Managing Editor

As a Managing Editor, you will be responsible for the high-quality, on-time, and within-budget delivery of print and digital components for ELT courses. This involves managing components and assets from final content to publication, working across both internal and outsourced projects. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide editorial support, and ensure best practices are followed to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in the publishing process.

Must Have

• Manage delivery of high-quality, on-time, within-budget print and digital components for ELT courses.
• Track project tasks, anticipate risks, and update the team.
• Manage delivery workflow from approved content to publication.
• Create and maintain editorial documentation (acceptance criteria, style sheets, page plans, media logs, authoring templates).
• Coordinate proof circulations and digital releases, collate feedback.
• Support preparation and monitor Delivery budgets.
• Engage, brief, and manage Delivery team suppliers.
• Follow supplier engagement best practice and policy.
• Ensure contracts and POs are prepared and circulated.
• Share knowledge and suggest workflow improvements.
• Ensure Delivery team data on company systems is accurate.
• Strong organisational and editorial skills.
• Competent with widely-used office applications.
• Experience of content management systems (CMS).
• Commercial and financial awareness.
• Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload.
• Ability to deal with and resolve ambiguity.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Experience of working with company systems and data.
• Experience of supplier/freelancer management.

Good to Have

• A recognised ELT/EFL qualification and/or teaching experience.
• InCopy and/or InDesign experience.

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Short Summary of the Division

As part of the Publishing Operations function, the Delivery team is responsible for ensuring the high-quality, on-time and within budget delivery of print and digital components and materials for our ELT courses, working from final/developed content to handover of final files and go live. Working in close collaboration with crossfunctional teams, they implement Delivery best practices, workflows, tools and templates to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of the publishing process. The team is also involved in product development and post-publication maintenance and is critical to the success of our projects.

About the Role

As a Managing Editor you will be responsible for the delivery of high quality, on-time and within-budget print and digital components for our ELT courses. You will manage components and assets from final/developed content to handover of final files and go live, working across both internally resourced and fully outsourced (packaged) projects. You may also be required to provide some editorial support during product/content development and post-publication maintenance and updates.

You will work closely with colleagues in Publishing Operations and across other functions as part of a project team to ensure that titles are delivered on time, to brief and within budget.

Role Responsibilities

• Project work: Work across assigned number of projects and components (from sample materials to sign off and project closure) • Track all relevant tasks assigned to you closely across your project schedules, anticipating and mitigating any risks or delays and keeping the Project Manager and wider team fully updated on work in progress • Manage the Delivery workflow from approved content through to publication/go live (including manuscript preparation, editing and finalising artwork briefs and audio scripts, participating in copy-editing and proofreading (as required)) • Work with Publishing to create and maintain acceptance criteria (for packagers – on packaged projects), approvals forms, style sheets, page plans, media logs, archive handover documents and authoring templates, mapping documents and other key editorial documentation • Coordinate proof circulations and digital releases, collating feedback and managing queries • Provide course marketing material as required • Participate in post publication evaluation meetings to inform improvements in process • Ensure best practice is followed at all times, acting as an advocate for Delivery best practice and suggesting improvements as necessary.
• Project set up: Review and feed back to Project Managers for Delivery tasks on project schedules as part of the team-wide schedule validation process.
• Financial management: Support the preparation of Delivery budgets by providing cost estimates for Delivery tasks on assigned components and assets at project approval stages • Monitor and track the Delivery budget for your assigned components and assets, alerting the Project Manager and Editorial Manager to any concerns/risks of overspend, and raise Change Requests in a timely manner as required • Proactively look for ways to drive down Delivery costs at all times • Provide Delivery spend figures on your assigned components and assets as required.
• Freelance and supplier management: Engage, brief and proactively manage Delivery team suppliers according to the needs of the project (including reviews of supplier/freelancer work for quality control purposes) • Follow supplier engagement best practice and policy (including the use of preferred suppliers and rates where available, as well as following all contracting and PO guidelines) • Ensure contracts and POs are prepared and circulated for approval in a timely manner • Identify onboarding requirements and facilitate required systems set up (following agreed guidelines and workflow) and training
• Internal systems and processes: Share knowledge and experience with the wider Delivery team via team meetings • Actively look for and suggest ways to improve workflows, project development and delivery to promote continuous improvement • Validate and feed into department and business-wide process, systems and workflow initiatives on behalf of Delivery as requested • Ensure Delivery team data on company systems is accurate and all required detail and documents are uploaded in a timely fashion.
• Market awareness and training: Understand Macmillan Education’s publishing strategy and the company’s business goals • Keep up to date on ELT and general publishing issues, particularly ELT/EFL in an international context

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent combination of education and experience
• A genuine interest in ELT/language learning (a recognised ELT/EFL qualification and/or teaching experience would be an advantage)
• Experience of working on large-scale print and digital publishing projects, and simultaneously managing multiple components and assets through delivery
• Experience of working across multiple regions in cross functional project teams
• Strong organisational and editorial skills – an eye for detail and commitment to accuracy
• Competent with widely-used office applications (InCopy and/or InDesign an advantage, as well as experience of content management systems (CMS))
• Commercial and financial awareness – able to track budgets
• Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload
• Ability to deal with and resolve ambiguity
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team
• Experience of working with company systems and data and willingness to learn and fully engage with all such systems
• Experience of supplier/freelancer management
• A positive attitude and commitment to the aims of the department

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