Publishing Platform Lead: Strategy & Delivery

Royal Society of Chemistry; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry is recruiting a Publishing Platform Manager to oversee the journals platform, ensuring effective operation, development and alignment with publishing strategy. The role offers hybrid working with occasional UK travel and home-working flexibility within the UK.

You will work closely with Product, Technology and publishing staff, managing the roadmap, vendor relationships and platform improvements to enhance content discoverability and production efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience managing or supporting digital publishing platforms and systems.
• Experience communicating with technology providers and managing external vendors.
• Strong ability to prioritise and manage competing priorities.
• Proven ability to engage with diverse stakeholders to achieve goals.
• Ability to gather requirements from stakeholders and translate for technical teams.
• Willingness to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to changes.
• Understanding of academic publishing editorial and production processes (e.g. metadata).

Responsibilities

• Support the journals platform as it moves into BAU and assist with onboarding new processes.
• Help define the future roadmap for development of the journals platform with Product management and vendors.
• Identify opportunities for improvements to feed into the roadmap.
• Lead delivery of the platform roadmap with vendors and internal teams.
• Improve content discoverability, accessibility and reusability on the platform.
• Maintain knowledge of platform developments and share industry best practices.
• Ensure platform content has clear owners and is well maintained.
• Manage vendor relationships and monitor performance with the Systems Support team.
• Monitor platform performance and user interaction to identify trends and issues.
• Ensure VPAT alignment and accessibility standards for the platform.
• Monitor spend and advise on budget use for the platform.
• Become a trusted admin for the journals platform and provide user guidance.
• Document configuration and provide training to the Systems Support team.

Skills

Platform management

Vendor management

Stakeholder engagement

Roadmap development

Content publishing workflows

Technical problem solving

Job description

The Royal Society of Chemistry is recruiting a Publishing Platform Manager to oversee the journals platform, ensuring effective operation, development and alignment with publishing strategy. The role offers hybrid working with occasional UK travel and home-working flexibility within the UK.

You will work closely with Product, Technology and publishing staff, managing the roadmap, vendor relationships and platform improvements to enhance content discoverability and production efficiency.