Production Editorial Manager

TN United Kingdom; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Production Editorial Manager to lead a dynamic team in the creation of learning resources for English Language Teaching. This role involves managing editorial quality, coordinating with suppliers, and ensuring efficient processes are in place. You will empower your team to adapt to changing market needs while fostering collaboration across project teams. With a hybrid working policy and a commitment to work/life balance, this position offers a supportive environment where your contributions will drive success in educational publishing. Join us to make a meaningful impact in the world of learning and teaching.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 12%

Loans and savings schemes

Travel to work schemes

Access to local discounts

Discretionary annual bonus

Flexible working patterns

Employee networks and societies

Qualifications

• Significant experience in managing production editorial work for educational publishing.
• Excellent technical knowledge of editorial tools including MS Word and PDF markup.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Senior Production Editors and Production Editors.
• Ensure editorial quality standards are met and monitor project progress.

Skills

Management of production editorial work

Copyediting

Proofreading

Managing freelancers and suppliers

Process improvement

Line management

Technical knowledge of editorial tools

Understanding of content structures and XML standards

Knowledge of the ELT market

Working knowledge of foreign languages

Tools

MS Word

PDF markup tools

Authoring tools for interactive content

Job description

As Production Editorial Manager, you will be managing a team responsible for the content production of learning and teaching resources for English Language Teaching products. You will be ensuring that content is on time, on budget, and to agreed quality standards. You will be part of the central Content Delivery management team, within Publishing and Content Operations, working together to effectively coordinate, plan, and quality assure the activities of the production editorial teams and outsourcing partners.

You will enable and empower your team to respond to changing requirements for our products and markets and collaborate with project teams to drive efficiencies and work to align and centralize processes, systems, and data.

Key Accountabilities

• Management of a team of Senior Production Editors and Production Editors.
• Ensuring that editorial quality standards are met by the team and our suppliers.
• Planning resources and allocating workload.
• Monitoring the work in progress on all projects managed by the team.
• Working with our Outsourced Services team to manage suppliers and create budgets.
• Ensure processes and workflows are implemented effectively.
• Support the team and our suppliers by enabling knowledge sharing through training and documented guidelines.

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

About You

Skills and Knowledge

• Significant experience of managing production editorial work for educational publishing, including copyediting, proofreading, and other related tasks.
• Significant experience of managing freelancers and suppliers delivering production editorial work for both print and digital products.
• Experience of reviewing, improving and implementing processes.
• Demonstrated potential to line manage via coaching, mentoring or leading others (line management experience preferred).
• Excellent technical knowledge of editorial tools used, including complex MS Word style sheets, PDF markup and authoring tools for interactive content.

Additional Skills and Experience

• Understanding of content structures and XML standards.
• Knowledge and experience of the ELT market.
• Working knowledge of Spanish, Italian, Polish or another foreign language relevant to the ELT market.
• Experience of working in publishing or a similar industry in a relevant role.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation.

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.