Managing Editor

SPRINGER NATURE; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Managing Editor

Location(s): London - Hybrid Working Model

Closing date: 18th April 2025

About Springer Nature Group

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities - enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

About The Role

The Managing Editor will work with commissioning editors, publishers, external editors and our operational partners to organise and manage collections on behalf of key parts of the SN Journals portfolio. They will be responsible for the project management of multiple live collections and will work closely with our operational teams to provide an enhanced level of oversight for commissioned articles.

Increasing commissioned content is an essential part of our strategy to grow our Springer Nature journal portfolios and this role ensures we can do this at scale while maintaining an excellent level of quality and author service.

Responsibilities:

• Project management of live collections, including performance reporting (content flow and delivery, turnaround times, general submission/publication performance)

• Support of Commissioning Editors, Guest Editors, and Authors with queries throughout submission, peer-review, and publication processes

• Engagement with the Marketing department, Production teams, Editorial, and other internal stakeholders

• Contact point for Guest Editors throughout the collection

• Monitoring of content flow and delivery against collection submission window

• Responsible for filtering of MS and general oversight that excellent peer review is in place for commissioned content

• With the Editorial Support Advisor team contribute to robust workflow documentation to be used across all portfolios

Experience:

• Experience of journal publishing workflows, specifically around submit to accept, is highly desirable, though graduates looking to begin their publishing career will also be considered and additional training/support given

• Good understanding of open access publishing, academic journals, and publishing ethics & integrity

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including written and in-person/calls, with strong written & spoken English language

• Good administrative and organisational skills

• Has a sound understanding of the balance between operational efficiency and editorial rigour, and capability to multi-task

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree minimum

This role is based in our London King's Cross office on a hybrid working basis with 2 days a week in the office required.

Applicants should send:

• A cover letter that conveys their interest and motivation for the role and indicates salary expectations

Candidates will be considered on an on-going basis. Early applications are encouraged.