Assistant Manager / Manager - Journals Publishing

• Lead the Open Access Journal Publishing department and help develop and implement the overall publishing strategy.
• Provide hands-on leadership to the journal production team, working closely with journal stakeholders, editors, clients, and internal teams.
• Manage and monitor the end-to-end journal production workflow, ensuring efficient coordination across editorial, copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, quality control, and final delivery.
• Implement and continuously improve publishing processes, workflows, and quality standards to ensure journals are delivered on time and within agreed budgets.
• Take ownership of successful journal delivery in accordance with client requirements, SLAs, quality standards, and agreed timelines.
• Plan and organise team workloads, allocate resources effectively, and monitor production schedules to ensure timely delivery.
• Monitor team performance against agreed productivity, quality, turnaround time, and SLA targets.

Preferred candidate profile

• Established managerial experience as a Journal Manager, Publishing Manager, or Production Manager, preferably within academic publishing.
• Proven experience in leading and managing journal production teams and handling multiple journal titles simultaneously.
• Strong understanding of journal publishing and production workflows, particularly Open Access publishing.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities and tight publishing deadlines.
• Strong planning, coordination, prioritisation, and follow-up skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with editors, clients, authors, and internal teams.
• Flexible to work in a 2:00 PM 10:00 PM shift, as the role requires production delivery and stakeholder coordination up to approximately 10:00 PM.