Senior Executive - Business Liaison

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Executive - Business Liaison to join our New Delhi office. In this role, your core responsibilities will include data analytics, author training, open research (OR) outreach, and driving business growth across Taylor & Francis’s open research portfolio in India and South Asia. With a high degree of autonomy, you'll have the freedom to explore new opportunities and contribute to the business's success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Analytics & Market Research: Utilize tools like Microsoft Excel, Dimensions, Power BI, WOS, Scopus, and Wisdom AI to analyze data and create compelling business analyses, matrices, and pitches based on market research for OR.
• Open Research Expertise: Leverage your knowledge of the open research landscape to drive content and ensure that services align with industry standards and client needs.
• Innovation & Initiative: Innovate and engage our B2B partners (existing and upcoming) by researching their research output, objectives, and challenges to tailor solutions.
• Client Engagement & Support: Serve as a central contact between clients, sales, and editorial teams. Present OA publishing models to prospects and current partners and coordinate with editorial teams to ensure client satisfaction.
• Business Reporting & Financial Management: Track accounts, manage revenue and finance details for the OR SASSA team, and support invoicing and payments. Prepare reports and analyse data to generate insights on regional revenue. Identify gaps, if any.
• Commercial Accountability: As part of the commercial team, this role includes revenue accountability, ensuring that your efforts directly contribute to the financial success of the open research portfolio.
• Collaboration & Campaigns: Partner with the Marketing team to plan and execute promotional activities and client engagement strategies.

This role requires strong data analytics, market research, and financial management skills, along with a proactive and innovative approach to uncovering new business opportunities in the open research landscape.

• Strong analytical and research-oriented background with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Knowledge and experience in academic research publishing are preferable.
• Ability to comprehend research articles across the multiple publishing formats offered by Taylor & Francis’s Open Access portfolio.
• Knowledge of Open Access publishing, including the latest trends and key OA publishing service providers and their models, is preferred.
• Experience in building effective working relationships with different stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Experience in facilitation and conflict resolution.
• Project management skills.
• IT proficiency, particularly in using data applications and MS Office; advanced Excel skills are preferred.
• Financial, industry, and market awareness.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at a conference – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

The successful candidate will be able to utilize our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance to our New Delhi office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.​

Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis, and we will be interviewing alongside advertising. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity. 

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis 

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life. 

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor. 

If you have a disability, or face another barrier,  and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact [email protected]. Your request will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers 

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F. 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/life/79e0c27c-afdf-4bbb-84e6-5f8ed5e10bb8/ 

Taylor & Francis Group an Informa Business

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.  As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under local law.    This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Talent Acquisition team for more information. 

To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: https://taylorandfrancis.com/careers/