Manager, Editorial Job Description
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Manager, Editorial Job Description
- Working alongside the Reversioning Production Management team, and the Reversioning Managers, you will help make talent suggestions and negotiations on rates and schedules, ensuring maximum value from the voice over, facilities and customisation budgets
- May prepare project reports for management, clients, or others
- Trafficking copy, production and proofreading projects within the copy team
- Managing and tracking copy projects while partnering closely with the copy chief, creative director and creative/production managers to ensure strategic alignment
- Developing and maintaining the editorial calendar and ensuring work is delivered on time
- Schedule/assign resources to maintain a balanced workload
- Reviewing and revising content created by writers to maintain consistency with communications standards and style guides, and corporate goals for simplified member communications
- Motivating, leading and managing a team of Editorial Rights Assistants located globally
- Implementing new policies and processes for rights acquisition
- Managing workflows for tracking and storing rights documents
- Series 7 and 66 licenses or willingness to earn qualifications upon hire
- Evidence of strategic thinking ability
- College degree with 4+ years of work experience
- Ability to manage high volume of projects and meet deadlines
- Knowledge of Creative development process helpful
- Knowledge of TV and video production process helpful
Manager, Editorial Job Description
- Develop and monitor project budget, in tandem with Director, create vendor contracts, and process payments
- Function as liaison between Editorial and Production, Design, Technology, Manufacturing, and Finance departments
- Define, oversee, and manage the digital image process and workflow, including requirement definition, selections, permissions, conversion, production, and delivery for implementation on all web products
- Lead multiple medium to large size projects from inception to completion
- Create copy for template-based requests (invitations, POS signs)
- Stakeholder management & communication- Works across Elsevier strategy, product, technology, operations and editorial businesses to build and nurture relationships that enable the group to engage the customer throughout the value chain
- Data-driven - A great head for figures whether scrutinising financial forecasts, analytics data, marketing plans or API calls
- Maintain project management overview, working with Acquisitions Editor(s), book contributors, authors and editors, and production colleagues, raising red flags as required and collaborating on problem solving with the AE/Publisher as required
- Track and manage a large number of projects at the same time
- Ensure each stage of project life cycle including delivery of author/contributor/editor instructions and editor/ contributor payments, material from contributors and marketing questionnaires are delivered in a timely fashion
- Excellent English Language writing skills for script editing, programme proposals and treatments
- Be good under pressure, and managing high volumes and tight deadlines, working outside of office hours if necessary to ensure delivery
- Must have a “customer focus” in working with the team to conceptualize marketable product
- Strong numeracy skills, including and understanding of statistics
- Strong technical competency and computer skills coupled with a good knowledge and utilization of Microsoft Excel
- Work with Chief Marketing Officer to develop branding and strategic marketing concepts related to copy (website, emails, retail signs/collateral, press releases )
Manager, Editorial Job Description
- Ensure all content is on-brand, consistent in terms of style, quality, and tone of voice and optimized for search and discovery
- Keep at the forefront of new channel capabilities and trends
- Responsible for assigning and managing writing and editing projects across all media channels including digital, social and traditional media, email, branded content, websites, print ads, mobile, and help manage priorities to ensure all work is completed on time
- Lead formal and informal internal and cross-functional critiques
- Using standard reporting practices communicate progress with all titles to Delivery Content Manager/AE/Publishers as processes dictate
- Works with scientists to draft manuscripts and abstracts suitable for publication
- Serves as an important mentor in teaching scientists how to write
- Helps write and edit grant applications and scientific reports
- Coordinate financial and marketing issues with journal publisher and the editor-in-chief
- Works with staff to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and clarify project goals
- Strategic thinking to help transform business strategy into compelling consumer messages
- Fluency in German and English, both orally and written
- Proactive, high level of initiative and the confidence to act
- Strong organisational skills, working with tight deadlines
- Minimum BA/BS in a Project Management, Business Management, Computer Science, Logistics, or education-related discipline
- Familiarity with educational publishing is a plus
Manager, Editorial Job Description
- Ensure that published guidelines and collateral materials are developed with a high level of quality regarding organization, structure, clarity, accuracy, format, style and consistency
- Plan, facilitate and lead program launch meetings and bi-weekly status meetings, manage program component list, and provide weekly project status reports to the project team
- Serve as a point of contact and resource to less experience members of the team
- Reviewing creative briefs, thinking your way through them, and refining your copy through revisions, big and small changes, and shifts in marketing needs
- Presenting your copy for review with creative and marketing teams
- Equal mix of collaborating (with marketing managers and graphic designers) and working independently to manage your own time and projects
- On-site, approximately 40 hours per week in our midtown Manhattan office
- Reports to Senior Editorial Manager
- Lead the Manuscript Assistant team
- Lead the Publishing Assistant team
- Able to present program plans, including the marketing story, finished products to senior management, sales, and customers
- Working knowledge and understanding of modern languages (French, German, Spanish, or Italian)
- Demonstrated ability to work with large volumes of data without compromising accuracy or efficiency
- Proficiency in using the Microsoft applications suite
- Experience working with content management systems and digital assets databases
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Smartsheet, on Mac
Manager, Editorial Job Description
- Work with stakeholders to measure KPI’s, set benchmarks, and assist in determining optimal pricing and bundling strategies
- Write reports on the project for key stakeholders including milestone reporting, bi-weekly and monthly updates
- Be responsible in a variety of projects, ensuring quality and timeliness of editorial production
- Editorial Skill and Published Products
- Meet (virtually and in person) with the various operating countries (OpCo s) content teams and other stakeholders (Product, Marketplace, Legal, GTM, Analytics) to understand the company goals and how the content group fits in
- Immerse yourself in competitors’ products and relevant, snackable, content providers
- Own and publish monthly internal email focused on developments and insights on Content and Technology
- Spot editorial and content trends and respond to them in a timely manner
- Establish, track, and report progress on content metrics and KPIs for leadership and the entire company
- Assigns and edits copy for projects
- Experience training and developing staff, and delivering constructive feedback
- Experience creating strong online content
- An expert knowledge of SEO
- Ability to adapt to multiple editorial styles depending on the client
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment within an open office
- Minimum 3-5 years of work experience in communications