Product Manager – Learning Resources – 55,000 – 66,000 – Perm – Hybrid (Deadline 14th February 2025)
Join us and be part of a mission-driven, independent publisher. You’ll work with a diverse group of people who share a passion for empowering researchers, educators, and institutions to shape the future.
About Sage:
Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965. Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.
Our guaranteed independence means we’re free to:
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Do more – supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioural science make an impact
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Work together – building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning
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Think long-term – experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas
About our Team:
Product Innovation is an established team of product people within Sage working on exciting and innovative product lines. The team currently includes Product Managers, UX Designers, and Researchers. We are passionate about providing as much value to our users and customers as possible, in ways that work for the business.
We’re a very welcoming and fun team, with a culture of inclusion and a focus on continuous improvement and learning. We take a user centred approach to product design, basing our decisions in evidence and expertise, and bringing best practice from the world of product management to everything we do.
Our team delivers new products to our platforms and maintains them across the product lifecycle.
We work closely and collaboratively with many other departments and functions within the business, notably Editorial, Marketing, Sales, Global Operations, Software Engineering and more, drawing on everyone’s expertise to create and improve excellent products.
Could you be our new Product Manager? We are seeking a Product Manager who is…
- An excellent communicator and confident working with multiple stakeholders across the business, including senior management to drive decision making & delivery
- Experienced in launching new digital products from concept, development, design and release
- Data-driven, market & user focused with the ability to get things done at pace, quickly delivering value to customers and to Sage
- Collaborative and adept at problem-solving and offering a solutions-focused approach
- Comfortable reaching out and gaining an empathy with our market, building a strong knowledge of the key users and customers, acting as an advocate for their needs and views
Your new role:
- Deliver Sage Learning Pillar launches of new products, collections and top-ups on time and to a high standard using Agile methodologies.
- Work with the strategic product leads to effectively translate business requirements into development user stories and tickets for the backlog of priorities
- Conduct systematic user acceptance testing for all product launches for quality assurance
- Ensure decision making and prioritization of backlog items aligns with business needs and targets for achieving product launch efficiencies
- Conduct measurement and reporting of launch process efficiencies against the agreed targets
- Conduct effective and timely prioritization of customer issues for the backlog
- Conduct post-launch product analysis in alignment with the agreed success metrics
- Ensure products are developed in alignment with our accessibility standards
- Ensure effective and inclusive stakeholder management alongside agreed milestones throughout the launch development timelines
- Conduct product market fit analysis in collaboration with our market analyst teams
- Champion a culture of continuous improvement by finding opportunities to enhance processes, methodologies and team collaboration while guiding the team through the related improvements.
- Collaborate with launches Project Manager and launches strategy lead, as well as the Editorial, Marketing and Production personnel for the product, and the SCRUM development team.
Do you have?
- Proven experience in Product Management, User Research, Agile methodologies (knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, etc.) or business analysis.
- Working knowledge of project management frameworks and tools (esp. JIRA and Confluence).
- Strong business analysis skills with the ability to gather, analyse and document requirements
- Experience working on developing Search, Navigation and Discovery on platforms
- Excellent communication, leadership and interpersonal skills and can collaborate effectively across different teams and levels of the organization.
- Strong management competences including ability to flex management style, influence, manage change and seek and deliver feedback.
- Experience in managing conflict and making decisions quickly under pressure
Overview of benefits:
- 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays full-time/pro-rated for part-time roles
- 2 additional ’floating days’ of personal leave, in recognition that each of us has cultural, religious, or family commitments that fall at times when the company is not closed.
- Access to Sage books and journals
- Tuition scheme and support for pursuing professional qualifications
- Hybrid working arrangements - In office 20% of contracted hours. We work flexibly and most staff can choose to work from home for up to 80% of their contracted hours.
Other benefits, which may change include:
- Variety of snacks and beverages available in the office
- Healthy lifestyle reimbursement
- Access to the Company doctor
- Access to Company loans (season ticket loan, rental deposit loan, cycle loan)
If you have a disability and you need any support during the application process, please contact humanresources@sagepub.co.uk. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.
A cover letter is important to us, this offers the hiring manager valuable insights into how your skill set aligns with the role, what unique contributions you can bring to the team and why you are interested in this position. Therefore, when applying for this role online, please upload your cover letter and CV as one document.
Applications without a cover letter may regrettably not be reviewed.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Sage we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that is representative of all sections of society and to sustaining a culture that celebrates difference, encourages authenticity, and creates a deep sense of belonging. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief as creating value through diversity is what makes us strong. As a business and as an organization with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
