This role is a Senior Production Manager position on the reprint team, working primarily with Adult Trade and Mass Market titles. This role’s primary focus will be management of the Adult Trade and Mass Market reprint lists and reprint production team.
The Senior Production Manager will delegate reprint assignments, submit reprint orders, track orders in progress, run estimates, review quality on completed samples, and work closely with both vendors and our internal departments. They will oversee a team of two and provide support, guidance, and coverage for this team as needed. The Senior Production Manager will be expected to learn the workflows for and support the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group (MCPG) reprint team on occasion. The Senior Production Manager will also work with Reprint Production, First Print Production, and other departments to develop, trial, and document new protocols and processes as needed.
The Senior Production Manager must have a strong background in and knowledge of book production. They must be able to execute requests quickly, communicate with all levels of the company, work with all members of the department, and create clear and concise reports.
What you'll do:
- Oversee the reprint title list and the Adult Trade and Mass Market reprint lists and reprint production team
- Act as the key point of contact for specific queries regarding assigned imprints within the Adult Trade and Mass Market groups.
- Manage reprint orders of 1-color and 4-color titles (including, but not limited to gathering costs, issuing purchase orders, routing and reviewing outgoing files for corrections, tracking schedules, reviewing digital and physical proofs, and addressing quality issues)
- Prepare for and attend weekly interdepartmental meetings
- Prepare assignments for direct reports
- Create margin estimates for offset and digital reprints
- Develop and document workflows
- Code vendor invoices for payment
What you'll bring:
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Basic math
- Collaboration
- Communication (written and spoken)
- Computer – PC/Windows preferred
- Cost analysis
- Google Workspace
- Leadership (specifically in regard to people management)
- Microsoft Excel
- Organization and attention to detail
- Recognition and adjustment of priorities as needed
- Technical knowledge of offset and digital printing
- Work independently
- Work well under pressure
Ideal Experience:
- 7+ years production experience
- Experience with 1-color and 4-color book production
- Office experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Please include a cover letter with your application to be considered for this position.
This role will have an annual salary of $85,000 - $95,000.
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
