Vice President, Strategy NHE

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We help researchers make new discoveries, collaborate with their colleagues, and give them the knowledge they need to find funding. We help governments and universities evaluate and improve their research strategies. We help doctors save lives, providing insight for physicians to find the right clinical answers, and we support nurses and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers.Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancetand Cell, more than 35,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray?s Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professionals and business customers across industries. Elsevier employs over 7,000 people in more than 70 offices worldwide. We are an employer of choice, attracting and developing talented and creative people who thrive in a challenging and fast-paced environment. We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package as well as a real opportunity for career growth in a growing organization.

The Vice President, Strategy, Health Education will report to the EVP Strategy Elsevier. The role holder will work closely with the MD of the Health Education business. S/he will have very broad exposure to the business, and be a key member of the Senior Management team.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

Strategic planning

• Supporting the strategic planning process and board presentations, working closely with key stakeholders from the Education business units and Elsevier strategy
• Driving the understanding of changing user and customer needs, and competitor developments
• Leading / supporting strategic projects (including strategic opportunity assessment and implementation efforts) across the entire business, working directly with product and commercial teams
• Helping to define key strategic issues to be addressed
• Lead initiatives to create strategies to move into adjacent segments/markets and evolve the portfolio into digital, subscription-based products

Business development

• Building and managing a proactive M&A environment
• Developing an acquisition pipeline, including market scans and target identification and prioritization
• Evaluating targets from a strategic, operational and financial perspective
• Supporting the diligence process
• Preparing acquisition briefings

Strategic pricing

• Providing leadership and guidance to the pricing team

The ideal candidate will have experience as a strategy consultant with a top-tier consulting firm, combined with an MBA degree and strong business experience in a relevant industry: digital information solutions, digital health and/or higher education.

Competencies and skills

• Strategically, analytically and intellectually assertive
• Demonstrated ability to think structurally about a business, able to deploy sophisticated tools and analysis to identify potential areas of significant business value for a company
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong sense of personal ownership and ability to “get things done”; a proactive, self-starter
• Dynamic, high level of energy
• Strong leadership skills and team orientation
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to create constructive relationships with senior management and peers in a matrix organization; highly collaborative
• Confident and persuasive communicator, able to be an assertive influencer

Education and experience

• Excellent university degree and an MBA
• 4+ years post-MBA experience in strategy, gained with a major strategy consulting firm and/or working in strategy in a major global company
• Ideally, at least 4 years of experience in health, education, digital information, and/or data/analytics driven segment
• End-to-end experience with M&A, from pipeline development to due diligence
• Experience in a matrix environment with demonstrated success at defining an agenda despite inherent conflicting opinions, demands, and priorities
• Financial acumen, comfortable working with financial models and reports

The role can be based in St. Louis or Philadelphia, with moderate travel required

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