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OUP is seeking a Senior Publisher for journals to manage a portfolio of medical society contracts, enhancing the organization's standing in the academic publishing landscape.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include managing medical journal contracts, developing business plans, negotiating terms, ensuring compliance, and collaborating with other departments for optimal service delivery.

Skills: Candidates should have significant publishing experience, a strong understanding of academic publishing, excellent communication and negotiation skills, and analytical capabilities.

Qualifications: A deep knowledge of editorial and production processes in publishing, along with entrepreneurial skills and the ability to forecast and align development trends, is preferred.

Location: This role can be done remotely from the United States, with flexibility in working hours supported by technology.

Compensation: $67844 - $120000 / Annually

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ABOUT THE ROLE

Manage and develop a high value portfolio of medical society contracts to a degree of excellence that enhances OUP’s standing in the learned society and publishing landscape.

• Renew medical society contracts with maximum financial contribution to OUP. Lead pre-emptive renewals and responses to RFPs to retain contracts for high quality society-owned medical journals including developing the business plans for approval and writing and presenting detailed proposals, in liaison with the Publishing Director.

• Lead or contribute to the response to RFPs for new potential high value society business in medical subject areas identified for content growth.

- With data driven analysis

- High quality written proposals

- Persuasive presentations

- Commercially intelligent financial arrangements

- In full agreement with OUP legal and compliance requirements

- In accordance with OUPs risk appetite and strategic priorities.

• 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 the portfolio.

• Present for approval, and launch new open access journals with medical society partners, after undertaking necessary qualitative research and detailed financial modelling.

• Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups (especially production, marketing, digital) to deliver an excellent service for society partners.

• Manage a list of medical 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 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 newly acquired titles in your area of expertise ensuring a methodological approach, coordination with other departments, including the transitions team, and keeping society clients fully informed on what to expect at each stage.

• Create and present Editorial Development plans to societies and editorial boards as appropriate. Provide relevant data to inform editorial decision making

• Help develop and roll out OUP journal policies across the portfolio.

• Work with the Publishing Director and/or Operations Director to identify and implement priority projects that scale across the journals program.

ABOUT YOU

• Significant publishing or transferable professional experience

• Strong 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.

• Entrepreneurial skills

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days of vacation time that rises with service, 8 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 remote in the United States. 

GJC Level: I6 (for internal purposes only) 

Salary: $67,844-$120,000 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.