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🕒 March 31

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OUP Academic

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1478

📚 Education

📱 Media

Education • Media

OUP Academic is the academic publishing division of Oxford University Press that produces and distributes scholarly books, peer-reviewed journals, reference works, and digital research and teaching resources for researchers, educators, students, and institutions worldwide. It focuses on supporting scholarship and education through editorial curation, digital platforms, and institutional subscriptions.

📋 Description

• Play a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of Flow Efficiency initiatives as part of Academic Divisional transformation. • Provide expert input into prioritization discussions, delivery approaches, and risk mitigation recommendations. • Coordinate implementation activity across multiple concurrent initiatives within the Flow Efficiency roadmap. • Line-manage the seconded Delivery and Implementation Leads, providing direction, coaching, and quality assurance across their areas of work. • Lead the delivery of designated initiatives. • Provide dotted-line mentoring and support to Implementation/Transformation/CI Leads across the Academic Division. • Contribute to the establishment of the Implementation capability within the future Academic business enablement/process optimization structure. • Ensure alignment of delivery plans across different workstreams. • Shape and recommend delivery approaches, surfacing dependencies, risks, and options for resolution. • Review and assure initiative level backlogs, plans, and deliverables. • Build a strong delivery culture based on transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Lead refinement and clarification sessions on complex requirements. • Plan and manage User Acceptance Testing across relevant initiatives. • Ensure impacted teams are informed, trained, and prepared for transition.

🎯 Requirements

• Able to influence across multiple levels and functions without direct authority. • Comfortable leading through ambiguity and shaping clarity for others. • Exceptionally organized, able to juggle multiple initiatives and teams. • Strong communicator with the ability to summarize complex topics succinctly. • Solution-oriented, resilient, and pragmatic; comfortable with empowered delivery models. • Deep working knowledge of implementation management, business change, and process/data improvement. • Strong facilitation, backlog management, and prioritization skills. • Excellent understanding of data governance and metadata management principles. • Ability to navigate OUP’s organizational structure, approval pathways, governance forums, and cross-Divisional stakeholder landscape. • Understanding of OUP’s Academic workflows, systems, and data flows (or demonstrably fast learner in a complex publishing context). • Able to apply analytical and problem-solving skills to complex issues. • Skilled in dependency mapping, risk assessment, and stakeholder alignment. • Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience in implementation management, transformation, or business change. • Proven experience in leading large, complex initiatives in a matrixed environment. • Experience in line management or mentoring, with a track record of developing others. • Experience working within a similarly complex academic publishing, data-rich, or matrixed environment. • Evidence of successful process, data, or systems change delivery.

🏖️ Benefits

• 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service • 10 sick days • Floating holidays • Personal days • Company holidays • 35-hour working week • Flexibility in respect of working hours • Use of technology to support regular remote working • Health, dental, and vision insurance plans • High level of contribution made by OUP towards health insurance • Employee Assistant Programs • Life insurance • Disability insurance • Non-elective contribution to retirement plan of 7% of salary • Matching contribution to retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions