Publisher - Computer Science

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Taylor & Francis Group produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.

We currently have an exciting vacancy for a Publisher on the CRC Press Computer Science list. The role involves the proactive commissioning of a wide range of books in Computer Science, managing the frontlist program of new manuscripts for production, and managing editors. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate who can hit the ground running and meet demanding signings and manuscript handover targets for a period of twelve months combined with a management role.

The successful applicant should possess strong commercial awareness, excellent networking skills and the ability to work with internal departments such as production, marketing, rights, and sales to lead the Computer Science list and ensure revenue goals are met.

What you’ll be doing:

• Meeting annual commissioning and revenue goals for the Computer Science list
• Managing editors to ensure financial targets are met
• Identifying market needs and recruiting authors to write books that meet these needs
• Evaluating book proposals and soliciting peer review
• Proposing suitable projects to the senior publisher, including compiling internal proposal documents and negotiating contract terms with authors
• Working closely with authors, and editorial, production, marketing, and sales colleagues to ensure that goals are met
  
  

What we're looking for:

• A confident self-starter who can work quickly and independently, while liaising effectively with team members globally.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, be highly organized, detail-oriented, and have a financial focus and ability to budget and analyse financial data, as well as the ability to prioritise a varied workload under pressure.
• Strong word processing, spreadsheet, and database skills.
• Previous experience of book commissioning in academic publishing and familiarity with the academic book publishing process
• Some management experience
  
  

What we're offering in return:

• Salary: $95,354 per year
• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
• Paid sick time
• 15 days paid annual leave per year plus an extra paid day off for your birthday
• 3 additional discretionary days for holiday season
• Up to 4 weeks of paid parental leave
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 4 volunteer days per year
• 401(k) employer match
• Seasonal social and charitable events

What you should know:

• Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis, and we will be interviewing alongside advertising. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.
• Have the right to live and work in the United States

• Location: The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our offices in either Philadelphia PA, New York NY, or Boca Raton FL to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations to collaborate as required. Time spent in the office is likely to range from 10%-80% of working hours with an expectation for a minimum of 2 days per week spent working from an office.
  
  

  • Internal candidates will be eligible to continue their current working arrangements.
    
    

• Closing Date for applications: 22 January 2025

Work/life balance:

At Taylor & Francis we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. You will be joining a thriving business, working alongside an exceptional group of people. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.

Training And Professional Development:

We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Interview process:

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk

Being ‘you’ at Taylor and Francis:

Here at Taylor & Francis, we know that many times the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can feel discouraged about applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. We encourage you to apply if you're excited about working for us and have some of the skills or experience we're looking for. We believe in the notion that many skills and experiences are transferrable, and you could be just what we need! Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly believe in the value of diversity of people and thought. We strive to foster a supportive and inclusive environment where our colleagues can learn, develop, and succeed, all while feeling comfortable with being their true self. We embrace all walks of life regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, or any other protected characteristic under local law.

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-&-francis-group/life/79e0c27c-afdf-4bbb-84e6-5f8ed5e10bb8/