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About the Role
The Assistant Portfolio Manager, under the oversight of the Senior Portfolio Manager, is responsible for a portfolio of educational products for the Higher Education law market, which are designed to maximise student outcomes. They are responsible for ensuring existing content meets evolving market needs, finding new writers, and acquiring new content under the strategic guidance of the Senior Portfolio Manager. Their focus will be on driving usage of our products in digital forms by acquiring content that supports optimal outcomes when used digitally. They contribute to the financial management of the portfolio, ensuring that budgets are met and costs incurred are in line with our agreed commercial strategy.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:
Engaging with the Higher Education market to identify factors that should influence our content development strategy.
Under the guidance of the Senior Portfolio Manager, developing plans to update existing content in a way that will drive digital usage, and market share and revenue growth.
Working closely with authors to agree content and scheduling plans, including, under the guidance of the Senior Portfolio Manager, negotiating contracts.
Working closely and collaboratively with cross-functional colleagues to maximise the quality and competitiveness of our output, including matrix management of editorial colleagues working on content in the portfolio, and supporting Sales colleagues to understand and communicate the benefits of our products.
Please refer to the enclosed job description for the detailed key accountabilities in this role.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
Previous publishing experience, ideally in the context of Higher Education.
Proven track record of strong project management, cost/budget management, successful innovation, and consistent delivery of goals.
Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.
Ability to work well on your own initiative and to be proactive in solving problems.
Ability to demonstrate excellent attention to detail.
Strong written communication, interpersonal, and verbal skills.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ 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.
This role comes with a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact tobi.ogunnaike@oup.com 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.
