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Advancing Knowledge and Learning

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is responsible for the business development and project management of special supplement issues of professional medical journals.

Key responsibilities include:

Meet and exceed revenue targets by proactively generating new business opportunities.

Represent OUP at major conferences exhibiting a knowledgeable and professional manner.

Work with medical societies, Editors-in-Chief and editorial staff to identify new topics, contributors, and sponsors for publications.

Develop relationships with medical societies, key opinion leaders, industry partners (pharmaceutical and device companies), and medical communication companies.

Develop an in-depth understanding of medical specialty markets, particularly drug pipelines, lead qualification and generation, customer identification (and data gathering).

Maintain strong sales pipeline.

Cold call new prospects and strengthen relationships with previous customers.

Keep appraised of industry developments, regulations, and market trends.

Work interdepartmentally with editorial and production to manage supplement publication process and meet publication deadlines.

ABOUT YOU

Education: BA or BS

Experience: minimum 3 years in a publishing environment

Strong proficiency in MS Office 360 and Salesforce

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 8 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 all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.

We help make 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.

This role also includes a sales bonus.

Location: This role is hybrid in Cary, NC or remote in the United States.

Salary: $46,550 - $69,825 dependent on skills and experience

GJC: I5 (for internal purposes only)