Senior Pricing Manager - Open Access
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Job description
As the Senior Pricing Manager for the Open Access division you will play a key role in shaping the future of Academic Publishing.
Your responsibilities will include managing pricing strategies for Hybrid and Fully Open Journals, transformative agreements, and Open Books. This position demands a strategic thinker with expertise in value-based pricing, future-oriented business models, and a strong bias towards automation and AI-driven approaches.
This is a dynamic and proactive role that requires energy, drive, and a commitment to fostering a culture of accelerated delivery. You will be instrumental in driving cross-functional alignment and delivering impactful results, utilising influence rather than direct authority to make a meaningful contribution to organisational growth.
You will work closely with the Global Director of Pricing to achieve a wide range of organisational objectives. This role is open to UK-based candidates and requires attendance at our Milton Park office three days per week.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Pricing Strategy Development
- Lead Strategic Pricing Engagements: Responsible for the pricing strategy for B2B and B2C Open Access products. Independently manage and execute multiple strategic pricing projects, including annual pricing updates, pricing for new propositions, defining packaging strategies, and developing innovative business models.
- Own and Deliver Implementation: Take full ownership of implementing pricing strategies, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with business objectives while driving operational excellence.
- Define and Track Key Metrics: Own the definition and automated tracking of key Open Access volume, yield, and price metrics to ensure data-driven decision-making and continuous performance improvement.
- Lead and Communicate Change: Effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, fostering collaboration and driving change through clear communication and strategic leadership.
- Team Management: Oversee the Pricing Analytics Manager via a dotted line relationship to deliver key Open Access pricing deliverables.
- Strategic Alignment: Drive alignment and execution of strategic initiatives across diverse teams and departments.
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Relationship Building: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders across all organisational levels to foster collaboration and alignment.
- Executive Communication: Deliver regular status reports, reviews, and briefings to the executive leadership team, ensuring transparency, alignment, and informed decision-making.
Workflow Automation
- Ownership of AI-Driven Pricing Models: Develop and implement advanced AI algorithms to optimise pricing strategies across Open Access products. Identify and integrate machine learning tools to predict market trends and customer behaviours.
- Automation Leadership: Design and deploy automated systems for pricing updates, performance tracking, and competitive benchmarking. Drive efficiency by reducing manual processes and enabling real-time decision-making., If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact Liz Southwick. Your request will be reviewed and considered in the strictest confidence.
Requirements
- Pricing Expertise: Proven ability to develop and implement impactful pricing strategies that drive revenue growth and profitability.
- Strategic Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate across diverse teams and departments, driving alignment and execution of strategic initiatives without direct authority.
- Analytical Mastery: Advanced analytical skills such as SQL, Python, and R, along with data visualisation tools like Tableau and Power BI, to extract and analyse data and execute pricing strategies, ensuring seamless implementation and impactful results.
- AI and Automation First: Proven bias towards advanced AI technologies and automation tools to streamline processes, optimise pricing strategies, and drive efficient, data-driven decision-making.
- Exceptional Communication: Ability to manage stakeholders at all levels with the ability to articulate complex pricing concepts clearly and concisely.
- Global Mindset: Ability to navigate international markets, cross-cultural dynamics, and global pricing challenges.
Experience
- Experience of leading the development and implementation of new pricing strategies in the data information services industry
- Demonstrable strategic pricing background either via a niche strategy consultancy or inhouse Strategic Pricing Team
- Proven experience in the definition and automation of pricing performance metrics and competitive benchmarking
- Demonstrated success in executing global initiatives across multiple countries and regions
- Experience within the Open Access pricing function of an Academic Publisher is highly desirable but not essential
Additional Information
- Please note you must have the right to live and work in the UK for this role *
Location: We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you're not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces - like at conference - you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.
The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our office at Milton Park to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.
Benefits & conditions
- An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
- 25 days annual leave per year plus a day off for your birthday
- 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year
- 4 paid volunteering days each year
- Company funded single cover private medical insurance
- Employee assistance programme - offering 24/7 well-being support
- Share Match - Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance, plus optical and medical care
Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis
If you're excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don't fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.
Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.
