Job Description

We are the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

OUP\xe2\x80\x99s Academic Division publishes world-leading digital book and reference products including Oxford Scholarship Online and the Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Purchased by libraries and delivered via our best-in-class Oxford Academic platform, these products aim to deliver academic content to researchers when, and how, they need it.

We are looking for an Associate Product Marketing Manager to own the successful launch of new products and services to a range of internal and external audiences. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be at the heart of the product development process, becoming an expert on our products, customer personas, market opportunities, and the competitive landscape.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll be doing

You\xe2\x80\x99ll work closely with our product team to develop positioning, messaging and marketing strategies for a product portfolio. You\xe2\x80\x99ll create launch plans and work with marketing colleagues to deliver them, working collaboratively to drive demand and usage. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also ensure that sales and other customer facing teams have the language and tools they need to successfully land products in the market.

This role is ideally suited to someone who wants to be at the forefront of our strategy and mission, gaining valuable experience of working with a wide range of functions across the publishing process.

Activities will include:

• Developing a deep understanding of your product portfolio and its audiences, to become the subject matter expert for the sales and marketing teams
• Developing and implementing product marketing strategies, aligned to business priorities, taking a data-driven and experimental approach to ensure success
• Advocating for external stakeholder needs in the product development process, whilst navigating multiple priorities to drive the best outcome for each product
• Taking complex ideas and/or technical developments, and creating a compelling brand and story to take to market, ensuring it is consistently used across all channels
• Developing and implementing successful marketing campaigns, including budget management and reporting on success

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires 2 days a week in the Oxford office. In this role, the set day you will be expected in the office is a Tuesday.

About you:

Essential:

• Ability to engage audiences though creative and compelling marketing stories and campaigns
• Ability to be proactive and work independently, asking questions of yourself and those around you to ensure the best outcome for the projects/products you work on
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to make and maintain connections across teams
• Strong problem-solving skills, being able to analyse a problem and implement creative solutions
• Ability to think strategically about products and markets, understanding where we are now and where we want to be, and then translating that into tactical success
• Ability to think outside of your role and immediate remit to advocate for your products and their stakeholders

Desirable:

• Experience of academic publishing and an understanding of the institutional research landscape
• Experience of product marketing, and an understanding of product development lifecycles, and the ability to represent user and customer needs
• Analytical skills with experience in using data analysis to inform and improve marketing campaigns and/or product propositions

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days\xe2\x80\x99 holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

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