Job Description
Publisher
Location:
Oxford, GBR
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About The Role
The Publisher is responsible for the maintenance and development of a list of health science journals across all business models and ownership types. This role involves continuously and proactively evaluating the performance of the program as it relates to Wiley and department objectives. This role will provisionally cover mainly high-profile portfolios with many partner journals in nursing plus other related fields.
The Publisher works across internal and external stakeholders to meet and exceed objectives regarding content growth, including submissions, acceptances, and published articles.
How You Will Make An Impact
- Content Growth: Meet and exceed objectives regarding content growth, including submissions, acceptances, and published articles. Present journal development performance and strategic plans to editors and society partners to negotiate with partners and drive the right behaviors.
- Industry Trends: Understand industry trends, how they relate to Wiley and the portfolio, and communicate the potential implications and opportunities to stakeholders. Build and communicate a business case to gain support and resource/investment for publishing development ideas.
- Editor Management: Manage editor performance independently and meet regularly with journal editors to review and report performance. Develop a deep network of contacts within the relevant field and engage consistently to gain insight and ideas and seize opportunities that may present a competitive advantage.
- Reporting: Organize, maintain, and report on activities to the Director and Senior Director in a timely manner.
- Publishing Partner Relationships: Manage publishing partner relationships through contractual lifecycles, including the renewal of partner contracts. Engage with external partners to ensure that our open access strategy is understood and mutual success is achieved through strategic alignment, as measured by various metrics.
- Collaboration: Contribute to the delivery of external reporting, end-to-end publishing services, from submission through to publication, and title-level business growth through collaboration with internal colleagues across multiple publishing units, including but not limited to author support, journal editor management, and corporate sales.
What We Look For
- Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience.
- High degree of awareness of trends in publishing; uses experience and judgement to maximize potential in own program.
- Understands major industry trends and their impact; ability to effectively communicate them.
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to work across departments to build collaborative and highly productive relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships in a publishing context that get results.
- Ability to independently manage performance of external EiCs/ ed boards, including complex relationships, e.g. societies.
- Highly organized and able to work on a complex, high value/high potential list of society and proprietary and hybrid (editorial model) journals.
- Solves problems independently, driving at solutions using judgement and experience.
- Knows how to get buy-in from Editors and Societies for changes required to align own titles with strategic priorities.
- Ability to create impactful and insightful proposals to gain support and buy in for proposed solutions.
- Serve as a mentor and thought leader for the team.
- Some travel required.
About Wiley
Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they work to solve the world's most important challenges. We are advocates of advancement, empowering knowledge-seekers to transform today's biggest obstacles into tomorrow's brightest opportunities.
With over 200 years of experience in publishing, we continue to evolve knowledge seekers' steps into strides, illuminating their path forward to personal, educational, and professional success at every stage. Around the globe, we break down barriers for innovators, empowering them to advance discoveries in their fields, adapt their workforces, and shape minds.
Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact
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We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.
We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the United Kingdom, Canada or USA. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.
Salary Range
38,600 GBP to 55,267 GBP
