Assistant Manager, OA Strategy

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Assistant Manager for Open Access Strategy, providing essential support to manage and develop their OA program. You'll handle customer relationships, analyze data, and promote workflow improvements. This role offers a hybrid working environment in Oxford and a good work-life balance, with benefits including a generous holiday policy and pension contributions.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 12%

Loans and savings schemes

Local discounts

Discretionary annual payment

Qualifications

• Experience in publishing or transferable professional roles.
• Understanding of open access business and sales models.
• Knowledge of editorial and production processes in journals.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with Read and Publish customers.
• Provide problem-solving support for the OA strategy team.
• Gather market intelligence on open access and research.

Skills

Time management

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Data analysis

Education

Publishing experience

Job description

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As our new Assistant Manager for Open Access Strategy, you will provide high-level support to the open access (OA) strategy team in managing, administering, analysing, and developing the Press’s OA and open research programme.

Duties will include:

• Manage relationships with selected Read and Publish customers. Ensure the efficient application of their OA publishing accounts, particularly through good communication, improving workflows, and data management.
• Support colleagues in the OA strategy team with management of wider Read and Publish accounts.
• Provide problem-solving support and analysis for the OA strategy team.
• Respond to external and internal queries and requests about the OA programme. Liaise with internal departments to resolve issues raised by authors and journal editors.
• Provide accurate and clear data on the OA programme to assist with communications, reporting, OA policy decisions, and OA sales arrangements.
• Gather market intelligence on OA and open research including monitoring competitor activity to help keep journals staff informed on industry developments and to inform OA and open research strategy.
• Maintain and develop internal and external OA training and communication resources.
• Support the continuous improvement of author and customer open access workflows, including through suggesting and implementing improvements. Document best practice.
• Participate in and represent OUP at designated external publishing/industry groups and initiatives.
• Attend appropriate conferences and industry events as appropriate and compile summary reports on those events to distribute internally.

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

About You

• Publishing or transferable professional experience.
• Understanding of open access, including business models, sales models, policy initiatives, and the opportunities, sensitivities, and challenges of open access models.
• Understanding of journals publishing, including editorial processes, production processes, marketing, industry trends, systems, competitors, and technology.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to analyse data effectively.

Please note this is a 6 month fixed term contract covering maternity leave, with the possibility of an extension.

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 the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

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