Kortext - The UK’s #1 student learning content and engagement platform
Job title: Publisher Engagement Manager
Location: Remote
Kortext was founded to empower the next generation of difference-makers through engaged, connected teaching and Learning. In a little over five years, we became the UK's leading personal learning platform and supplier of digital textbooks to universities across the country and around the world. We continue seeing large-scale growth as the need for online teaching and Learning increases rapidly.
More than 2,000 universities around the world use the Kortext platform. In addition, we host over 2 million digital books from over 4,500 publishers, providing students and academics with a seamless connection to the required course content embedded with innovative study tools to increase engagement and accessibility.
Our Role
The Publisher Engagement Manager works collaboratively and cross-functionally with publisher services, partnership sales, marketing and operational teams to manage key publisher relationships. The account manager keeps publishers up to date with the latest Kortext products and solutions, provides training to publisher teams and identifies opportunities to maximise commercial opportunities within existing institutional business.
The role is home based with the expectation of travel to monthly/quarterly on-site customer review meetings if required.
Key responsibilities
• Manage creation of institutional opportunities within Salesforce of publisher related products e.g. Adopt, Publisher Hosted and Publisher Collection business
• Work with publishers and finance to ensure accurate and timely Adopt reporting and billing
• Collaborate with publishers to identify advance publication information for ingestion into Kortext
• Engage with publishers regarding pricing and licencing for institutional deals to maximise Kortext coverage and revenue
• Assists commercial team with analysis of publisher data
• Coordinate publisher and Kortext marketing initiatives to drive engagement at institutions
• Promote and implement Kortext wrapround tools and services to support publisher’s institutional business
• Provide opportunity leads for revenue growth to the partnership team.
• Deliver training sessions on Kortext products and solutions
• Assist publishers with supporting their institutional customers post adoption