcase how Elsevier improves research performance and supports the societal impact of research
 

About the Role
 

The Elsevier GSN team is seeking an exceptional individual to join us as the Chief of Staff & Strategic Networks Project Manager. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in shaping organizational effectiveness and impact; overseeing critical projects, and ensuring seamless coordination across departments. Our ideal candidate possesses good communication, statistical, and project management skills. This position requires teamwork, willingness to learn, and effective multitasking abilities. This role supports the operationalization of activities within the wider Research Networks group.

Responsibilities
 

• Managing high-impact projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and timelines.
• Streamlining communication channels and processes to enhance cross-functional collaboration.
• Overseeing the development and implementation of key performance indicators (KPIs) to track and measure project success.
• Overseeing / driving annual strategic planning process in collaboration with Elsevier’s product and sales teams
• Compiling strategic outcomes and inputs from GSN team; including SalesForce support
• Working with the Elsevier finance team to maintain and monitor budget expenditure reporting
• Creating and maintaining an archive of presentations for Elsevier leadership engagements
• Coordinating activities of the GSN Associates team across APAC, UK, and EU
• Supporting Elsevier senior leadership with client briefings and analytics presentation
• Identifying trends and changes in academic research communities; and in government policies

Requirements

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Comfort level with statistics and data visualization software
• Aptitude for project management
• Strong interpersonal skills; an effective team player who can collaborate with a wide range of constituencies
• Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks and deadline-driven projects.
• Strong interest in data science, the research enterprise and scholarly communication.
• Experience supporting senior leaders with high level engagements
• Enthusiasm for working in a global company with key stakeholders in multiple regions

Work in a way that works for you
 

Elsevier promotes a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 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:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
 

About the Business
 

Elsevier is 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 be