Jobs in Publishing

Marketing Manager, Online Marketing

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Deadline for application: 27th May 2013

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Global Academic Business (GAB) Division publishes books, journals and digital resources for the research, professional and higher education markets.

About the Role

The Online Marketing Group is looking for a Global Marketing Manager to develop marketing strategies for online products resources and tools; from campaign conception, to setting digital marketing strategy, to liaising with all departments to test, plan, and orchestrate the implementation of the strategies, globally, to deadline.

This is an important position and the post holder will be expected to:

• become the key marketing contact and global product expert for a range of online products during the entire lifecycle (conception to launch, from product development roadmap to maturation)

• be confident and experienced using digital marketing channels (SRM, PPC, SEO) 

• manage the work of 5 full time Marketing staff to ensure that they fully support the objectives and goals of the Online Marketing department

• manage the marketing budget for allocated products to ensure that all campaigns and activity associated with the marketing strategies for the required products are delivered within budget, and also to create future budgets for on-going activity

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Journal Publishing Assistant

John Wiley & Sons Limited

Location: Chichester, West Sussex

The Journal Publishing Assistant is an exciting role within our Social Sciences team. The role holder will provide administrative support and editorial assistance to a Journal Publishing Manager (JPM) and a Commissioning Editor to help with editorial management and development of their titles and support commissioning of new journals. 

Selection criteria

• Experience of working independently without close supervision

• The ability to communicate effectively and accurately, both verbally and in writing

• A high standard of computer literacy including Microsoft Office

• Experience of working in an office or administrative environment

• The ability to manage own workload, with good organisational skills

• A high standard of verbal and written English

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Education to degree level or equivalent, a Social Sciences and Humanities qualification is desirable

• Database, previous publishing experience and a familiarity with journal publishing would be an advantage. 

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Publicity Assistant - Publishing

Palgrave Macmillan

Location: London

Palgrave Macmillan is one of the leading learned publishers in the world and publishes serious non-fiction and cutting edge research in the humanities, social sciences, business and finance for global markets in print and online. We seek to recruit a Publicity Assistant to join our friendly, creative and hardworking Press department.

This role represents an excellent introduction to publicity as you will be an integral part of our busy global press team. Reporting to the Senior Publicist you will mainly be working on our trade non-fiction list which covers business, politics, current affairs, popular science and history. You will be responsible for writing and distributing press releases; handling review copy mailings; answering press and author enquiries; and updating our media database and parts of our website.

The successful candidate will:

·         Be educated to degree level

·         Have excellent communication and writing skills

·         Enjoy working as part of a team and contributing creatively

·         Be calm under pressure and able to prioritise and handle a diverse workload

·         Have a sound knowledge of social media and be able to demonstrate solid IT skills including MS Office including Word and Excel

·         Be passionate about books and have a good understanding of the media

·         Work experience in publicity, publishing or journalism would be a distinct advantage but is not essential.

This position will be based at our London offices in King’s Cross with occasional travel to Basingstoke.

Applicants must have an existing right to live and work in the United Kingdom. The level of appointment will be commensurate with experience.

We look forward to hearing from you. To apply, please submit your CV, and a covering letter stating your current salary and quoting reference PAL/018/13 to: http://jobs.macmillan.com For more information about the Macmillan group click here to visit our website.

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XML Data Engineer

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Deadline for application: 20th May 2013

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Global Academic Business (GAB) Division publishes books, journals and digital resources for the research, professional and higher education markets.

About the Role

Content is the cornerstone of OUP’s award-winning range of digital and print products, and we pride ourselves on the quality and accuracy of our data. The Content Architecture group (CA) are responsible for turning source material into XML content for use in digital and print publishing, and for licensing to third parties. CA works closely with internal editors, production staff, freelancers, offshore suppliers, and licensing partners.

We are looking to recruit a Data Engineer to the team to work on content for our prestigious product range. The successful candidate will be joining a busy and dynamic team focused on delivering an excellent service and continuously improving our processes to meet business needs.

We are seeking a capable and enthusiastic individual to work on academic and professional content, which will include requirement to:

• analyse source content (hardcopy and electronic) against requirements for digital products
• develop scripts to generate, transform, enhance, or check XML content
• specify the structure and quality of data to be generated by external suppliers
• assess the quality of data prepared by suppliers and work with suppliers to resolve issues

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Sales and Marketing Assistant - Maidenhead

The McGraw-Hill Companies

Location: Maidenhead

Reporting to the Head of Marketing, a Sales and Marketing Assistant is involved in all aspects of the marketing function. Your primary responsibility will be to support and promote our products. Often acting as the first point of call for internal sales representatives, bookshops, lecturers and students, you’ll quickly build a working knowledge of our lists and the content and learning solutions we produce.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing general administration support for the Marketing and Sales teams and directing queries to the relevant sales representative.
• Designing and printing promotional material for bookshops and conferences.
• Ensuring our product database is updated with marketing copy and product information to provide an accurate resource for the sales team.
• Liaising with the Editorial and Sales teams to produce trade sales kits to schedule in order to promote new titles.
• Assisting the Marketing Managers to prepare for sales conferences.
• Troubleshooting initial technical enquiries from lecturers and students for our various learning solution systems.
• Updating and maintaining sections of the Higher Education website where required.
• Designing and managing emarketing campaigns to publicise new titles and learning solutions.
• Collating and distributing new adoption information to the Editorial, Marketing and Sales teams.
• Conducting market research and social media responsibilities as required.

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Designer

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Education Division provides books and resources across Primary, Secondary, Trade and Children’s markets, both for the UK and for customers around the world. We are passionately committed to our mission to educate and inspire through book board and screen.

About the Role

The Schools Design department (part of the Education division) produces design for print and digital product for UK and International markets.

The role of Designer is an extremely busy and exciting creative role within the Primary school design team, presenting an opportunity to lead on design of content for an established market-leading numeracy brand along with other exciting opportunities to work on literacy brand products too.

Responsibilities will include:

• co-ordinate and manage internal and external design and illustration services to ensure quality and on time delivery
• design key marketing pieces for print and online delivery and produce brand guidelines for new products
• manage budgets for design and illustration of multiple component projects

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Education Consultant - Europe

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Deadline for application: 24th May 2013

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Education Division provides books and resources across Primary, Secondary, Trade and Children’s markets, both for the UK and for customers around the world. We are passionately committed to our mission to educate and inspire through book board and screen.

About the Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to join our successful and driven international sales team in the Educational & Children’s Division. The team works alongside UK Editorial, Sales and Marketing, and sells education products through a network of OUP branches, agents and distributors as well as directly to overseas schools.
 
Based in Oxford, with considerable travel overseas during key promotional months - mostly within a nominated territory which will include Germany, Poland and areas of North Eastern Europe, with potential travel in other territories - you will be responsible for planning, carrying out and following up on sales trips. This will involve visiting schools and retailers to sell UK and international curriculum textbooks and materials.

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Music Hire Manager

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Deadline for application: 26th May 2013

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Global Academic Business (GAB) Division publishes books, journals and digital resources for the research, professional and higher education markets.

About the Role

The Music department has an active publishing programme of choral, easy instrumental, and concert music, and maintains a strong backlist of 20th-century British music. The Music Hire Library manages the hire of orchestral and choral music to professional and amateur clients (including broadcasters and recording companies) worldwide.

The Music Hire Manager is an extremely busy and varied role, dealing with a range of external customers and liaising with in-house colleagues.

Responsibilities will include -

• managing one full-time and one part-time assistant in the supply of Oxford’s concert music worldwide
• liaising with a network of hire agents in other countries for the supply of music
• overseeing the production of new hire materials, including new works by Oxford composers and new editions of existing works
• assisting in the promotion of the concert list
• meeting income targets and working within expenditure budgets
• representing OUP in relevant industry forums

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Library Sales Manager, Southern & Eastern Europe

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Deadline for application: 27th May 2013

About Us

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Global Academic Business (GAB) Division publishes books, journals and digital resources for the research, professional and higher education markets.

About the Role

We seek a highly motivated and experienced Sales Manager to lead a dynamic and growing team of four responsible for selling OUP’s market-leading digital resources (such as the Oxford Journals, Oxford English Dictionary Online, and Oxford Scholarship Online) across the academic, public, and commercial library sectors in Southern Europe (including France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and North Africa) and Eastern Europe (including Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Baltics, and CIS).

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• management of the Southern & Eastern Europe Library Sales team, consisting of four sales consultants
• preparing and implementing team & personal sales strategies to maximise sales of Online Products and Journals to institutional customers
• coordinating research into new prospects and new sales opportunities in order to identify areas for growth
• managing and developing relationships with current partners (consortia and agents), as well as key institutional librarians and leading academics
• conducting regular customer visits as well as representing OUP at relevant industry events and giving sales presentations
• building and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of OUP’s electronic product offering as it develops
• acquiring and maintaining a demonstrably thorough knowledge of the electronic information publishing industry to help maintain OUP’s competitive advantage and respond well to customer requirements

The role will require regular travel within territory and therefore could be based in the UK or in territory area.

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Dictionaries Assistant (fixed term contract)

Oxford University Press

Location: Oxford

Deadline for application: 23rd May 2013

About Us

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The ELT Division is a global leader in the provision of multimedia English language teaching and learning materials. Operating in over 100 countries, it reaches millions of teachers and students each year to support the development of English language proficiency.

About the Role

We are seeking an Assistant to join the ELT  Dictionaries team, the department that produces dictionaries for non–native learners of English. Within role you will be helping ELT dictionaries editors with the correction and creation of dictionary text and practice materials, to be published both in print and digitally. Tasks will include -

• carrying out consistency checks
• keying text or making changes to the databases
• performing clerical tasks such as photocopying

You will also deal with queries received through our ELT Dictionaries Helpdesk and this will include -

• managing incoming queries about our digital products via a web base tracking system
• sending customers solutions with explanations
• writing documentation for new issues

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