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Enddatum: 24. Juli 2025 (Noch 6 Tage Zeit für Bewerbung)

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JR103572

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow. Visit group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature / @SpringerNatureGroup

About the Role

The Springer Nature Journals Group aims to support researchers in communicating and advancing discovery for a better world. We do this by providing a trusted environment in which researchers can quickly, easily and transparently share their discoveries, data and research stories.

The Collections Management and Acquisition Team is a division within the Publishing Performance & Intelligence group providing expertise and dedicated resources to support the growth of commissioned content across the SN Journal portfolio.

The Managing Editor will work with commissioning editors, publishers, external editors and our operational partners to organise and manage collections on behalf of key parts of the SN Journals portfolio. They will be responsible for the project management of multiple live collections and will work closely with our operational teams to provide an enhanced level of oversight for commissioned articles.

Increasing commissioned content is an essential part of our strategy to grow our Springer Nature journal portfolios and this role ensures we can do this at scale while maintaining an excellent level of quality and author service.

Role Responsibilities:

• Project management of live collections, including performance reporting (content flow and delivery, turnaround times, general submission/publication performance)

• Support of Commissioning Editors, Guest Editors, and Authors with queries throughout submission, peer-review, and publication processes

• Engagement with the Marketing department, Production teams, Editorial, and other internal stakeholders

• Contact point for Guest Editors throughout the collection

• Monitoring of content flow and delivery against collection submission window

• Responsible for filtering of MS and general oversight that excellent peer review is in place for commissioned content

• With the Editorial Support Advisor team contribute to robust workflow documentation to be used across all portfolios

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a STEM discipline with a keen interest in Science

• Experience in the publishing industry or science research

• Familiarity with the Research Process and the Scientific community

• An excellent understanding of the research publishing landscape and how journals and journal publishers serve the research community, particularly Open Access journals

• Direct experience of managing a journal or journal portfolio is desirable

• Strong data analysis and reporting skills – ability to directly query data is desirable

• Practical awareness of the importance and key aspects of research ethics

• Excellent presentational skills

• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal

• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders

• A creative mindset and the ability to bring energy, ideas and new approaches

• A strategic and commercial mindset, with experience in developing and implementing plans

• Ability to adapt quickly to change, juggle a varied workload under pressure and work quickly and efficiently on own initiative as well as part of a team

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent. Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work here https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/taking-responsibility/diversity-equity-inclusion

If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodation.

For more information about career opportunities in Springer Nature please visit https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatureCareers

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Enddatum: 18. Juli 2025 (Noch 19 Stunden Zeit für Bewerbung)