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Do you want to ensure your colleagues are empowered, supported and able to leverage their unique talents?


Are you passionate about empowering managers to lead teams effectively and support employees' best performance?


About our Team


The Organizational Effectiveness and Strategy Enablement Center of Expertise (OESE CoE) works to achieve an optimally connected and more effective STM Journals (STMJ) organization. We bring together learning and development, organizational development, communications, and inclusion and diversity. We prepare our people to excel in their role, build their career and realize their full potential, with each person bringing their best self to work and feeling valued.


About the Role


As People Empowerment Head, you will ensure that colleagues joining STMJ will be optimally prepared to excel by designing and coordinating an interactive onboarding program. You will enable proactive career development by establishing STMJ career tracks and creating frameworks for flexible movement across teams. You will build a people leader community for learning together and sharing best practices and enable effective recognition. To do this you will leverage existing resources and develop STMJ specific offerings, collaborating closely with Human Resources partners, teams across STMJ, and colleagues across Elsevier/RELX.


Responsibilities


• Empowering hiring managers by aligning our skill needs with job descriptions and interview approaches. Developing an STMJ-specific job description resource.

• Redesigning onboarding content, process, and experience for all STMJ starters, by ensuring customer focus and applying best practices in inclusion and hybrid working.

• Building an interactive, empowered people leader community who share tips and best practice, drive cultural change, and build skills and confidence.

• Establishing a solid recognition approach for STMJ, by evolving annual STMJ Awards and enabling teams to activate recognition mechanisms.

• Empowering individuals to be proactive in developing their career and managers to support them, establishing frameworks to enable movement across teams and flexibility for secondments and gigs.

• Collaborating closely with Skill Building and Learning Manager as unified Learning and Development team within OESE and participating in Elsevier L&D Network.

• Participating actively as a member of the OESE team, doing your part to foster a positive, constructive, psychologically safe and inclusive environment.

• Collaborating effectively with colleagues in Human Resources, across STMJ and Elsevier, following central policies and leveraging central resources.

• Setting goals and measuring progress. Taking a test and learn approach, scaling or pivoting when necessary and evolving and improving plans and offerings over time.

  


Requirements


• Have a passion for building an inclusive, diverse and agile workforce and for fostering the potential of each individual.

• Have experience as a purpose-driven, empathetic manager and have experience designing manager training or new employee onboarding.

• Have detailed knowledge of the publishing business and STMJ strategy. Have deep domain knowledge in at least one area of publishing.

• Be action-oriented and organized with proven ability to develop and deliver on plans. Be able to evaluate success with a data driven approach.

• Be collaborative, love working in teams and have experience bringing diverse people together. Be able to solve complex problems and guide people through change.

• Have excellent communication and presentation skills. Be able to influence in a matrix organization and interact effectively with people in all roles at all levels.

• Be flexible and tolerant of ambiguity. Be able to handle multiple projects and agile to manage opportunities as they arise.

Work in a way that works for you


We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 remotely from home and our office in a flexible, hybrid arrangement

• 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

Working for you


We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career, as this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:


• Health care plans and benefits

• Modern Family Benefits, including maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy

• Life assurance and accident policies

• Comprehensive pension and retirement plans

• Access to learning and development resources


• Your recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location

About the Business


A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.


Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.