Senior Production Editor

Job description

About the Role

In this role you will be supporting a fast-paced and diversified Academic publishing programme within Content Operations. This position oversees and supports external supplier project managers as they organize the production of content from delivery to production until publication in print and digital formats such that products of appropriate quality are available to the market at the right time, cost, and quality. The team also provides specialism in books requiring a high level of author care and attention to detail across a diverse range of academic, scholarly, and trade titles, including classics, history, law, linguistics, literature, religion, and science.

Duties include:

• Oversee the work of third-party supplier project managers in the production on print and online academic books content
• Oversee the communication of third-party supplier project managers with all project stakeholders
• Support and advise third-party supplier project managers on the analysis and resolution of manifold issues as they arise in the production process
• Liaise and coordinate with pre-press suppliers
• Facilitate continuous improvement by mentoring and coaching third-party supplier project managers
• Proactively contribute to or initiate the analysis and resolution of problems relating from, or causing, supplier performance issues in conjunction with pre-press suppliers and OUP stakeholders such that a satisfactory outcome is achieved, and the recurrence of problems is averted.
• Generate, engage with, and implement business process improvements and transformations
• As required, manage the production process on titles requiring high levels of care and attention to detail
• Support the line manager so that the department workload is successfully managed

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

• Ability to empathise, support, and collaborate with others on problem resolution and to step back and entrust others with implementation
• Flexibility, creativity, and initiative in problem solving, along with an ability to identify the root cause and facilitate path to success
• Excellent prioritization and organization skills, including ability to manage a busy workload with strict and often conflicting deadlines in a fast-paced project management environment
• Ability to build relationships, influence, and negotiate with key stakeholders (up to manager level), including authors, often through difficult situations requiring skills in advocacy and diplomacy
• Good experience and understanding of print and digital production processes and workflow, including experience of managing third party suppliers
• Good experience and understanding of copy-editing, proofreading, and indexing processes, including experience of managing freelance editorial personnel
• Precision in written and verbal communication along with good attention to detail
• Good numeracy with the ability to create a budget
• Good IT skills, including standard Microsoft Office package, and ability to learn new technologies

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with a discretionary annual bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] with any queries relating to this role.

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.