Global Head of Institutional Marketing

Global Head of Institutional Marketing
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Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Global Head of Institutional Marketing to lead our institutional marketing strategy worldwide. This is a senior leadership role with real commercial impact, responsible for shaping how we engage with institutions, librarians and researchers across all regions.

You will lead a high‑performing global marketing team, delivering innovative, digitally enabled marketing strategies that support transformative agreements, journal subscriptions, archives and e‑books. Working closely with senior sales leadership and regional teams, you will align marketing activity to sales objectives, driving customer retention and new business growth.

As a member of the Senior Sales & Marketing Management Team, you will play a key role in delivering our wider business priorities and ensuring our marketing capability is seen as cutting‑edge within scholarly publishing.

Key responsibilities

Lead and develop a modern, digitally enabled global institutional marketing organisation

Own and deliver the global institutional marketing strategy, aligned to sales and business objectives

Oversee all institutional marketing plans, including transformative agreement onboarding and engagement

Partner closely with Sales leadership across Americas, EMEA and Rest of World to align priorities and execution

Manage and develop a global team (4 direct reports; 11 colleagues overall), fostering accountability, collaboration and high performance

Drive effective use of marketing technology and data to deliver measurable ROI

Ensure delivery of marketing activity to budget, timelines and agreed objectives

Work closely with Content & Engagement Marketing to maximise impact across institutional audiences

What success looks like

The organisation is recognised as innovative and forward‑thinking in institutional and scholarly publishing marketing

Marketing investments deliver clear commercial impact and return on investment

Global marketing plans are delivered effectively, on budget and on target

Teams are empowered, accountable and consistently high‑performing

About you
You will be a strategic marketing leader with deep experience in global journal publishing and institutional markets. You combine commercial focus with creativity, and you are comfortable influencing at senior levels across complex, matrixed organisations.

You will bring

Degree‑level education (marketing qualification desirable but not essential)

Extensive experience of journal publishing and global institutional marketing

Strong understanding of the challenges facing researchers, librarians, funders and learned societies

A proven track record of delivering growth through strategic marketing initiatives

Experience leading and developing global teams

Exceptional communication, presentation and influencing skills

Confidence operating across cultures, regions and senior stakeholder groups

Key strengths

Customer focus and relationship‑building

Drive for results and commercial impact

Team leadership and people development

Negotiation and influencing without authority

Strategic thinking, innovation and business acumen

Why join us?
This is a rare opportunity to shape and lead global institutional marketing at scale, with direct impact on significant revenue growth and long‑term customer relationships. You’ll work with talented colleagues worldwide, influence senior strategy, and help define the future of marketing in scholarly publishing.

Occasional international travel is expected.

Who We Are
IOP Publishing is a society-owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community. As the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, 100% of our profit goes towards public and scientific good.

Why work with us at IOP Publishing
Purpose
We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community – working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

Culture
We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.

Financial benefits
a competitive salary starting from £70,000 (Band E) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, and a range of other useful and cost‑saving benefits available through our benefits platform.

Health and Wellbeing
33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), plus an extra day’s leave to use for a moment that matters to you, a 35‑hour working week, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol – modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time.

Flexibility
a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs – we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol at least once per quarter and team in‑person days, depending on when face‑to‑face time is needed (any travel to the Bristol office is at the employee's own expenses).

And last but not least, IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not‑for‑profit society and we gift‑aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.
IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under‑represented backgrounds.

We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there’s anything that we can do to support you.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.

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