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Elsevier

Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing

Elsevier, New Home, Missouri, United States

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Are you ready to lead the go-to-market strategy for flagship AI-powered solutions that transform how the world discovers and advances knowledge?

About The Team Our Academic & Government team helps our communities accelerate knowledge for a better world by helping to establish, discover and advance knowledge. We do this by turning scientific discoveries into peer reviewed knowledge, hosting the world’s richest corpus of knowledge, allowing users to unlock insights from content and by measuring the quality and impact of research — turning insights into outcomes.

About The Role This role will lead the go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging for Elsevier’s Scopus and Scopus AI offerings — two flagship products central to the company’s innovation and growth agenda. This role ensures these solutions are clearly articulated, competitively differentiated, and effectively launched and supported in the market. You will serve as the voice of the customer within the product marketing process, translating complex technical features into clear, compelling narratives that resonate with academic institutions, researchers, and publishers. This role is instrumental in positioning Elsevier’s AI capabilities as a value differentiator and supporting the company’s ambition to move to portfolio-led, customer-first storytelling.

Responsibilities

Develop strategic value propositions and messaging frameworks for Scopus and Scopus AI

Tailor narratives to distinct audiences: institutional buyers, researchers, funders, and publishers

Lead GTM strategy and execution for new features, releases, and solution enhancements

Partner with Product and Revenue Enablement to manage coordinated launches

Ensure campaigns are supported with accurate messaging, competitive positioning, and materials

Develop sales tools including pitch decks, demo scripts, competitive battlecards, and objection-handling guides

Train sales and marketing colleagues on product value and market positioning

Lead competitive analysis, win/loss analysis, and market research in collaboration with Insights

Synthesize input from product usage, sales feedback, and market data to inform positioning

Contribute to persona development and buyer journey insights

Work across Product, Sales, Innovation, Segment Marketing, Revenue Enablement, and Content

Collaborate with teams marketing to publishers and commercial buyers to ensure messaging coherence

Requirements

Proven 7+ years in B2B/SaaS product or solutions marketing in research data/analytics, delivering portfolio GTM and launches to lift adoption and revenue

Demonstrated mastery of institutional buyers, academic researchers, and complex sales cycles to accelerate deal velocity

Proven GTM leadership with Product, Revenue Enablement, and Segment Marketing to deliver coordinated launches and shorten time-to-revenue

Demonstrated command of AI/GenAI, knowledge graphs, Machine Learning, and data platform integrations in the context of research, data, and/or analytics

Advanced competitive intelligence and win/loss analysis that sharpens positioning and objection handling to lift win rate and ASP

Experience marketing to both content providers (e.g., publishers) and institutional buyers

Proven ability to craft differentiated value propositions and messaging frameworks for data-rich and AI-enabled products to increase pipeline conversion

Advanced writing and narrative skills that translate features into audience-specific stories for buyers, researchers, funders, and publishers to boost engagement

Demonstrated enablement impact producing field-ready decks, demos, battlecards, and training that equip Sales to raise win rate

Collaborative influence across Marketing, Product, and Sales to ensure message coherence and brand consistency

Results-oriented program management juggling multiple projects in a fast-moving environment to deliver smooth launches with quality

Proven ability to establish clear, confident messaging adopted across channels to reinforce Elsevier’s leadership narrative in the research ecosystem

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Marketing and Sales

Industries

Information Services

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