Production Controller, Production Hoz - London, United Kingdom - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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London, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Production Controller, Production Head of Zeus (Fixed Term Contract - February 2024)
Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house established in 1986. It has companies in London, New York, Sydney and Delhi.

Over the last 10 years, Bloomsbury has made a number of acquisitions making us one of the most diverse, and innovative, publishing companies operating today.

Head of Zeus has joined the Bloomsbury family and is an award-winning independent publisher of fiction, narrative non-fiction and children's books.

The Opportunity

There is an exciting opportunity for a Production Controller to join our Production team on a fixed term contract until February 2024 looking after the scheduling and production of front list titles.

Primary responsibilities

Managing the front list titles of one of our commercial imprints: booking copyeditors and proofreaders; liaising with typesetters; circulating prelims and backmatter for signoff for books across the list.
Maintaining schedules on Biblio and liaising with the Editorial and Art departments to ensure deadlines are met.
Supervising the final stages of production raising Purchase Orders and sending to print; checking printers' proofs, ensuring quality of the highest standards is maintained throughout.
Sending final files for conversion to eBook.

Other responsibilities will include:

Supervising reprints and POD set up checking if corrections are needed, liaising with typesetters, raising Purchase Orders and sending to print; checking printers' proofs.
Using printers' calculators and Biblio to cost front list titles and reprints.
Checking invoices.
Archiving final files.

Experience required:

Working knowledge of Biblio
Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, InDesign in particular.
Some experience of working in a book production department or publishing environment.

Key skills

Highly organised, with the ability to multitask and prioritise workload.
Meticulous and thorough, with a keen eye for detail.
Excellent communication and numeracy skills.

This role is a full time
fixed term contract until February 2024

The role is based at our London office 5-8 Hardwick Street, London EC1R 4RG on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred).

Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Thursday

Bloomsbury Benefits
As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:
Working Pattern
- hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

25 days holiday
3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits:
Two paid Personal Wellness Days

Flexible Fridays - _take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 45 minutes earlier in the week_

Season Ticket Loan

Sharesave Scheme

In-house Doctor

Eyecare Voucher Scheme

Company culture - Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom (BAME), Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers), and 9 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see below_
We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required_

**Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.