This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced educational publisher to shape the forward strategy for our primary maths portfolio and to lead the management and delivery of products and services that will help us achieve our business goals and make a positive impact on maths teaching and learning. As the Head of Primary Maths, you will nurture and maximise opportunities from existing products as well as identifying new opportunities to meet customer needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Developing a strategy and product plan for primary maths based on deep market knowledge and a desire to make an impact. Building an expert network and acting as an internal and external champion for primary maths education. Monitoring the financial performance of the primary maths portfolio and working with colleagues and key stakeholders to ensure that sales and renewal targets are met. Ensuring that new products and services are based on sound market research and evidence of impact, and are delivered to market on time, to quality and within budget. Managing the primary maths product team. Exemplifying our values and establishing an open, inclusive, collaborative and ambitious culture. Ideal Candidate:
Our ideal candidate will be an experienced educational publisher with good knowledge of the UK schools' market, excellent communication and relationship building skills, and the desire to be a champion for Oxford's primary maths portfolio. You will be an innovative and creative thinker with a positive attitude to problem solving and a determination to deliver results. Experience in the conceptualisation, development and delivery of successful educational products and services, ideally for the primary school sector. Strong financial management skills and a track record of driving effective revenue, profit/surplus and market share growth through business and operational excellence. Proven team leadership and people management skills. Strong negotiating and influencing skills and experience of strategic partnership building. Extensive experience of print and digital publishing. Desirable:
Specific experience of UK education markets and schools publishing. Primary (or secondary) maths teaching experience. Extensive network of contacts including experts, authors, editors. 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 the added benefit of private medical insurance and management bonus.
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Developing a strategy and product plan for primary maths based on deep market knowledge and a desire to make an impact. Building an expert network and acting as an internal and external champion for primary maths education. Monitoring the financial performance of the primary maths portfolio and working with colleagues and key stakeholders to ensure that sales and renewal targets are met. Ensuring that new products and services are based on sound market research and evidence of impact, and are delivered to market on time, to quality and within budget. Managing the primary maths product team. Exemplifying our values and establishing an open, inclusive, collaborative and ambitious culture. Ideal Candidate:
Our ideal candidate will be an experienced educational publisher with good knowledge of the UK schools' market, excellent communication and relationship building skills, and the desire to be a champion for Oxford's primary maths portfolio. You will be an innovative and creative thinker with a positive attitude to problem solving and a determination to deliver results. Experience in the conceptualisation, development and delivery of successful educational products and services, ideally for the primary school sector. Strong financial management skills and a track record of driving effective revenue, profit/surplus and market share growth through business and operational excellence. Proven team leadership and people management skills. Strong negotiating and influencing skills and experience of strategic partnership building. Extensive experience of print and digital publishing. Desirable:
Specific experience of UK education markets and schools publishing. Primary (or secondary) maths teaching experience. Extensive network of contacts including experts, authors, editors. 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 the added benefit of private medical insurance and management bonus.
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