Managing Editor
Job Summary
Job Description
- Project management of live collections
- Support for commissioning editors, guest editors, and authors
- Engagement with internal stakeholders
- Monitoring of content flow and delivery
- Oversight of peer review for commissioned content
- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM discipline
- Experience in publishing or science research
- Understanding of the research publishing landscape
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to adapt to change and work under pressure
- Familiarity with the research process and scientific community
- Direct experience managing a journal or journal portfolio
- Strong data analysis and reporting skills
- Creative mindset and ability to bring new approaches
- Strategic and commercial mindset
3 skills required
Job Details
Locations: Berlin – Heidelberg hybrid working model
Deadline: 23th of July 2025
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About the Role
The Springer Nature Journals Group aims to support researchers in communicating and advancing discovery for a better world. We do this by providing a trusted environment in which researchers can quickly, easily and transparently share their discoveries, data and research stories.
The Collections Management and Acquisition Team is a division within the Publishing Performance & Intelligence group providing expertise and dedicated resources to support the growth of commissioned content across the SN Journal portfolio.
The Managing Editor will work with commissioning editors, publishers, external editors and our operational partners to organise and manage collections on behalf of key parts of the SN Journals portfolio. They will be responsible for the project management of multiple live collections and will work closely with our operational teams to provide an enhanced level of oversight for commissioned articles.
Increasing commissioned content is an essential part of our strategy to grow our Springer Nature journal portfolios and this role ensures we can do this at scale while maintaining an excellent level of quality and author service.
Role Responsibilities:
Project management of live collections, including performance reporting (content flow and delivery, turnaround times, general submission/publication performance)
Support of Commissioning Editors, Guest Editors, and Authors with queries throughout submission, peer-review, and publication processes
Engagement with the Marketing department, Production teams, Editorial, and other internal stakeholders
Contact point for Guest Editors throughout the collection
Monitoring of content flow and delivery against collection submission window
Responsible for filtering of MS and general oversight that excellent peer review is in place for commissioned content
With the Editorial Support Advisor team contribute to robust workflow documentation to be used across all portfolios
Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a STEM discipline with a keen interest in Science
Experience in the publishing industry or science research
Familiarity with the Research Process and the Scientific community
An excellent understanding of the research publishing landscape and how journals and journal publishers serve the research community, particularly Open Access journals
Direct experience of managing a journal or journal portfolio is desirable
Strong data analysis and reporting skills – ability to directly query data is desirable
Practical awareness of the importance and key aspects of research ethics
Excellent presentational skills
Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders
A creative mindset and the ability to bring energy, ideas and new approaches
A strategic and commercial mindset, with experience in developing and implementing plans
Ability to adapt quickly to change, juggle a varied workload under pressure and work quickly and efficiently on own initiative as well as part of a team
At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent. Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work here https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/taking-responsibility/diversity-equity-inclusion
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