Managing Editor - London, United Kingdom - hachette

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1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Publishing Operations Director, you will be responsible for:

  • managing desk editorial for the non-fiction team, from accepted manuscript to final files, allocating and balancing work across the department
- ensuring editorial best practice across all fiction and non-fiction imprints at Hodder & Stoughton, suggesting and delivering improvements to workflow and training
- maintaining a freelancer database, and looking to broaden the diversity of our copyeditors and proofreaders
- monitoring and driving progress of the critical path
- offering support and guidance to the editorial teams to maintain the highest possible standards

Who we are looking for

Management experience preferred.

What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this.

In addition to 25 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include:
a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 community days per year, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more


The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our Commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities.

We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.


If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Who we are and what we do
Hodder & Stoughton is an award-winning publisher within Hachette UK, one of the UK's biggest publishing groups.

For over 150 years, we have been one of the UK's leading publishers of fiction and non-fiction and are renowned for passion, quality and delivering bestselling books in many different formats.


We work with authors across all genres and are the proud publishers of many international bestselling authors, including John Grisham, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, David Nicholls, David Mitchell, Mike Gayle, Ella Mills and Gordon Ramsay.

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