VP Product Management at ProQuest Comp in New Providence, NJ

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Are you seeking an executive leadership role to drive the growth of exciting academic research products?

ProQuest is committed to empowering researchers and librarians around the world. The company’s portfolio of assets -- including content, technologies and deep expertise -- drives better research outcomes for users and greater efficiency for the libraries and organizations that serve them.

ProQuest is a key partner for content holders of all types, preserving and enabling access to their rich and varied information. Those partnerships have built a growing content collection that now encompasses 90,000 authoritative sources, 6 billion digital pages and spans six centuries. It includes the world’s largest collection of dissertations and theses; 20 million pages and three centuries of global, national, regional and specialty newspapers; more than 450,000 ebooks; rich aggregated collections of the world’s most important scholarly journals and periodicals; and unique vaults of digitized historical collections from great libraries and museums, as well as organizations as varied as the Royal Archives, the Associated Press and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

This vast content allows serious research of virtually any research topic from multiple perspectives and across multiple formats. Precision search of the content is enabled through ProQuest’s renowned ability to structure data for simple access and discovery by students, scholars and information seekers of all kinds. These ProQuest technologies uncover the right content at the right time, while others streamline research routines with automated bibliographic support and document management, and by providing online platforms for anytime, any place collaboration. For librarians, ProQuest is an essential partner in driving the transformation of their organizations, providing practical and increasingly interoperable Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for acquisition, assessment, management and marketing of their information collections.

ProQuest’s innovations are built from a spectrum of expertise that has developed organically and as companies have joined the enterprise. Affiliate Bowker is acclaimed for its century of experience in the organization of book data via classics such as Books in Print. ProQuest’s aggregation solutions are supported by renowned skills in abstracting and indexing, while its historical collections leverage unique talent in the preservation and digitization of rare archival collections. Its EBooks area – encompassing pioneering brands ebrary and EBL-EBook Library – solve challenges related to emerging electronic formats. Other notable brands include the iconic ProQuest Dialog® information service that powers innovation in corporations; the Summon® discovery service, which enables patrons search their library’s collection through a single online portal; RefWorks, which provides students and faculty with a digital space for collaboration and management of all their research; Pivot™, a resource that matches funding and collaborators with researchers; and Intota®, a new management platform that enables libraries to make the shift from print to “e.”

ProQuest is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.

ProQuest is seeking a strategic senior leader to support our largest business unit, ProQuest Information Solutions. This key leadership role is responsible for a line of business with a large product portfolio of academic research products including General Reference, Business, SciTech, Health, Social Sciences, and Video products. The Vice President leads a geographically dispersed global product management team located in ProQuest offices in Ann Arbor, MI and Cambridge, UK, as well as remote employees. In addition, this leader leverages a team of up to 50 matrix employees in shared service organizations to execute the development and launch of PQIS products.

What you’ll be doing:

The Vice President, Product Management acts as a general manager for their line of business driving operational strategy, marketing and business performance of the line of business; responsibilities will include:

Business management of the products in the Line of Business

• Managing P&L responsibility including revenue and profit margin.
• Managing direct revenues and product lifecycles for the Line of Business and contribution to PQIS portfolio solutions.
• Directing product development of primary source collections and value propositions for aggregated content.

Driving commercial success and directing product marketing strategy

• Defining target markets / segments and white space
• Defining strategies, tactics, and metrics (key performance indicators)
• Driving and manages sales results (matrix responsibility with sales teams)
• Go-to-market planning for new product launches and product bundles

Guiding Product Management teams in their activities including

• Defining product strategy and roadmap
• Market discovery and persona concept development
• Commercialization and establishing product requirements Product roadmaps and product delivery/life-cycle management

Providing executive leadership as a member of the PQIS leadership team

• Partnering with the leadership team to develop PQIS strategy and performance
• Taking responsibility for cross divisional tasks
• Promoting, collaboration and participating in developing a winning culture.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in related field, plus 10 or more years of relevant work experience; Strong preference for advanced degree and prior work experience in content/information/EdTech industry.
• Deep understanding of business drivers, context, and key issues, able use holistic understanding to set strategy for the line of business.
• Experienced manager of of complex internal and external relationships with the ability to leverage strong communication skills, listening skills and a “customer first” orientation with higher education customers.
• Strong senior leadership skills with the ability to develop and communicate vision, set direction and effectively manage the performance of a team of 7.
• Ability to effectively contribute as a leadership team member for the ProQuest Information Solutions Business Unit.
• Ability to use data and analysis to drive decisions and set strategy for the line of business.
• Strong influencing skills to drive objectives in a matrixed environment.
• Strong negotiation skills.

ProQuest Values:

• Customer First-- Our first priority every day is the success and happiness of our customers. We strive to make their jobs easier through our content and technology solutions and our advocacy and thought leadership. ​
• People— We believe people are our greatest asset. We strive to provide an environment where people can realize their full potential, deliver their best work, and thrive as we work together for our common benefit.
• Accountability— We take responsibility and ownership of our work. Whenever possible, we use data and metrics to make decisions and track success. We always seek the solution that is best for our customers and ProQuest.
• Integrity— We have trustworthy, transparent interactions with customers, partners, and each other. We always keep our word.
• Innovation— We continuously evolve to remain on the forefront and believe in creativity as a means of advancement, actively challenging the status quo. We value entrepreneurship and are not afraid to take smart risks.​
• Community— We are citi​zens of the world and understand our responsibility within it. We also embrace and celebrate our internal community: smart, diverse, fun, and curious.

Other good stuff:

• We offer competitive benefits including generous time-off, 401(k) with company match, and a selection of health, medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD options.
• We are committed to professional development with a significant focus on learning.
• At ProQuest, you will work with a team of smart, collaborative colleagues.
• Fantastic wellness program and onsite activities like chair massages and gentle yoga.
• Access to ProQuest research products including e-books, genealogy and academic journals.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)