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Join Macmillan Publishers as an Associate Director of Production, where you will lead a production team and oversee the manufacturing activities for key imprints, ensuring high-quality standards and efficient workflows.

Responsibilities: Manage a medium-sized title list and coach the production team in all production aspects, ensuring compliance with corporate workflows and quality standards.

Skills: Strong leadership and organizational skills, ability to prioritize and adapt to changes, working knowledge of Biblio and Google platform preferred.

Qualifications: At least 15 years of book production experience with excellent knowledge of all facets of book production; experience in people management is a plus.

Location: New York, New York, United States

Compensation: $100000 - $110000 / Annually

The Associate Director, Production manages a production team for the Celadon, Flatiron, and Holt imprints. Overseeing first print production/manufacturing activities for the group, while coaching team through workflows. Managing a title list of their own. Liaison to managing editorial, design, and art.

What you'll do:

• Managing a Title List: managing a medium sized list that includes some priority titles through the production/manufacturing process.
• Management – supervising and coaching the production team in all aspects of production and manufacturing including, but not limited to: scheduling, prepress, estimating, printing and binding for text & components. Manages some of the seasonal launch tasks as pertains to the team.
• Maintains quality, and coaches team, to manage vendors and review projects with an eye to high quality standards.
• Ensures Production Managers manage their projects in compliance to corporate workflows and procedures, including entering project data into systems (Biblio and RSuite), contracting with vendors using approved scales, archiving and closing out projects.
• Collaboration with Internal Stakeholders: Provides editorial with options for product delivery. Investigates manufacturing options for print materials (books, media, components, etc.)
• Works with Production Management team to keep projects on track in terms of schedule, budget, quality, vendor assignments.
• Attends weekly status meetings with managing editorial, production editorial, design, and art to track title progress.
• Coordinates with internal customers about project details and departments protocols. Helps teams set priorities
• Vendor Management: Maintain strong relationships with established vendors. Negotiates prices for non-contract projects and ensures vendors are confirming to Macmillan contracts. Evaluates vendor performance and oversees quality control reviews, issues and resolutions.

What you'll bring:

• Ability to prioritize. Works collaboratively with others in a professional manner. Able to adapt to changes, delays and unexpected events. Anticipates, identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner.
• Working knowledge of Biblio a plus.
• Knowledge of the Google platform a plus.

Ideal Experience:

• 15 years of book production experience.
• Excellent knowledge of all facets of book production and manufacturing.
• Highly organized and detail minded.
• Understanding of overall business of publishing and how production issues affect the success of a publishing company. Experience in people management a plus.

This role will have an annual salary of $100,000 -$110,000.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.