Production Controller - London, United Kingdom - Bonnier Books

Bonnier Books

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job title:
Production Controller**
Reports to: Production Manager

Location:
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London**
Working pattern:Flexible home working up to three days per week**
Department:Trade Production**
Salary: £29,000 per annum

General Summary

Bonnier Books UK has an exciting opening for a production controller to work across its varied imprints on a wide list of colour and mono titles.

This will include working on new titles, reprints and co-editions.

We are looking for an organised and proactive individual who wants to build on their existing experience and who can deliver titles on schedule, within budget and to the required standards of quality.

You will be happy to liaise directly with the creative teams for files and approvals and keen to build your relationships with global printers.

This role is an opportunity to work across a wide variety of titles, from board books and pop ups to licensed product and mono fiction.

Key responsibilities

Responsible for controlling a list of front & backlist titles, plus coedition printings
Opportunity to cost off scale formats where required, and to negotiate directly with established printer base
Experience of Biblio is preferred but not essential as the role involves maintaining and updating biblio schedules, specifications and costs, ensuring accuracy of records
Raising purchase orders, reconciling and approving invoices
Arranging freight as required from FE and EU printers. Supplying packing and shipping information, obtaining delivery details and managing direct deliveries
Managing and checking coedition and frontlist files, using our online portal for plotter checking and corrections stage of the process
Closely monitoring schedules and keeping all coeditions on track to meet schedule dates
Working with the creative team on startups for new titles.
Organising colour proofing for new titles with our repro house
Supporting line manager and wider production team as require

Qualifications and Experience

Previous experience of working in a production department as a production assistant or junior controller for a minimum of six months would be preferred
Experience of working on colour books; additional mono experience would be ideal but not essential
Experience of managing print scheduling
Clear and effective communicator able to build and maintain excellent internal and external working relationships

Competitive Salary

Working with a team of passionate, talented people

Internal learning and development programmes

Career Development opportunities

Fun social events

At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together.

We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere.

We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country's leading publishers.

The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention.

We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people.

As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.