Production Editor - Journals

Informa; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-life balance

25 days leave + birthday

Discretionary days off

Volunteer days

Private medical insurance

Employee assistance programme

Share Match

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Job summary

Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, invites applications for a Production Editor in the Journals Production department. You will coordinate interactions between authors, editors and suppliers to ensure timely publication.

We offer balanced hybrid working with at least 3 days in Milton Park, Oxfordshire. Responsibilities include managing publication schedules, budgets and quality, while collaborating across teams and external partners to optimise journal portfolios.

Qualifications

• Teamwork in a collaborative environment
• Ability to work in a process-driven setting
• Experience working with external suppliers and partners
• Project management of small-scale initiatives
• Awareness of publishing industry trends
• Customer-facing experience and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Coordinate interactions between authors, editors and suppliers to ensure timely publication
• Ensure articles and issues publish to agreed schedules and budgets
• Analyse errors and implement corrective actions for quality improvements
• Monitor supplier performance and provide constructive feedback
• Develop knowledge of supplier processes for problem solving and best practice sharing
• Share and communicate best practices with editors, authors, societies, suppliers and colleagues
• Identify opportunities for product changes and advocate benefits to stakeholders
• Collaborate as a proactive team member in a dynamic, flexible team
• Take ownership of your portfolio and manage communications with customers and suppliers

Skills

Teamwork

Process-driven

External suppliers

Project management

Industry awareness

Customer-facing

Job description

Taylor & Francis Group an Informa Business:

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 Group produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.

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.

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.
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care

We have an exciting opportunity within our Journals Production department for a Production Editor to join the team.

Production Editors co-ordinate interactions between authors, editors and suppliers during the publishing of articles and issues. Production Editors work closely with third-party suppliers to deliver excellent customer experience by ensuring the publishing process functions effectively across all journals in their portfolio.

Key responsibilities:

• Communicate effectively to provide timely first-rate customer service for authors, editors, suppliers and societies
• Ensure article and issue publication run to agreed schedules and budgets
• Analyse errors and defects and put corrective actions in place to ensure quality is improved
• Monitor and manage supplier performance and provide constructive feedback to ensure high-quality outputs
• Develop a detailed knowledge of how supplier processes work to collaborate on problem solving, defect management and sharing best practice
• Share and communicate best practice with editors, authors, societies, suppliers and internal colleague
• Understand how journals can be developed and drive through changes to ensure each title is developed to its full potential in line with Taylor & Francis standards
• Identify opportunities for change at the product level and actively sell the benefits to editors and internal colleagues
• Work as an enthusiastic and cooperative team player within a dynamic, effective and flexible team
• Take ownership and accountability for your portfolio of titles including all communication with internal and external customers and suppliers and error management

Qualifications:

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Working as part of a team
• Working in a process-driven environment
• Working with external suppliers and partners
• Project management of small projects
• Industry and market awareness
• Working in a customer-facing role

Previous experience in a similar role is preferred but not essential, full training will be provided.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you're not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces - like at conference - you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

Please note that you must have the right to live and work in the UK for this role

The successful candidate will be able to utiliseour balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within acommutable distance of our Milton Park officeto ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time, with those 3 days a week spent in our office in Milton Park, Oxfordshire.

Please note that our Milton Park office will be relocating to Oxford city centre in late 2027 / early 2028, offering an exciting new workplace in the heart of the city.

Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business

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 can show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, having more time for questions, or anything else. Please ask us; we are happy to be flexible!

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis

If you're excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and contribute regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit-based factor.