Product Manager, Content Accessibility
Location: Elsevier, UK
12 months contract
About our team:
Elsevier Operations partners with our business units to deliver the end-to-end customer journeys across all of our market segments, aiming to deliver market leading content and data. The Content Systems and Services team within Operations plays a key role in this, in collaboration with our technology and operational team colleagues. We continually optimize and innovate our processes to ensure that our content is delivered quickly with high quality to our customers.
About the role:
The Product Manager, Content Accessibility, is responsible for ensuring that our content meets the needs of users with disabilities. This role involves orchestrating activities to align with Elsevier’s business and technology strategy, focusing on books and related processes and systems.

Responsibilities:

• Implement accessibility enhancements to content products, initially focusing on books.
• Project manage relevant implementations and act as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Coordinate user testing, write test cases, and secure resources.
• Contribute to high-level roadmap and development planning.
• Identify and prioritize changes in content pipelines.
• Collaborate with vendors to define necessary outcomes and control costs.
• Define clear and unambiguous requirements for new accessibility features.
• Engage regularly with stakeholders and build strong relationships.

Requirements:

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Project and product management skills.
• Experience in academic publishing, preferably within a book’s workflow environment.
• Awareness of accessibility issues faced by people with disabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, projects, and priorities.
• Proven track record of improving customer satisfaction and commercial impact.
• Thorough product development knowledge, including business case development and content planning.

Work in a way that works for you:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you:

• We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About the business:
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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• Implement accessibility enhancements to content products, initially focusing on books.
• Project manage relevant implementations and act as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Coordinate user testing, write test cases, and secure resources.
• Contribute to high-level roadmap and development planning.
• Identify and prioritize changes in content pipelines.
• Collaborate with vendors to define necessary outcomes and control costs.
• Define clear and unambiguous requirements for new accessibility features.
• Engage regularly with stakeholders and build strong relationships