Head of Strategy, RELX
Offers Save As You Earn share option scheme
Office located in Richmond, London
Information-based analytics and decision tools
Open for applications
Information-based analytics and decision tools
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Offers Save As You Earn share option scheme
Office located in Richmond, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To benefit society by developing products that help researchers, doctors and nurses, lawyers, businesses, governments and consumers make better decisions and get better results.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrate strategic thought-leadership and intellectual rigour, seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
- Ability to tackle complex problems across a wide variety of topics, including those which might be completely new
- Demonstrate comfort with data and an ability through analysis to identify potential areas of significant business value for a company
- Demonstrate excellent organizational / project management skills working with multiple groups across geographies and cultures
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills (text and presentations), with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Willingness to take risks and bold moves, experiment when tackling new problems, remain curious and open to different perspectives, and learn from both successes and failures
- Experience leading team members and creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best, and can challenge one another positively to reach the best outcome
- Ability to support constructive relationships with senior leaders and peers in a complex matrix organization
- Proven experience in strategy, ideally with both experience in top-tier consulting firm and working within industry
What the job involves
- Reporting to the RX Chief Strategy Officer, the Head of Strategy (global) has responsibility for supporting global strategy formulation and driving execution, and for identifying and delivering attractive growth opportunities (organic and inorganic)
- This role drives strategic projects, conducts strategic research analysis, acts as a catalyst for innovation and change, encourages long-term customer-first growth across all teams, and advises on strategic, operational, tactical, and business development objectives
- This role has direct people management responsibilities (approx. 2 FTEs)
- Drive the strategic planning process both with RX Global and RELX, supported by the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), and working closely with key stakeholders
- Develop insight into changing customer needs, and competitor developments, to enable strategic recommendation to the ELT (Executive Leadership Team) for RX to maximize growth opportunities
- Define key strategic issues and challenges to be addressed and develop recommended strategic solutions and plans to maximize RX Global performance
- Maintain a data-driven understanding of the RX global event portfolio and make recommendations to shape the portfolio for sustainable high performance
- Maintain an understanding of the events industry and landscape, complementary industries and RX businesses and offering
- Manage multiple research / analysis requests and projects concurrently, ensuring RX Global remains abreast of current operating and industry landscapes, and are poised to respond as quickly as needed
- Deliver strategic projects (including strategic opportunity assessment and implementation efforts) across the RX Global business, and across a wide variety of topics, disciplines and functions, to achieve strong return on investment
- Support in the creation and execution of initiatives to create strategies to move into adjacent segments/markets
- Support Business Development initiatives with clear data driven insights and recommendations
- Develop robust working relationships with stakeholders from across the global organisation, to ensure connectivity to current RX operations and business performance
- Enable a culture of innovation, long-term thinking and customer focus, agitating for change and being a positive catalyst for growth
- Develop content for in-house strategy meetings, such as Senior Management Meetings
Salary benchmarks
Our take
RELX is a FTSE 100 company, providing analytics and decision tools for professionals and business customers around the globe. With origins as early as 1880, RELX nowadays comprises of Elsevier, its scientific, technical & medical business; LexisNexis, which deals in legal and risk; and Reed Exhibitions, also known as RX.
Throughout its history, RELX generated the bulk of its revenue from advertising and was once recognised as the world's largest B2B publisher. However, in 2014, the company strategically pivoted towards data and analytics, divesting its print media businesses to invest in data-driven and analytical capabilities. This shift marked a significant transformation in RELX's business model, aligning it with the growing demand for data and technology-driven solutions.
Since embracing its new direction, RELX has consistently performed well on the stock exchange, demonstrating robust growth across all divisions. The comp[ayn;'s focus on data and analytics has not only enhanced its market position but also ensured continued success and innovation in serving its diverse customer base.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Erik Engstrom
(CEO, not founder)Previously the CEO at Elsevier.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at RELX
- RELX now has over 100 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), focused on a range of priorities, including gender, race and ethnicity, age, LGBTQ+ and disability. ERGs allow colleagues to collaborate, advocate and engage communities, furthering the RELX Inclusion and Diversity Policy. In recognition of the important roles ERGs play in advancing a culture of inclusion, all employees have two days paid time-off per year to use for ERG-sponsored activities.
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