SSP Building your career in Scholarly Communication, UK event - Andrew Sandland
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Senior Business Development and Strategy Manager at OUP, Andrew Sandland, speaks at the SSP UK regional event 'Building your career in Scholarly Communication: tips, tricks and everything you ever wanted to know!' The event took place on the 30th April 2019 at OUP offices, Oxford, UK. About: Andy has worked across several different journals and books functions within the Academic Division at OUP, mainly specialising in medical publishing, but in his current role he has moved departments to take a broader-scope position developing the sales and licensing strategy, ensuring that the various third-party relationships that OUP uses to get its content to the market are co-ordinated and optimised.
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SSP Building your career in Scholarly Communication, UK event - Andrew Sandland
- 1. Andrew Sandland Oxford University Press Senior Business Development and Strategy Manager
- 2. SSP CAREER DEVELOPMENT: ANDREW SANDLAND @andysandland VERTICAL CAREER ASPIRATIONS MAY BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE ▸We work in a flat industry ▸We work for a long time ▸Industry roles are increasingly integrated and dependent ▸You cannot know what you want to do when you are 21, why limit yourself to what you chose?
- 3. BREADTH BRINGS VALUE ▸Break corporate silos ▸Understand more ▸Seek breadth in your current role SSP CAREER DEVELOPMENT: ANDREW SANDLAND @andysandland
- 4. EMBRACE CORE BUSINESS SKILLS SSP CAREER DEVELOPMENT: ANDREW SANDLAND @andysandland
- 5. OPPORTUNITY ISN’T (ALWAYS) PRETTY ▸You probably don’t know what the next opportunity looks like ▸Change is your friend ▸It may not tick all of your boxes ▸It may surprise you ▸It won’t be forever SSP CAREER DEVELOPMENT: ANDREW SANDLAND @andysandland
- 6. FIVE(ISH) THINGS ▸Focusing on solely vertical aspirations may be counterproductive ▸Breadth brings value to you and your organisation ▸Embrace core business skills and be interested in what makes your business tick ▸Be luckier (opportunity isn’t always pretty) ▸Change is your friend ▸Relationships are hugely important SSP CAREER DEVELOPMENT: ANDREW SANDLAND @andysandland
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- Thanks Interesting/Daunting No answers, but illustrations May change how you view CD, or how you max access to opp
- General message is to advocate for breadth 13 years / 7 jobs First job, ‘what next’ moment Common problem Effort to get into publishing, realise flat Emotive / survey Promotion / Development No! Traverses look sideways is a watershed moment Books to journals made me rare, changing function made me a curiosity David Clarke
- Why Leverage Knowledge Product Market Institutional Understanding Needs/strength/weaknesses/priorities Relationships (keep coming back to this) (important, foster) BD role application Product advocate Surprised / achieving new things Much better at it and more valuable to the business Breaking Silos created structural and career dvp silos How can you begin to build it? Internal/external exposure Internal networking
- Specifically P&L of department, business Not doing it, not speaking the same language You can be most useful when looking at same metrics All work for businesses, even at mission based Still subject to language of business, financial language Operating contribution, what it is, what contributes to that, how you can improve it, you’re not speaking the same language You will be more useful Helps to understand, helps to ask questions, pertinent, impertinent - impression
- You probably don’t know what the next thing looks like Every new job role has been catalysed by change, personal, business Develop a healthy attitude, Doesn’t always feel good, but these are the niches where opportunity exists Change = security, constant, it’s going to be going on for a long time Range of opportunity is the richest Take the ugly opportunities A chance to develop breadth, next bus, platform
- People and business relationships moved me around, not naked ambition, not job applications. It’s a very effective way of developing your career.