Job Title: Vice President, Open Access

Location: London or Heidelberg 

Reports to: Chief Commercial Officer

Application Deadline:  29th August 2025

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About the Role

The Vice President, Open Access is a senior strategic leader responsible for driving Springer Nature’s global Open Access (OA) commercial strategy and ensuring a sustainable transition to OA publishing. Reporting directly to the Chief Commercial Officer, the VP is a member of the Senior Leadership Group and plays a key role within the Commercial Team and Publishing leadership teams.

This role operates within a highly collaborative matrix environment, working closely with colleagues across publishing, sales, finance, product, and technology to align and implement the company’s OA strategy. The VP leads a global OA team and oversees all aspects of OA revenue, pricing, agreements, policy, and innovation.

We are looking for a decisive and results-oriented, strategic thinker with strong analytical and financial capabilities.

This role requires proven leadership experience in OA and scholarly publishing and will require a collaborative leader with a global mindset and strong business acumen. It is critical that you are comfortable navigating complexity and driving change in a dynamic environment. In addition, your strong commercial acumen and experience managing complex budgets, forecasting, and revenue performance is essential. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Revenue Strategy, Forecasting & Performance

Lead the development and delivery of OA revenue across the Springer Nature portfolio, including FOA, hybrid OA, Transformative/OA publishing agreements, and OA books.

Open Access Agreements, Business Models & Commercial Governance

Oversee the global pipeline of transformative and OA agreements, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and financial sustainability.Provide strategic input and participate in high-value negotiations with national consortia and institutions, acting as the senior OA expert.Inform APC pricing strategy and implementation in collaboration with pricing team, ensuring competitiveness, sustainability, and equitable access.Drive innovation through pilot programs and strategic initiatives that support OA growth and a path to Open Science.
 

Strategy, Policy & Market Intelligence

Develop and implement the company’s OA business and transition strategy, including mid-term planning and C-suite engagement.Represent Springer Nature as a thought leader in the OA space, speaking as necessary at industry events and conferences.

Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing global OA team.Steer OA-related projects and systems development, including commercial infrastructure and data enablement initiatives.Collaborate with product, IT, and operational teams to prioritize and implement OA capabilities that support scale, efficiency, and growth.

To apply for the position, please submit a CV and a cover letter outlining your key ambitions in the role.

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent.

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Job Posting End Date:

30-08-2025