Senior Product Director, Chemistry
Reports To: VP Portfolio Product Management, Elsevier Life Sciences Solutions
About Our Team
Elsevier is a global information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We serve the research, academic and clinical communities through the application of technology and analytics to content. Our portfolio of solutions brings together extensive Scientific, Technical and Medical content, powerful analytics, and technologies. We help our corporate customers, R&D professionals, engineers, scientists and commercial marketing leaders, to innovate and commercialize ideas, products and processes.
Elsevier’s Life Sciences business focuses on the needs in segments including Pharma, biotech, medical devices and adjacent industries. Our solutions include chemistry, biology and safety tools, as well as datasets and software solutions.
Position Overview:
The Senior Product Director, Chemistry, will be leading the Reaxys product team. S/he will be responsible for the creation and delivery of the product’s strategic vision, growth strategy, product roadmaps and innovation, as well as driving user satisfaction, product maintenance, and quality control. The senior product director will also be responsible for the product’s commercial strategy, including pricing, packaging and evolving the business model.
The successful candidate will have significant experience in Product Management, particularly in in innovating decision support solutions in Pharmaceutical R&D and Industrial Chemistry. While this position is focused on Chemistry, a broad knowledge of the Pharma R&D and Commercial Chemistry processes and use cases, from synthetic and medicinal chemistry to material science and chemical engineering, is desired.
We are looking for a leader who is up to speed on new technologies, such as generative AI and RAG, and who would be able to rapidly evolve our solutions to incorporate those. This role is pivotal in translating market trends and customer needs into differentiated products, with a strong focus on monetization strategies, pricing, packaging, and go-to-market execution.
Responsibilities
Vision and Strategy:
1. Build compelling vision for our chemistry solution set, leveraging latest AI technologies to offer optimal support to customers across segments.
2. Develop and communicate the strategic direction and positioning for the Chemistry portfolio, matching our portfolio capability to the most attractive areas of market opportunity and ensuring our offering is strongly differentiated versus the competition.
3. Identify monetizable extensions of existing use cases for incremental growth.
Product Roadmap Ownership:
4. Develop compelling product level roadmaps that align with the broader strategic direction and will drive growth for the portfolio.
5. Work closely with relevant teams (e.g. Technology, Operations) to deliver on the roadmap.
6. Drive prioritisation across the portfolio.
7. Oversee all aspects of ongoing maintenance of the platform, including quality control and the continuing addition of strategic content assets and functions.
Customer Discovery and Innovation:
8. Engage directly with customers across the segments to understand their needs, pain points and future requirements.
9. Drive innovation by identifying opportunities for new offerings or enhancements to existing offerings.
10. Utilize your deep understanding of emerging technologies and paradigm shifts in the industry (and among our competitors) and how they affect the opportunity landscape
11. Participate in evaluation of: buy, build or partner options to expand the use case we support.
12. Build and monetise new chemistry AI tools.
Commercial Strategy
13. Lead the development of packaging and pricing strategy for Chemistry Portfolio
14. Develop and drive go-to-market strategy in collaboration with marketing & sales teams
Requirements
15. Advanced Degree in Chemistry or related discipline (Medicinal Chemistry, Biochemistry), MBA Desired
16. 10+ years of experience in tech product management, ideally in digital solutions
17. Strong analytical skills and ability to translate insights into actionable strategies
18. Excellent communications and stakeholder management skills, capable of engaging with technical teams, executives, and customers.
19. Commercial acumen, ability to devise monetization strategies
20. Proven experience in a senior leadership role
21. Collaborative mindset, comfortable working across matrix organization
22. A proactive, strategic thinker with a passion for innovation
23. Deep understanding of the life sciences sector.
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:
24. Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
25. Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
26. Wellbeing programs
27. Life assurance
28. Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
29. Save As You Earn share option scheme
30. Travel Season ticket loan
31. Electric Vehicle Scheme
32. Optional Dental Insurance
33. Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
34. Employee Assistance Programme
35. Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
36. RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
37. Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
38. Access to extensive learning and development resources
39. Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
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