AI Partnerships Manager

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Job Description Summary:

Wiley's AI Growth team is seeking a Manager, AI Partnerships to support its rapidly growing AI business. The AI Growth team is forging strategic partnerships to accelerate the pace of research, drive sustainable AI revenue, scale distribution, enhance capabilities, and strengthen Wiley's brand, influence, and competitive position in the AI ecosystem.
The AI Partnerships function within the AI Growth team is critical to this effort, by defining partnership strategic directions and objectives, establishing and implementing effective partnership structures, and coordinating across Wiley's internal functions and external partners to deliver on agreed outcomes and ensure the success of each partnership.
Reporting to the Director of AI Market Strategy, this role will drive the success of Wiley's AI partnerships by serving as the day-to-day relationship manager with key partners, ensuring priorities and needs flow seamlessly between Wiley and its partners. It will operationalize governance structures and engagement cadences, including joint workshops, to deepen alignment and surface new growth opportunities. The role will also collaborate closely with Sales and Marketing to support lead generation and go-to-market activities while project managing partnership set-ups and implementations across Wiley's matrixed functions to create scalable playbooks for execution. In addition, it will oversee the day-to-day operations of partnerships, resolving issues quickly and tracking performance against business objectives and recommending improvements to strengthen the partnerships over time.

Job Description Responsibilities:

• Serve as the day-to-day relationship manager with partners, maintaining regular engagement, ensuring that partnership priorities and needs flow effectively between Wiley and partners
• Establish and run governance and regular meeting cadences with partners and internal stakeholders, including periodic joint workshops to surface new opportunities. Manage the day-to-day operations of the partnerships and proactively escalate and resolve issues.
• Project manage the set-up and implementation of new partnerships across Wiley's matrixed functions, and build a scalable playbook for repeatable execution.
• Work closely with partners, Sales, and Marketing to identify, prioritize and drive joint lead generation opportunities and go-to-market initiatives.
• Tracking performance against business objectives and KPIs and recommending improvements to expand and strengthen the partnerships over time.
• Significant experience in partnership management, project management and stakeholder management
• Understanding of AI technologies, market development and key players in the AI landscape desirable
• Strategic analysis, market analysis and some financial modeling/forecasting skills
• Strong communication, storytelling and structured problem solving skills
• Proficiency in Power BI, Excel, BigQuery, think-cell, Power Automate
• Team coordination, strong collaboration skills and experience working in a matrixed team
• Operational problem-solving and decision-making

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field
• 3-5 years of experience in corporate strategy, finance, or consulting
• With further experience in a commercial role
• Research publishing or adjacent industries experience is a plus
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred

About Wiley:

Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they work to solve the world's most important challenges. We are advocates of advancement, empowering knowledge-seekers to transform today's biggest obstacles into tomorrow's brightest opportunities.

With over 200 years of experience in publishing, we continue to evolve knowledge seekers' steps into strides, illuminating their path forward to personal, educational, and professional success at every stage. Around the globe, we break down barriers for innovators, empowering them to advance discoveries in their fields, adapt their workforces, and shape minds.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the United Kingdom, Canada or USA. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

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