Project Manager, Journals

Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.; Dadri; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Gratuity

Employer NPS

Mediclaim for self, spouse, and up to

Accidental insurance

Term Life Insurance

Five-day working week

Performance-based Bonus

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. in Noida, India, is seeking a Project Manager (Journals) to oversee the end-to-end editorial and production process for journals, from acceptance to online and print publication, ensuring quality and timely delivery.

The candidate will coordinate editors and authors, track workflows, and ensure all inputs are incorporated while maintaining journal health. This role accepts a postgraduate with 2–3 years of relevant experience and requires excellent English and

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree from a reputed university.
• 2–3 years of editorial and production experience in journal publishing.
• Excellent English language proficiency.
• Strong communication to coordinate editors, authors and production teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate artwork processing for journals.
• Maintain relationships and schedule reviews with Journal Editors and authors.
• Incorporate inputs from authors/editors into articles and issues.
• Fix initial elements for launch journals (Instructions to Authors, Aims and Scope, etc.).
• Track editorial and production work and provide reports to stakeholders.
• Ensure quality and adherence to schedule in pre-editing, copyediting, typesetting and revisions.

Skills

Editorial & production

Communication skills

English proficiency

Planning & scheduling

Education

Postgraduate degree

Job description

Job ID: 2110

Thieme is an award-winning international medical and scientific publisher with a rich history of 130+ years. Thieme has demonstrated its commitment to the highest standard of quality in the state-of-art content and presentation of all of its products. Thieme is a multinational company with offices in 4 countries, Stuttgart – Germany, New York – the U.S.A., Noida – India, and Rio – Brazil.The Project Manager (PM)-Journals will be responsible for overseeing the entire editorial and production process of the journals assigned to him/her, from the stage of acceptance of articles to the stage of their online and print publication, maintaining the overall health of the journals.

Roles & Responsibilities

• He/she must coordinate the work of any artwork processing requirements for the journals.
• He/she must maintain good relationships and proactively communicate schedules and review inputs with Journal Editors and authors, keeping the best interests of the publishing house in mind.
• He/she must ensure that all inputs provided by authors/Journal Editors in their reviews are incorporated in the articles and issues correctly.
• In case of launch journals, he/she must get all the initial elements fixed (Instructions to Authors, Aims and Scope, Editorial Board page, layout, cover, etc.) and coordinate with Journal Editors to settle processes and workflow.
• He/she will be responsible for tracking the editorial and production work of his/her journals, providing reports pertaining to these to all relevant parties, and maintaining all production records for his/her journals.
• For online and print publication of journal articles and issues, he/she must ensure quality and adherence to schedule in Pre-editing, Copyediting, Typesetting, Author’s review & Revision(s).

Required Background & skills:

• Must be a postgraduate in any discipline from a reputed university, with at least 2-3 years of experience in editorial and production work of journal publishing.
• Must have excellent English language proficiency and must be able to conduct quality checks of editorial and production work.
• Must have good communication skills to be able to manage relationships and share information with stakeholders.
• Must have the good technical knowledge to judge how a long processing step would take, discern any potential problem, suggest solutions, and plan the work accordingly.

We offer the following benefits to our employees:

• Hybrid Working Model, 3 days per week in the office
• Gratuity
• Employer NPS
• Mediclaim for the self, spouse, and up to three children
• Accidental insurance
• Term Life Insurance
• Five-day working week
• Performance-based Bonus
• Paid parental leave