Commissioning Editor - Built Environment - Maternity Cover

Taylor and Francis; Sittingbourne; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Discretionary days off during holidays

Paid volunteering days

Private medical insurance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Taylor & Francis, a leading academic publisher, is seeking a Commissioning Editor for its Built Environment list on a fixed-term maternity cover. Based in Milton Park, Oxfordshire, this hybrid role involves proactive commissioning of monographs and handbooks across Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning.

Working with a small team, you will develop contacts, manage titles to schedule and budget, represent the list at events, and help grow the list through new leads.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial awareness.
• Excellent organisational and teamwork skills.
• Ability to manage multiple titles within budget and schedule.

Responsibilities

• Commissioning new books and handbooks across built environment topics.
• Manage contracted titles to schedule and budget.
• Liaise with internal/external colleagues and represent the list at events.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Highly organized

Teamwork

Lead generation

Job description

Commissioning Editor - Built Environment - Maternity Cover

• Full-time

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. We’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

Routledge/Taylor and Francis has an exciting fixed-term maternity cover vacancy for the position of Commissioning Editor on its Built Environment Research list. This is an excellent opportunity to build on your commissioning experience and progress your career.

Working alongside a team of three other Editors, this position involves the proactive commissioning of monographs and handbooks across a range of built environment topics including Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning.

What you'll be doing:

• Commissioning new books both through existing contacts and generating new leads
• Managing contracted titles to schedule and to budget
• Liaising with internal and external colleagues to further the success of the list
• Representing Routledge at conferences and other events
• Maintaining an Editorial Assistant based in Delhi
• Experience of commissioning academic books would be preferred; though extensive commissioning experience is not necessarily essential.

What we're looking for:

• The successful applicant should possess strong commercial awareness,
• Exhibit an aptitude for highly organised teamwork
• Collegiate attitude towards the sharing of projects and ideas
• The ability to work towards demanding targets is essential.

What we offer in return:

• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
• 25 days annual leave per year plus a day off for your birthday
• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year
• 4 paid volunteering days each year
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care

What you should know:

• Closing date for applications:20th November 2026
• Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis, and we will be shortlisting alongside advertising. We, therefore, encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.
• You must have the right to live and work in the UK.
• This is a hybrid position, with a requirement to work from our Milton Park, Oxfordshire office 3 days each week. To support this working arrangement, we can only consider applicants who are based within a reasonable commuting distance.
• Please note: Our Milton Park office will be relocating from Milton Park Abingdon to Oxford City Centre in late 2027 / early 2028, offering an exciting new workplace in the heart of the city.

Training And Professional Development:

We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible!

Being ‘you’ at Taylor and Francis:

Here at Taylor & Francis, we know that many times the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can feel discouraged about applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. We encourage you to apply if you're excited about working for us and have some of the skills or experience we're looking for. We believe in the notion that many skills and experiences are transferrable, and you could be just what we need! Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly believe in the value of diversity of people and thought. We strive to foster a supportive and inclusive environment where our colleagues can learn, develop, and succeed, all while feeling comfortable with being their true self. We embrace all walks of life regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, or any other protected characteristic under local law.