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Join the world's largest university press as a Publisher in our Journals Editorial team, where you'll manage society journals in social sciences and humanities and drive excellence for OUP and its partners.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include managing a portfolio of journals, negotiating contracts, collaborating with various departments, achieving revenue and quality targets, and overseeing the transition of newly acquired titles.

Skills: Candidates should possess publishing or relevant professional experience, strong communication and negotiation skills, analytical ability, and excellent organizational skills.

Qualifications: Understanding of academic publishing workflows and industry trends is preferred, along with a proven ability to manage client relationships.

Location: This position can be performed remotely in the United States or in a hybrid model from either New York, NY or Cary, NC.

Compensation: $67844 - $96000 / Annually

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ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Publisher in our Journals Editorial team, you will manage and develop a portfolio of society journals in the social sciences and humanities to a degree of excellence that enhances OUP’s standing in the learned society and publishing landscape. You will renew society contracts with maximum financial contribution to OUP and lead pre-emptive renewals and responses to RFPs to retain contracts for society-owned journals including developing the business plans for approval and writing and presenting detailed proposals, in liaison with the Publishing Director.

Other duties will include:

• Work with the Publishing Director to negotiate successful, consistent contractual terms with society partners that align with OUP strategic priorities and risk appetite, ensuring full compliance with approval processes.
• Ensure adherence to contractual terms for all journals in your portfolio.
• Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups (especially production, marketing, digital) to deliver an excellent service for society partners.
• Manage a list of journals to ensure journal, departmental, and divisional targets (including revenue, quality, and profitability) are achieved. Collaborate with Editors and journal owners to publish high quality content in maximum suitable volume to increase market share of articles.
• Work with finance and operations colleagues to ensure maximum long- and short-term profitability of the journal list, including management of costs. Initiate remedial actions and negotiations where necessary.
• Lead the transition process for select newly acquired titles ensuring a methodological approach, using project management software to monitor progress and identify risks and delays, collaborating with other departments, and organizing meetings and communications to keep society clients fully informed and engaged in decision making.
• Advocate for adoption of best practices through engagement with Society and Editorial teams, providing expertise and guidance in support of decision making.
• Create and present Editorial Development plans to societies and editorial boards as appropriate. Provide relevant data to inform editorial decision making.
• Roll out OUP journal policies across the portfolio.

Some travel each year within North America will be required.

ABOUT YOU

• Publishing or transferable professional experience
• Experience managing a client list
• Understanding of academic publishing, including editorial processes, production processes, marketing, industry trends, systems, competitors, and technology.
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to influence, persuade, and negotiate with both internal and external parties.
• Analytical and forecasting ability to review trends and align development appropriately.
• Strong organization and prioritization skills
• Entrepreneurial skill

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.

Position Location: This role can be hybrid, based out of New York, NY or Cary, NC (2 days a week in office) or remote in the United States.

GJC Level: I6 (for internal purposes only)

Salary: $67,844 - $96,000 dependent on skills and experience

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.