Senior Manager, Strategy
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About the role
We are looking for a strategy leader to join the RELX Corporate Strategy team who can structure ambiguous problems, develop data-driven insights, and translate them into clear recommendations for senior leaders across RELX's businesses. This role has an excellent track record of migrating people into commercial and leadership roles within our businesses and provides significant exposure to and opportunities to influence senior executives and the strategic direction across multiple business segments. The role reports into RELX Chief Strategy Officer and will have occasional international travel to our various global offices for project meetings and workshops. The RELX Corporate Strategy team functions as an internal consulting team working closely with our businesses - LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Elsevier, LexisNexis Legal, and RX to enable and guide the development of robust long-term value creation plans. You will work directly with senior stakeholders in the business to lead strategic initiatives focused on but not limited to product innovation, adjacent market expansion, monetization strategy, and AI-enabled ways of working.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify strategic priorities, business needs, and pain points across RELX's businesses
- Lead end-to-end strategy projects from problem definition and structuring to delivering executive-level recommendation and driving stakeholder alignment
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, shaping strategic choices, evaluating trade-offs, and challenging assumptions
- Support the businesses with blue-sky thinking on the impact of emerging technologies and trends for our businesses
- Manage clear communication of RELX and business unit strategies through creation of Board, investor, and annual strategic planning presentations
- Lead and mentor junior team members, ensuring high quality output and team development
- Facilitate knowledge sharing across internal and external stakeholders
Requirements
- 5+ years in top tier strategy / management / financial consulting, corporate strategy, business development or similar roles
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent required, MBA or equivalent is preferred
- Exceptional analytical skills
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills - written and verbal
- Solid experience in delivering varied projects to senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated project and time management skills, ability to work across several projects concurrently
- Thinking strategically and tactically - seeing the "big picture" and operational details
- Experience managing and developing junior team members
- Personal attributes
- Problem solver who has the ability to think creatively
- Internally-motivated, positive and enthusiastic self-starter who will pro-actively drive projects forward
- Strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence - collaborative, collegial working style
- Attention to detail
- Ability to communicate and lead projects in multi-cultural, multi-national environments
- 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:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
- About the Business:
- RELX is a global provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools serving customers in the science, health, legal, risk, and exhibitions industries. We promote innovation, integrity, and collaboration-empowering our teams to make meaningful impact across our businesses.
- U.S. National Base Pay Range: $136,100 - $252,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.
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