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Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.\nAbout the Role:\nWiley Research is in the midst of a consequential transformation - recasting itself from a legacy publishing operation into a data-intelligent, market-responsive research enterprise. That transformation depends on an analytics capability that currently exists in pieces: We require a rigorous, connected capability that synthesizes data from across the business, surfaces competitive and operational insights, and gives Research leadership the clarity to act with speed and conviction.\nThe Senior Director, Business Analytics is accountable for building and leading that capability. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of strategy, data, and performance. This person will define the Research analytics agenda - drawing on existing staff expertise, internal data systems, and external intelligence sources - and translate that agenda into the insights that inform strategy, drive investment decisions, sharpen our competitive positioning, and improve performance outcomes.\nThis role has a particular focus on commercial analytics - the measurement and interpretation of revenue performance, renewal health, customer retention, and market penetration that tells Research leadership where the business is winning, where it is losing, and where to invest next. The Senior Director is expected to function as a trusted commercial analytics advisor to the Research EVP and leadership team, translating commercial data into clear strategic recommendations and ensuring that commercial performance is measured consistently and confidently across all geographies, segments, and product lines.\nThe Senior Director works in close partnership with the Senior Director, Business Analytics & Operations, who leads the consolidation and operationalization of data from Wiley's internal and external reporting systems. While the Senior Director, Business Analytics & Operations focuses on data infrastructure and reporting integrity, this role focuses upstream - defining the analytical and commercial agenda, asking the right strategic questions, and ensuring that insights flow into decisions at the right moment. This division of labor is intentional and complementary.\nWiley Research operates in a highly matrixed environment where data ownership is distributed across multiple functions, teams, and systems. A central challenge of this role is bringing coherence to that landscape: establishing governance, building trust with data-generating teams, and creating a consolidated, commercially reliable view of Research performance that does not currently exist. The right candidate brings both analytical rigor and organizational acuity - the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments, build influence across functions, and make the case for disciplined data practices in a culture that has historically operated without them.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Analytics Strategy & Commercial Leadership\nDefine and own the analytics strategy for the Wiley Research business - setting priorities, building the capability roadmap, and ensuring the analytics agenda aligns with and anticipates the strategic priorities of the EVP and GM, Research.\nDeliver advanced commercial analysis to provide the foundation for strategic decision-making. Identify growth opportunities, retention risks, and areas of underperformance before they surface in results.\nEstablish the Research analytics function as a credible, trusted center of insight - recruiting, developing, or activating existing staff talent to build analytical capacity across the organization.\nLead the development of a competitive intelligence and market analysis function for the Research business, synthesizing external data (including third-party sources), industry trends, and internal commercial performance data into actionable strategic insight.\nTranslate complex analytical findings into clear, concise narratives for senior audiences - the EVP, Research Leadership Team, and board-level stakeholders - ensuring insights drive decisions rather than accumulate in reports.\n2. Analytics & Performance Measurement\nEvolve the KPI framework - defining and standardizing metrics that will serve as the definitive measurement standard for the Research business.\nDevelop and maintain executive dashboards and performance reporting across regions, teams, products, and customer segments - giving Research leadership a real-time, integrated view of commercial health that supports fast, evidence-based decisions.\nDeliver advanced analysis to identify growth opportunities, diagnose performance drivers, and provide the quantitative foundation for commercial strategy - including scenario modelling and competitive benchmarking.\nDrive adoption of data-driven commercial decision making throughout Research - translating complex data into clear, actionable business recommendations that influence how leaders invest, prioritize, and respond to market conditions.\nEnsure reporting is globally aligned, with consistent definitions, metrics, and performance measurement standards applied across all markets, organizational units, and product lines - from working teams to C-suite.\n3. Data Governance & Reporting Integrity\nCollaborate with stakeholder teams to drive commercial data governance - including data quality standards, reporting integrity, and management of Research's commercial single source of truth - ensuring that leadership can trust the numbers and that analytical output is reliable, consistent, and audit-ready.\nTake ownership of the broader Research analytics data governance agenda: identifying fragmented or duplicated data sources, establishing data ownership standards, and working across Research and enterprise functions to close gaps that currently undermine analytical confidence.\nPartner with the Senior Director, Business Analytics & Operations; the Business Analytics & Enablement team, and Technology & Operations to ensure the data infrastructure required for Research analytics is fit for purpose - influencing roadmap decisions and advocating for data engineering resources where gaps exist.\nDrive efficiency and automation in core reporting workflows, building toward a self-service reporting model that scales across the Research organization.\n4. Stakeholder Partnership & Trusted Advisory\nPartner with Finance to align revenue reporting, forecasting methodologies, and business performance measurement - ensuring that the analytical and financial views of commercial performance are consistent, mutually reinforcing, and trusted by leadership.\nCollaborate with Publishing, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Strategy teams to surface cross-functional commercial insights that neither function could generate alone - building the analytical connective tissue that supports integrated, enterprise-wide commercial decision-making.\nServe as a trusted advisor to Research and Executive Leadership on commercial performance trends, strategic opportunities, and operational risks - providing the analytical perspective leadership needs to make consequential decisions with confidence.\nBuild productive, trusted partnerships with data-generating teams across Research (Publishing Development, Partner Publishing, Publishing Operations, AI & Data Analytics, Finance, and others) to access, validate, and leverage data that is currently siloed or inconsistently owned.\nOperate as a visible, constructive presence in Research leadership forums - representing the analytics perspective and ensuring analytical rigor is embedded in strategic discussions.\nMentor and develop analytical talent embedded across the Research organization, elevating overall data fluency and building a community of practice around evidence-based, commercially informed decision-making.\nWhat You'll Bring\nRequired\n12+ years of progressive experience in commercial analytics, business analytics, strategy, or business intelligence, with a demonstrated track record of building decision-support functions and influencing senior commercial leadership.\nDemonstrated experience leading or building a commercial analytics function - establishing KPI frameworks, developing executive dashboards, and providing data-driven strategic insight to senior leadership.\nDemonstrated ability to build or significantly elevate an analytics function - defining strategy, establishing governance, and delivering capability uplift in a complex organizational environment.\nDeep expertise in commercial performance measurement, KPI design, and competitive intelligence; track record of translating analytical output into executive decision-making.\nExperience partnering with Finance to align revenue reporting and forecasting methodologies; comfortable with financial modelling, revenue analysis, and business scenario planning.\nExperience navigating distributed data ownership across functions and driving data governance improvements without formal authority over all contributing teams.\nExceptional communication and executive presence; ability to produce board-quality commercial insights and adapt analytical narratives to different senior audiences.\nDemonstrated ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across functions without direct authority.\nProficiency with analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Salesforce, Gainsight, BigQuery, Power BI, or equivalent).\nHigh tolerance for ambiguity and a bias toward action - comfortable building from scratch in a team still defining its operating model.\nTrack record working across multiple geographies and time zones in a global enterprise.\nPreferred\nExperience in the scholarly or academic publishing industry, or a comparable information services, media, or technology organization undergoing digital transformation.\nFamiliarity with the open access landscape, society publishing models, or research information ecosystems.\nExperience with AI-augmented analytics tools and a track record of improving analytical workflows through technology.\nExperience building an analytics function in an organization without prior data infrastructure - and translating that foundation into a broader commercial operating model.\nWe power infinite possibilities.\nFor more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing-creating impact that reaches everywhere.\nWe're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.\nHere, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything. \nWiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact  for assistance.\nWe are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. 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