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Journal Production Coordinator
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Job Description
We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues, and society at large.
About the Role
The Journal Production Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the production performance and overall health of an allocated portfolio of approximately 70–80 journals. You will monitor copyflow, publication schedules, and portfolio risks, acting as a key point of contact and escalation when issues arise.
You will work closely with external supplier project managers, as well as colleagues across peer review, commissioning, and publishing, to help keep articles and issues progressing to publication. You will also identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working across your portfolio. This is a full-time fixed-term position ending 31 May 2027.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversee the production performance of an allocated portfolio of journals, monitoring publication schedules, copyflow, and portfolio health.
- Identify delays, low copy, pipeline issues, and other risks, working with relevant internal teams and supplier partners to resolve them.
- Act as a key point of contact and escalation for production-related issues across your portfolio.
- Work closely with external supplier project managers, providing guidance and support to help maintain agreed schedules, quality, and consistency.
- Maintain accurate journal, article, and issue information across relevant systems.
- Build effective working relationships with colleagues across peer review, commissioning, publishing, authors, and editors.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows and processes, and contribute to continuous improvement activity across the production team.
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Required Qualifications
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage a large portfolio, competing priorities, and multiple deadlines.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the confidence to take ownership of issues and work with others to resolve them.
- Excellent communication and relationship-management skills, including the ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Good attention to detail alongside the ability to understand the wider performance of a portfolio.
- Ability to interpret data and reports to identify issues, trends, and priorities.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel, and the ability to learn new systems and processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within publishing, journal production, content operations, or another relevant environment.
- Experience managing a portfolio of publications, projects, or other deadline-driven work.
- Experience working with external suppliers, vendors, or outsourced teams.
- Experience supporting or coaching colleagues or external partners.
- Experience identifying or contributing to workflow and process improvements.
- Knowledge of academic or scholarly publishing.
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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. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads-down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programming, we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.
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 in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. 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.
When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.
Salary Range
24,479.00 GBP to 30,284.33 GBP #LI-JG2
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