Associate Publisher - Journals
About the position
- Support the day to day management and development of a portfolio of high value
society contracts to a degree of excellence that enhances OUP’s standing in the learned society and publishing landscape.
- Work with the Publisher, Senior Publisher or Executive Publisher to respond to
queries and requests from societies and editors in a fast paced and effective manner.
- Build strong relationships with Editors and key society contacts.
- Provide data analysis to enable evidence-based decision making for
strategic/editorial development of journals, including: - Bibliometric analysis to understand drivers for impact factor - Competitor analysis - Emerging trends - New journal launches - Content growth.
- Monitor adherence to contractual terms for all journals in your portfolio,
including provision of journal accounts, member commitments, editorial board commitments.
- Responsibility for regular journal specific projects such as co-publications.
- Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups (especially
production, marketing, digital) to deliver an excellent service for society partners.
- Work with finance and operations colleagues to assist in management of costs
for the portfolio.
- Assist with the transition process and ongoing management for newly acquired
titles and new launches in the portfolio.
- Facilitate the roll out of OUP journal policies across the portfolio.
- Assist with implementation of projects that scale across the journals program.
Responsibilities
- Support the day to day management and development of a portfolio of high value society contracts
- Respond to queries and requests from societies and editors
- Build strong relationships with Editors and key society contacts
- Provide data analysis to enable evidence-based decision making for strategic/editorial development of journals
- Monitor adherence to contractual terms for all journals in your portfolio
- Responsibility for regular journal specific projects such as co-publications
- Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups
- Work with finance and operations colleagues to assist in management of costs for the portfolio
- Assist with the transition process and ongoing management for newly acquired titles and new launches in the portfolio
- Facilitate the roll out of OUP journal policies across the portfolio
- Assist with implementation of projects that scale across the journals program
Requirements
- 2+ year(s) publishing or transferable professional experience
- An understanding of academic publishing, including editorial processes, production processes, marketing, industry trends, systems, competitors, and technology.
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience with stakeholder management
- Strong organizational skills
- An ability to work independently
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify trends
Benefits
- We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 10 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week.
- We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role.
- We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
- We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees.
- Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP.
- In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance.
- We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.
- We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.