Vice President, Nature Communications Portfolio - New York, United States - Springer Nature

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Description

Date:
May 15, 2024

Location:
New York, US Berlin, DE Heidelberg, DE

Company:
Springer Nature Group

About Springer Nature Group
Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people.

For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities - enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

About the Brand

Job Title:
Vice President, Nature Communications Portfolio

Locations:
New York, Berlin or Heidelberg - Hybrid Working

Application deadline:
June 15th 2024

About the Role

The Vice President, Nature Communications Portfolio is a new position in the Nature Portfolio journals leadership team overseeing Nature Communications and the Communications series journals.

The VP Nature Communications Portfolio will proactively drive the growth of Nature Communications and the Communications journals by overseeing their editorial and publishing activities and scale the Portfolio through strategic development, new launches and targeted initiatives to drive growth.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in the market-leading journal Nature Portfolio and help drive its overall contribution to the research enterprise.

Responsibilities:

Drive the growth and success of the Nature Communications Portfolio_
Lead, motivate and inspire the journal teams to deliver on Nature Portfolio's reputation for quality and the flagship OA role of Nature Communications
Develop and deliver on a marketfocused strategic roadmap for the Portfolio that ensures it is a major growth driver for Springer Nature
Strengthen publishing and editorial activities, delivering excellent author service and ensuring editorial integrity by overseeing a global editorial team
Work closely with other Springer Nature functions (e.g. Production, Marketing, Legal) to maximise journal performance and minimize risk
Agree annual targets for journal publication volumes and ensure that these targets are met
Take responsibility for the financial performance (revenues and OCC) of the Portfolio
Optimize resource allocation to ensure that growth is supported effectively
Monitor relevant competitors and market developments to ensure that we can learn and/or respond as appropriate
Use market insights to improve customer experience and power success
Establish a customerfocused approach within the team, using insights from researcher engagement to improve journal positioning and performance
Identify new opportunities, test their viability in an agile way, and roll out to the broader portfolio as appropriate
Engage with the leaders and teams of the Naturebranded Publishing Unit to ensure coordinated development of the entire Nature Portfolio
Take responsibility for achieving goals and for reporting back on progress within the Nature Portfolio and to the Executive team and Board
Effectively lead a highperformance team that embraces change_
Create a positive and energetic team environment
Establish a culture that balances the need to ensure Nature Portfolio quality with commercial growth goals
Ensure that the strategic and tactical goals for your business are understood, owned and applied within your group and beyond
Create a strong performance culture within your team
Engage the team in testing, launching and iterating new ideas and building successful approaches into new ways of working
Support managers within the group in establishing change competence throughout the team to fuel a culture of continuous improvement
Collaborate with colleagues across the broader Nature Portfolio to test new workflows and team organisation approaches to enhance overall portfolio efficiency and productivity
Rolemodel Springer Nature values and ways of working and ensure that these are incorporated into the daytoday activities of your team

Experience, Skills, Qualifications:

Required: Advanced degree in a research area covered by the Nature Portfolio or extensive experience working in researchrelated environment
Full understanding of the Editorial/Publishing landscape, particularly of editorial processes and practices
A strong understanding of the needs and challenges of publishing highquality research journals
Senior leadership experience in managing the performance of a large, diverse team
Track record of working across geographies and with different nationalities and cultures
Experience of working within a complex global matrixed environment would be advantageous
Comprehensive experience managing a business area, including financial man