Associate Pricing Director (Academic)

Location: London Blackfriars office, United Kingdom; candidates must live within a commutable distance and have the right to live and work in the UK. In-person work is required three days a week or more, with flexibility to work from home or remotely at other times.

Company

hirify.global is a FTSE 100 academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events group. Taylor & Francis produces peer-reviewed books and journals for academics and professionals worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead strategic pricing projects for subscription journals, transformative agreements, eBooks, and Open Books.
• Develop annual pricing updates, packaging strategies, new propositions, and innovative business models.
• Own pricing strategy implementation, risk mitigation, operational excellence, and cross-functional alignment.
• Define and automate pricing metrics, performance tracking, and competitive benchmarking.
• Develop AI-driven pricing models and automated systems that support real-time decision-making.
• Influence Editorial, Commercial, Marketing, and executive stakeholders through workshops, planning sessions, reports, and briefings.

Requirements

• Proven experience developing and implementing pricing strategies that drive revenue growth and profitability.
• Strategic pricing experience in a niche consultancy or an in-house strategic pricing team, preferably in data hirify.globaltion services.
• Advanced analytical skills with SQL, Python, R, Tableau, and Power BI.
• Experience automating pricing performance metrics and competitive benchmarking.
• Experience delivering global initiatives across multiple countries and regions, with strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Right to live and work in the UK and residence within commuting distance of the London Blackfriars office are required.

Nice to have

• Experience in the pricing function of an academic publisher.

Culture & Benefits

• Balanced hybrid working model with office collaboration three days a week or more and flexibility to work remotely at other times.
• 25 days of annual leave, a birthday day off, and three additional discretionary holiday-season days.
• Four paid volunteering days annually.
• Company-funded private medical insurance, life assurance, optical and medical care, and an employee assistance programme.
• Share Match plan and pension scheme.