Portfolio Marketing Director

Company: Elsevier
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Location: Cambridge
Job Description:

Overview

As Global Portfolio Marketing Director, you steer the GTM strategy for a $450M multi-vertical B2B portfolio. You align product, sales and lifecycle marketing, shaping propositions and brand across six markets to drive penetration, renewals, and cross-sell. You lead a small team of senior managers, embedding customer insights into scalable, market-ready plans. This role blends strategy, storytelling, and cross-functional leadership to accelerate growth and ensure consistent execution at scale.

Pay / Benefits

  • Competitive base salary
  • Equity / long-term incentives
  • Flexible hybrid working model (3 days in office)
  • Private health insurance
  • Enhanced pension contribution
  • Generous annual leave

Responsibilities

  • Translate customer insights into a unified portfolio-level GTM strategy across six markets
  • Define ICPs, personas, positioning, and competitive frameworks per vertical and ensure consistency across content and sales
  • Lead annual and quarterly GTM planning with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Commercial Directors, Sales)
  • Develop and supervise a portfolio-wide insights programme (VOC, CI, value proof points, win/loss, analyst input)
  • Partner with Product Management on product launches and readiness, enabling cross-functional coordination
  • Hire, develop and coach a team of 5–6 Senior Marketing Managers and set clear OKRs/KPIs
  • Collaborate with Lifecycle teams to translate strategy into acquisition, adoption, cross-sell/upsell, and renewal programs
  • Guide content strategy and sales enablement to ensure assets are current and fit-for-purpose
  • Represent six market verticals’ insights to global Product and Marketing leadership to influence roadmap
  • Balance protection of recurring revenue with acceleration of new revenue through cross-sell and new-logo acquisition

Key requirements

  • Solid progressive B2B marketing experience in senior portfolio/product/solutions leadership
  • Proven success managing a complex multi-product portfolio at or above $250M revenue
  • People-management experience with teams of 4+
  • Deep expertise in B2B GTM strategy, positioning, messaging, and launches
  • Strong commercial acumen linking marketing to pipeline, revenue and retention metrics
  • Experience across multiple markets and ability to navigate cultural/linguistic differences
  • Excellent executive communication and storytelling for C-suite and large audiences
  • Proficiency with CRM (Salesforce), MAP (Marketo/HubSpot), analytics (Tableau/Power BI), and CMS
  • Bachelor’s in Marketing, Business, or related field; MBA advantageous
  • Fluency in English; German/French/Dutch/Spanish/Italian desirable
  • Collaborative and cross-functional leadership
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Strategic storytelling and executive presence
  • Salesforce
  • Marketo or HubSpot
  • Tableau or Power BI

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Posted: September 14th, 2026