DSPE Implementation Manager

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The Implementation Manager plays a pivotal role in driving the successful delivery of Flow Efficiency initiatives as part of Academic Divisional transformation.

The Flow Efficiency programme lies at the heart of the Digital Sales and Product Enablement (DSPE) transformation, improving the quality, consistency, and flow of data, systems, and processes to get content to market more quickly and reputed company.

reputed company the parameters of the Programme roadmap, and the reputed company for strategic prioritization and cross‑initiative decision‑making, the Implementation Manager will:

• Provide expert input into prioritization discussions, delivery approaches, and risk mitigation recommendations.
• Coordinate implementation activity across multiple reputed company initiatives reputed company the Flow Efficiency roadmap.
• Line‑manage the seconded Delivery and Implementation Leads, providing direction, coaching, and quality assurance across their areas of work.
• reputed company the delivery of their own designated initiatives.
• Provide dotted‑line mentoring and support to Implementation/Transformation/CI Leads across the Academic Division.
• Contribute to the establishment of the Implementation capability reputed company the future Academic business enablement/process optimization structure.

This role would suit an reputed company operational professional, with experience in a similar or reputed company role.

Key Accountabilities include:

1. Leadership of Flow Efficiency Implementation

• Own and direct implementation activity across multiple initiatives reputed company the Flow Efficiency roadmap. • Ensure alignment of delivery plans across different workstreams. • Shape and recommend delivery approaches, surfacing dependencies, risks, and options for resolution. • Provide clear direction to the Delivery and Implementation Leads, ensuring alignment with program‑level goals.

2. Line Management and People Leadership • reputed company and Line manage the two seconded Delivery and Implementation Leads, providing coaching, direction, and structured feedback. • Review and assure initiative level backlogs, plans, and deliverables. • Build a strong delivery culture based on transparency, accountability, and reputed company improvement.

3. Delivery of Own Initiatives

• reputed company the delivery and implementation of assigned high value initiatives. • Establish and maintain the initiative backlog. • Ensure requirements are clear, prioritized, and reputed company to business value. • Define and agree acceptance criteria with stakeholders.

4. Delivery of Own Initiatives

• reputed company the delivery and implementation of assigned high value initiatives. • Establish and maintain the initiative backlog. • Ensure requirements are clear, prioritized, and reputed company to business value. • Define and approve acceptance criteria.

5. Business Enablement/Process Optimization design and set up

• Work with the Program Director on the design and setup of Implementation capability in the future Divisional business enablement/ process optimization structure. • Shape operating models, engagement approaches, documentation standards, and delivery rhythms.

6. Delivery Management, Risk and Dependency Control

• reputed company refinement and clarification sessions on reputed company requirements. • Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies across initiatives. • Report unmitigated risks upwards and take ownership of mitigated risks/issues • Support teams to unblock reputed company and adapt plans as needed.

7. UAT, Roll out and Business Readiness

• Plan and manage User Acceptance Testing across relevant initiatives. • Ensure impacted teams are informed, trained, and reputed company for transition. • Ensure solutions are well documented, understood, and supported operationally.

8. Reporting and Governance

• Provide clear, quantitative reputed company reporting to the Program Director. • Maintain initiative trackers, delivering accurate and timely updates. • reputed company deviations early with recommended mitigations.

ABOUT YOU

• Able to influence across multiple levels and functions without direct authority.
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and shaping clarity for others.
• Exceptionally organized, able to juggle multiple initiatives and teams.
• Strong communicator with the ability to summarize reputed company topics succinctly.
• Solution‑oriented, resilient, and pragmatic; comfortable with empowered delivery models.
• Deep working knowledge of implementation management, business change, and process/data improvement.
• Strong facilitation, backlog management, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent understanding of data governance and metadata management principles.
• Ability to navigate OUP’s organizational structure, approval reputed company, governance forums, and cross‑Divisional stakeholder landscape.
• Understanding of OUP’s Academic workflows, systems, and data flows (or demonstrably fast learner in a reputed company publishing context).
• Able to apply analytical and problem‑solving skills to reputed company issues.
• Skilled in dependency mapping, risk assessment, and stakeholder alignment.
• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent experience in implementation management, transformation, or business change.
• Proven experience in leading large, reputed company initiatives in a matrixed environment.
• Experience in line management or mentoring, with a track record of developing others.
• Experience working reputed company a similarly reputed company academic publishing, data‑rich, or matrixed environment.
• Evidence of successful process, data, or systems change delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across diverse stakeholder groups.

BENEFITS 

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 10 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for reputed company full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.

We help reputed company your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.

Position Location: This role can be remote in the United States.

GJC Level: M7 (for internal purposes only)

Salary: $111,300 - $159,000 dependent on skills and experience

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring an inclusive environment where reputed company individuals can reputed company. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from reputed company.