Description:

Location : London 

Salary : Excellent Six Figure Package 

Morgan Healey are retained consultants for this assignment. 

Our client, a globally recognised information business, that provides critical information products and services to the corporate, academic and government sectors is looking to appoint a highly experience Director of Product, Platform & Content Strategy. 

In this newly created role the Director of Product, Platform & Content Strategy will have responsibility for the strategic planning, content development, overall product development and management for the company’s product portfolio and customer proposition development. The current portfolio of products includes a number of digital products, major reference works (technical handbooks) and web portals. 

This position will establish the strategic segments for standards-intensive industries and the company’s information services and solutions response. To achieve this will require a comprehensive understanding of the information publishing technology trends, the information market dynamics and customer behaviour, development of solid business relationships, development of new and existing products for core and emerging markets, plus a strong ability to foster a culture of product innovation. 

Key Competences: 

Required experience and education 
• BA or BSc (or equivalent) 
• Exposure to standards, regulatory or compliance markets 
• Substantial experience at Director/Senior Management level 
• Substantial experience in publishing and product development 
• Proven experience of leading technological platform development 
• Demonstrated success defining and launching digital products 
• Demonstrated success generating and executing project plans 
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority 

Interpersonal skills 
• Building partnerships 
• Negotiation 
• Building trust and gaining commitment 
• Building strategic working relationships 
• Building customer loyalty 
• Sales ability / persuasiveness 
• Effective communications 

General knowledge and technical skills 
• Business Acumen 
• Strategic Planning 
• Results orientated 
• Project Management skills 
• Capacity to understand the needs of technical and technologically driven markets, synthesize information and pitch product proposals 
• Creative and Innovative in approach to problem solving 
• Information analysis and monitoring 
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills 

To apply click here: http://www.morganhealey.com/job_details.asp?job_urn=216 

Or send an up to date CV to: 

James@morganhealey.com 

+44 (0)1332 898248 
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