Senior Strategy Manager

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Senior Strategy Manager

Department: Business Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Richard Caruso

Description

You will sit at the centre of ALM / Law Business Research'sstrategic agenda, translating ambiguous business questions into clear hypotheses, sharp analyses, and actionable recommendations. Unlike large consulting engagements, you will stay to see your work implemented - and own the outcomes.

The role spans four interconnected areas:

• Growth & market strategy - identifying and sizing expansion opportunities across segments, geographies, and product categories within our B2B information, events, and digital media portfolio.
• AI and product innovation - defining where AI and data can create differentiated propositions for our customers, working with product and editorial teams to bring ideas to life.
• Strategic partnerships - sourcing, structuring, and developing partnerships that open new distribution, content, or technology pathways; this is a meaningful and growing part of the role.
• Pricing, monetization & commercial strategy - building models and frameworks on subscription economics, pricing architecture, bundling, and customer lifetime value to improve commercial performance across the portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead structured workstreams on the group's most important strategic initiatives, managing scope, analysis, stakeholder coordination, and delivery of board-level recommendations.
• Run market, customer, and competitive analyses in B2B information, events, and digital media - synthesizing findings into crisp insight that actually changes decisions.
• Develop and stress-test strategic partnership opportunities: identify potential partners, define the value exchange, and support commercial negotiation and structuring.
• Build commercially grounded models and frameworks - market sizing, scenario planning, pricing analysis, customer lifetime value - to underpin investment, product, and go-to-market decisions.
• Support the CSO in preparing materials for the executive team, board, and investors - translating complex analysis into concise narratives and clear recommendations.
• Partner with business unit leaders to convert strategy into execution plans with measurable milestones and KPIs, tracking progress as conditions evolve.
• Contribute to building LBR/ALM's internal strategy capability - playbooks, analytical templates, and repeatable frameworks that raise the bar across the organization.

What Makes This Role Distinctive

• Direct access and influence - you will work alongside the CSO day-to-day, with clear line-of-sight to executive and board-level priorities from the outset.
• Own the outcome, not just the slide - unlike consulting, you will stay to see your recommendations implemented and your models tested against reality.
• A genuinely interesting strategic moment - post-merger portfolio integration, AI-enabled proposition building, and a live M&A and partnerships pipeline across an international B2B platform.
• Material scope, quickly - you will own significant workstreams rather than small slices of large projects, and you will be stretched across strategy, commercial analysis, and execution.
• A culture that values thinking and doing equally - analytical rigor is expected, but so is bias to action. We are not a slide-ware culture.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We are deliberately looking for candidates who have developed their craft in environments where rigorous thinking and commercial sharpness matter. The following background signals are particularly relevant, though we value substance over pedigree:

• 5 - 10 years of total experience, with a meaningful portion in strategy consulting, specialist commercial due diligence, or a high-calibre in-house strategy function.
• Experience at a specialist strategy or sector-focused consultancy is particularly valued.
• A track record of project-managing complex workstreams end-to-end: structuring the problem, driving the analysis, aligning stakeholders, and landing the recommendation at C-suite or board level.
• Direct experience in or adjacent to one or more of: subscription and recurring revenue models, B2B information or data businesses, digital media, or technology-enabled services.
• Comfort working with imperfect data to produce directionally sound, timely insight - you know that 'good and fast' often beats 'perfect and late.'
• Some exposure to partnership development, commercial structuring, or investor-grade business planning is a plus, but not a prerequisite.

Skills & Attributes

• Structured problem-solver - able to decompose complex, ambiguous questions into clear workplans and testable hypotheses without losing sight of the commercial question being answered.
• Commercially instinctive - you understand what drives value in information, and media businesses and can identify the levers that really move the needle.
• Strong, precise communicator - able to build trust quickly with senior stakeholders and present nuanced findings in a way that drives decisions, not just discussion.
• Collaborative and low-ego - comfortable operating as a trusted thought partner to business leaders and functional specialists, and willing to roll up your sleeves when needed.
• Growth mindset - motivated by learning, rapid iteration, and building something - not just advising from the outside.

About Centellic

Centellic stands at the center of the markets it serves, empowering organizations with indispensable data and insight to make critical decisions on growth, risk and opportunity.

Through proprietary data, deep market expertise and AI-enabled technology, our platforms are embedded in client workflows. That capability is underpinned by our events, which bring the market together to share perspective and deepen understanding of the issues shaping each sector. Together, they give organizations earlier visibility of emerging trends, and the clarity and confidence to act when decisions matter.

At Centellic, we're a global intelligence and information services business, setting the standard for how critical business decisions are made.

Why Centellic?

At Centellic, we help our clients make better decisions, and our people are at the heart of that work. Every individual plays an important role in this, bringing curiosity and high standards to everything they do.

Those who thrive here take ownership, care deeply about their work and are committed to excellence. Standards are high because our people set them that way. And while we have decades of expertise, we are still growing, pushing and building something extraordinary.

Centellic's advantage is our people and the culture we've created together. It's an environment where individuality is encouraged, relationships are genuine, and there's a strong sense of purpose in what we're building together. Collaborative, respectful and driven, we take our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.

Benefits

Our people are our most valuable asset, as such, we offer a wide range of benefits to help ensure that all are supported:

• Start of employment:
  • Eye care
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • A day off for your birthday
• After 3 months employment:
  • Pension (4% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution)
• After 4 months employment:
  • Life assurance
• After probation:
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • GBP 350 annual wellbeing allowance to contribute to gym memberships or fitness classes
  • Puregym access
  • Perks at work platform access
• After 1 year service:
  • Private healthcare
• Additional Perks:
  • Company socials
  • Access to Employee Affinity Networks
  • Mentoring scheme
  • Volunteering Day
  • Mortgage Advice
  • Work from anywhere (2 weeks)
  • Generous parental leave

We are committed to making our organisation an inclusive, respectful & engaging place to work with a culture shaped by our core values that promote equality, collaboration & respect in everything we do. We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident Scheme, meaning we are committed to being inclusive and accessible, which starts with our application and recruitment process. If you do require any reasonable adjustments to be made, please let us know as part of our application page.

'We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, gender identity/expression or reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.'