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Closing date: 3rd February 2025Salary: £30,000 per annum, dependent on skills and experienceLocation: We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.&nbsp;Do you want to help shape the future of academic publishing?We are looking for a new Journal Manager, to support external clients (journal editors, Society and editorial office staff) by ensuring production processes and outputs match client needs, troubleshooting, advising on best practices and reporting on production performance as required. You will collaborate with clients and suppliers by proposing, agreeing and managing changes in production processes and requirements as needs evolve, and where such changes improve the quality, efficiency, and standardisation of work. Please note that we have both permanent and fixed term positions available for this role.&nbsp;Responsibilities<ul><li>Consult with clients on options for all aspects of the production process, making recommendations in line with business goals to ensure strong, sustainable processes that match client needs and meet client expectations, and highlighting risks associated with customised requirements.</li><li>Ensure updates to client requirements are promptly communicated to the relevant teams and accurately documented, to support effective delivery of content and services to agreed standards.</li><li>Act as the point of contact for queries and feedback received from journals clients, responding in a timely and professional manner to resolve varied issues, provide analysis, and improve production performance, and representing OUP’s production services in conference calls and face-to-face meetings with clients.</li><li>As required, provide regular or ad hoc reports to clients accurately to an agreed timeline, demonstrating production performance against agreed goals, providing contextual information and analysis, and where appropriate making recommendations to improve processes and performance.</li><li>Proactively recommend updates or changes to the production process relevant to the client and internal stakeholders, soliciting feedback or decisions where required, to support department and business goals of ensuring an outstanding experience for customers and clients during the production process.</li><li>Maintain accurate journal-level documentation (style guides, process instructions, feedback records).</li><li>Manage delivery of journal-level changes to processes or requirements, including working with internal teams and external suppliers to co-ordinate implementation.</li><li>Support external editors in selecting journal issue line-ups, including providing accurately reports of available articles, to ensure the timely publication of journal issues.</li></ul>&nbsp;Knowledge, skills and experienceEssential<ul><li>Experience in relationship management in a professional environment</li><li>Excellent communication skills</li><li>Superior negotiation and influencing skills</li><li>Ability to comprehend and communicate complex information</li><li>Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and work to tight deadlines</li><li>Ability to manage contractors or 3rd-party suppliers</li><li>Ability to work in a team</li><li>Ability to learn quickly and work flexibly with varied software</li><li>Good organisational skills</li><li>Good IT skills</li></ul>Desirable<ul><li>Experience in a publishing environment</li><li>Experience in a production environment</li><li>Excellent presentation skills</li><li>Experience in client account management</li></ul>&nbsp;BenefitsWe care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.&nbsp;We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.&nbsp;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.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Oxford University Press

Journal manager, Production

Closing date: 27th January 2025Salary: £30,500 - £35,800 per annumLocation: OxfordContract: The role is a&nbsp;full-time permanent position.Reporting to: The role reports to the Head of Rights, Academic.&nbsp;Are you experienced with digital licensing and searching for your next role in publishing rights?We are looking for a Rights Manager to join our thriving Rights team at Bloomsbury to sell translation and digital licences to the Bloomsbury Academic &amp; Professional and selected Special Interest imprints.&nbsp;This would suit a Rights Manager or a Rights Executive who has good experience of selling and is looking for a new challenge.Three-time winner of the Bookseller Academic, Educational &amp; Professional Publisher of the Year Award, Bloomsbury’s Academic &amp; Professional Division publishes approximately 3,000 new titles a year. Established in 2008, the division has grown organically and through acquisition and publishes across the humanities and social sciences, from higher education through to professional practice. The successful candidate will play an important role in this division, in the rights team and in the company.&nbsp;Responsibilities<ul><li>Sell translation and digital rights to an agreed strategy (translation territories will depend on the successful candidate)</li><li>Initiate and develop business relationships with new and existing customers to retain and grow business</li><li>Contribute to acquisition and P&amp;L performance</li><li>Draw up contracts and liaise with finance over invoicing&nbsp;</li><li>Attend book fairs and sales trips as required</li></ul>&nbsp;Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Rights and digital licensing experience working in a similar role&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Confidence in communicating and negotiating</li><li>Team player</li><li>Excellent organisational skills</li><li>Word, Excel, databases (Biblio preferred)</li></ul>&nbsp;Additional informationThe role is based at&nbsp;our Oxford office, Kemp House, Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill,&nbsp;Oxford,&nbsp;OX2 9PH on a hybrid-working pattern of two days office-based / three days home-based (or fully office based if preferred).&nbsp;Allocated office days for this role are: Tuesday and Thursday.Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the 'Apply' button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 27th January 2025.&nbsp;Please add to your document subject line – “Rights Manager”.&nbsp;Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications.Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Head Office - London

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing UK: Bedford Square Office

Rights manager, Academic & Professional

2 Opportunities in Oxford, UK