Executive Editor – FTC 14 Months

The publishing division of a highly successful membership organisation based in Hertfordshire is looking to recruit a motivated Executive Editor to join their journals team for a fixed contract or around 14 months. This role is a fabulous opportunity for an experienced editor with line management experience, looking for a rewarding and interesting new challenge.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Manage the Journal Editorial team effectively, ensuring that titles are reviewed, produced and published to agreed quality, budget and schedule. 
• Working with the Managing Editors, responsible for the development of a number of titles in the journal portfolio.
• Raise the product profiles through improvement of impact factors and other measures of visibility.
• Work very closely with the marketing department to raise the visibility of the journal.
• Responsible for the succession and recruitment of the Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members.
• Liaise with external editors, authors and referees to identify new commissioning opportunities.
• Look for new opportunities to launch new products and to develop journal launches.
• Refocus and redirect the brand as appropriate to meet evolving customer and commercial needs.
• Contribute to the strategy for the overall Academic Publishing programme

The successful person will have:

• Educated to degree level (ideally in a scientific or engineering discipline)
• Proven experience managing a list of STM journals
• Excellent people management skills and proven experience of line management and able to coach, mentor and inspire staff
• Strong commissioning ability/potential with a commitment to developing this side of the business
• The ability to manage multiple projects
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and a high degree of literacy and numeracy, plus experience of using different IT packages within a working environment.
• Target-driven and strong communications skills
• Willingness to travel
• The ability to interact intelligently and persuasively with authors, referees and external editors

This role carries a generous salary and benefits package. For further details of this excellent role please forward your CV with a short covering letter outlining your interest and salary expectations.