Manager, Editorial Services

Manager, Editorial Services

About the Role

As our new Manager for Editorial Services, you will manage the team responsible for working with core suppliers, freelancers, and production staff to ensure copyediting, proofreading, indexing, and related tasks meet business requirements. The initial scope of this role includes Academic books, journals, and database content and may expand to other divisions.

Duties will include:

1. Owning OUP’s requirements for pre-editing, copyediting, proofreading, indexing, and related tasks, and implementation with suppliers, production staff, and freelancers.
2. Collaborating with production, design, digital, editorial, and other business areas as needed to ensure editorial services requirements and implementation align with business needs.
3. Identifying cost savings opportunities related to editorial services and developing testing and adoption plans as needed.
4. Developing and executing initiatives in support of broad OUP goals related to editorial services, including development of copyediting standards and quality metrics, leading implementation of new editorial technologies and processes at core suppliers, and ensuring supplier AI solutions are compliant with OUP policies.
5. Managing the editorial freelance pool working on the production of OUP’s content and developing documentation and tools to promote cost-effective use of freelance editorial staff in compliance with OUP’s policies.
6. Owning and taking forward updates to the OUP Freelancer Directory platform as required.
7. Overseeing development of training programs for OUP production and supplier staff to ensure core editorial competency is maintained. Advising production staff on copyediting, indexing, proofreading, and related issues.
8. Managing editorial services lead positions.
9. In coordination with production teams, responsible for resolving all escalations related to editorial services raised by editors, authors, or other stakeholders. Reviewing author satisfaction data to continuously improve OUP’s editorial service offering.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

• Expert knowledge of copyediting, proofreading, indexing, and related tasks and of the supplier and freelance markets related to these areas
• Excellent technical knowledge of industry-standard copyediting processes, production workflows, and editorial tools
• Strong communication and decision-making skills
• Expert knowledge of editorial style manuals and market needs for editorial quality
• Line management skill and experience is desirable
• Ability to plan and lead projects

Benefits

We 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. 

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. 

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

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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.