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Join the world's largest university press as a Publisher, where you'll manage and develop medical society owned journals, ensuring excellence in publishing and enhancing partnerships with academic communities.

Responsibilities: Oversee a portfolio of journals, manage contracts and partnerships, contribute to RFPs, and collaborate with various teams to achieve journal and departmental targets, including revenue and quality outcomes.

Skills: Experience in publishing, especially academic journals, along with strong communication, persuasive negotiation, analytical forecasting, and entrepreneurial skills are required.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include a solid understanding of editorial and production processes in academic publishing and previous experience in relevant roles.

Location: This position is fully remote, based in the United States with no additional travel required.

Compensation: $67844 - $96000 / Annually

We are the world’s largest university press. That means we serve the academic community as no other publisher can. We work in partnership with institutions and learned societies to bring a world of knowledge to the fingertips of students and researchers worldwide.

The goal is impact. Together with our academic communities, we curate and seamlessly connect together the ideas that push their fields forward, so they can learn from them, add to them, and continue a virtuous cycle of scholarship.

And because we are a part of the academic community and guided in everything we do by our mission, we re-invest in our people, our publishing, and the world-leading research institution of which we are part.

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ABOUT THE ROLE

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES/KEY RESULT AREAS 

• Manage and develop a portfolio of medical society owned journals to a degree of excellence that enhances OUP’s standing in the learned society and publishing landscape. 
• Renew contracts for medical society owned journals as they come up for renewal.
• Contribute to the response to RFPs for new potential high quality society journals in subject areas identified for content growth.
• - With data driven analysis
• - High quality written proposals
• - Persuasive presentations
• - Commercially intelligent financial arrangements
• - In full agreement with OUP legal and compliance requirements
• - In accordance with OUPs risk appetite and strategic priorities 
• Work with the Publishing Director to negotiate successful, consistent contractual terms with society partners that align with OUP strategic priorities and risk appetite, ensuring full compliance with approval processes for journals. 
• Ensure adherence to contractual terms for all journals in your portfolio.
• Present for approval, and launch new open access journals with society partners, after undertaking market research and detailed financial modelling.
• Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups (especially production, marketing, digital) to deliver an excellent service for society partners. 
• Manage a list of journals to ensure journal, departmental, and divisional targets (including revenue, quality, and profitability) are achieved. Collaborate with Editors and journal owners to publish high quality content in maximum suitable volume to increase market share of articles. 
• Work with finance and operations colleagues to ensure maximum long and short term profitability of the journal list, including management of costs. Initiate remedial actions where necessary. 
• Lead the transition process for newly acquired titles in your area of expertise ensuring a methodological approach, coordination with other departments, including the transitions team, and keeping society partners fully informed on what to expect at each stage. 
• Create and present Journals Editorial Development plans to societies and editorial boards as appropriate. Provide relevant data to inform editorial decision making 
• Roll out OUP journal policies across the portfolio 
• Assist with implementation of projects that scale across the journals program.

ABOUT YOU 

• Publishing or transferable professional experience 
• Understanding of academic journals publishing, including editorial processes, production processes, marketing, industry trends, competitors, and technology.
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to influence, persuade, and negotiate with both internal and external parties.
• Analytical and forecasting ability to review trends and align development appropriately.
• Entrepreneurial skills

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 10 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect into health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.

We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.

Position Location: This role can be done remotely in the United States.

GJC Level: I6 (for internal purposes only)

Salary: $67,844 - $96,000 dependent on skills and experience