[Hiring] Product Operations & Enablement Manager @Elsevier

Role Description

The Product Operations & Enablement Manager will help drive operational excellence across the Global Product organization while partnering closely with Innovation. In this role, you will design scalable processes, improve visibility across product and innovation portfolios, and enable teams with frameworks, tools, and communications that support effective planning, execution, and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize the product management tool stack, including roadmap practices, standards, and adoption across teams.
• Standardize product development processes where an enterprise approach adds value while preserving flexibility across product contexts.
• Define and report operational and enterprise metrics that show product team effectiveness and efficiency.
• Partner with Innovation to implement frameworks, templates, and tools that support portfolio visibility, planning, governance, and execution.
• Track innovation initiative progress, surface risks and dependencies, and connect outcomes to leadership priorities.
• Create executive-ready communications that translate product and innovation work into clear business updates.
• Manage operating cadences such as portfolio reviews, status reporting, risk management, decision logs, and escalation routes.
• Connect product strategy to execution across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Global Product Operations, and Innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product operations, product management, business operations, or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable processes that improve team efficiency.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to organize and interpret quantitative and qualitative product data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including stakeholder-ready narratives.
• Experience managing product tools such as Aha!, Jira, Pendo, Productboard, or similar.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Comfort with ambiguity and matrixed organizations; able to structure early-stage or fast-moving work.
• Experience with AI-assisted workflows, rapid experimentation, or design thinking.

Benefits

• Promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization.
• Numerous well-being initiatives.
• Shared parental leave.
• Study assistance.
• Sabbaticals to help meet immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Working Pattern

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.