Managing Editor

Job location: Hybrid Hoboken New Jersey

Company: Wiley

Role: Managing Editor

About the role:

The Managing Editor is responsible for the successful delivery of projects for a particular product line, from contract signing until delivery of final product. This includes managing costs, schedules, and fiscal output budgets, keeping stakeholders informed of any variance, maintaining high-level contact with the author/editor throughout the project life cycle, and ensuring the quality of the final product(s).

The Managing Editor is accountable for, but does not actually carry out, the functions carried out by the Content Ops department.

How you will make an impact:

• Working with Editorial to ensure correct data in system from contracting stage through the product life cycle and establishing schedule.
• Maintaining high level contact with author throughout the content creation phase, providing information about upcoming workflow stages and setting expectations upfront about author responsibilities and the content development and production processes; receives delivery of content from the author.
• Tracking the progress of projects through the stages of the end-to-end content process; ensuring the schedule of each component is up-to-date and informing stakeholders of any variance against FY targets.
• Working with the Ops teams to ensure projects requirements are clearly outlined upfront and that any issues are dealt with promptly to keep projects on track.
• Ensuring that any product-specific guidelines are enforced, and quality of final product is appropriate to the market, remediating any escalated issues.
  
  

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Experience of book and other publishing processes, especially digital.
• Project management skills.
• Track record of proposing, and delivering against, challenging targets.
• Excellent, confident communication skills
• Ability to forge strong relationships both internally and externally, and to build consensus.
• Ability to assimilate and work comfortably with a wide range of business systems.
• Understanding of platforms upon which products and services operate.
• Understands the importance of data flow, data integrity, and business process efficiency, as well as the potential role technology could play to improve or enhance them.
• Critical thinker, proven ability to identify and act on opportunities and to solve problems.
• Sets goals and develops strategies and plans for meeting them.
• Can break down complex problems/tasks into manageable parts and allocates own time efficiently.
• Processes paperwork and other information in a timely manner.
• Demonstrates completeness and attention to detail.
• Consciously works to build rapport through understanding, and adapting own personal style to the attitude, interests, need, and perspectives of others.
• Writes clear, well-organized reports and memos using appropriate style, grammar, and tone. Informs people of decisions, changes, and other relevant information on a timely basis.
• Adapts well to changes at work.
• Capitalizes on own strengths and actively pursues and takes responsibility for development opportunities.
• Ability to manage own workload with some supervision.
• Excellent command of English, including spelling, grammar, and usage.
• Understands the various components and timing of the end-to-end content process: content acquisition, content development, content production, content delivery.
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office suite of applications, and e-mail.
  
  

About Wiley:

Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they work to solve the world's most important challenges. We are advocates of advancement, empowering knowledge-seekers to transform today's biggest obstacles into tomorrow's brightest opportunities.

With over 200 years of experience in publishing, we continue to evolve knowledge seekers' steps into strides, illuminating their path forward to personal, educational, and professional success at every stage. Around the globe, we break down barriers for innovators, empowering them to advance discoveries in their fields, adapt their workforces, and shape minds.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees, for example we offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the UK, Canada or USA. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies. Wiley proactively displays target base pay range for UK, Canada and USA based roles.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.