Production Editor - London, United Kingdom - hachette

hachette

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

What you'll be doing

You will be responsible for taking projects through all stages of production up to publication, ensuring all products are produced on time, to budget and to a high quality, and communicating effectively with authors throughout the production process.

You will foster and maintain constructive relationships with colleagues and external suppliers, briefing and overseeing the work of all freelance editors, typesetters, proofreaders and indexers, and collaborate closely with our team of Production Controllers to produce exceptional products.

Technical knowledge of digital formats and workflows is desirable but not essential.

Who we are looking for

You will possess superb communication skills, a meticulous eye for detail, impeccable grammar and spelling and effective time-management skills. The role will offer scope for considerable autonomy and responsibility.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this.

In addition to 28 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

This role can be based at our London office, or at any of our new regional offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle, or Sheffield, 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

Jessica Kingsley Publishers is an award-winning, global publisher with a strong social justice agenda.

We believe in empowering individuals through information and knowledge and aim to drive social change by celebrating diversity and equality for all.

We have long been known for our pioneering publishing; we publish in the social and mental health sciences and have a market-leading portfolio of books on the autism spectrum; more recently we've broken new ground with our publishing in gender diversity and Chinese medicine under the Singing Dragon imprint.