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This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for defining product strategy, driving execution, delivering sustainable growth, and ensuring exceptional customer outcomes.\nYou will own the strategic direction of your product domain, balancing customer needs, market opportunities, technical innovation, and commercial objectives. Working closely with senior stakeholders across product, technology, shared services, sales, marketing, customer success, and executive leadership teams, you will shape the future roadmap and lead investment decisions that maximise value for customers and the business.\nYou will also play a key leadership role in building and developing a high-performing product management team, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nAbout the Team\nOur A&G Solutions team develops innovative technology solutions that support research institutions, universities, funding organisations, and research leaders worldwide. We help our customers make better decisions through trusted data, analytics, workflow tools, and digital products that support the advancement of research and academic excellence.\nAs part of a global product organisation, you will collaborate with talented colleagues across product management, software engineering, data science, user experience, commercial teams, and customer-facing functions. Together, we deliver market-leading solutions that enable our customers to achieve their goals and create meaningful impact across the global research ecosystem.\nResponsibilities\nDefine and execute product strategies that drive customer value, business growth, and competitive advantage.\nDevelop and communicate a compelling vision, roadmap, and investment strategy for your product portfolio.\nBuild deep understanding of customer needs, market dynamics, industry trends, and competitive offerings.\nLead product discovery, research, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making to inform strategic priorities.\nDrive successful go-to-market planning and execution in partnership with commercial, marketing, and customer-facing teams.\nEstablish meaningful product performance metrics and KPIs, using insights to optimise outcomes and return on investment.\nLead cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle, from concept through delivery and market adoption.\nEvaluate build, buy, and partner opportunities to support strategic product objectives.\nRequirements\nSignificant experience in Product Management, including leadership responsibility within complex software or technology environments.\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nProven success managing products or product portfolios that have delivered measurable growth and commercial results.\nExperience leading and developing Product Managers and building high-performing teams.\nStrong strategic thinking and commercial acumen, with the ability to translate market opportunities into business outcomes.\nExcellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence at all levels of an organisation.\nExperience using customer insights, market research, analytics, and experimentation to inform product decisions.\nStrong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly and persuasively.\nExperience with AI products and spec-driven code-generation approach to product management is a solid plus \nWork in a way that works for you\nWe promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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.\nWorking for you\nWe 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:\nGenerous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days\nHealth screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits\nWellbeing programs\nLife assurance \nAccess to a competitive contributory pension scheme\nSave As You Earn share option scheme\nTravel Season ticket loan\nElectric Vehicle Scheme\nOptional Dental Insurance\nMaternity, paternity and shared parental leave\nEmployee Assistance Programme\nAccess to emergency care for both the elderly and children\nRECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you\nAccess to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer\nAccess to extensive learning and development resources\nAccess to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work\nAbout Us\nA 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 better world.\n\nIf performed in the following location: Home-Based - Denmark or Aalborg (Alfred Nobels), the base pay range is kr880,100 - kr1,467,100.If performed in NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg), the base pay range is €110,500 - €184,000.\n\nWe know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Clickhereto access benefits specific to your location.\nWe are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. 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