Production Editor - Journals

Taylor-and-Franci; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-life balance

25 days leave

Birthday day off

Discretionary days during holidays

Private medical insurance

Well-being support

Share Match

Life assurance

Optical and medical care

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, ensuring smooth publishing across our portfolio and delivering first-rate customer experience.

The role offers a balanced, flexible working culture with three days in the Milton Park office and options to work from home.

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.

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 colleagues
• 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

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.
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care

Job Description

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

  Key responsibilities

  • 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

  The ideal candidate will have knowledge and experience of:

  • 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.

  Additional Information

  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.

  We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.

  If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact your talent acquisition partner. Your request will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.