A leading academic publisher, based in London, is looking to appoint an experienced Commissioning Editor to look after their highly reputable Business & Management books list.
Fundamental to this position will be the building of strong author relationships, ensuring that your books fulfil their sales potential while enhancing the company’s reputation as a successful and innovative publisher of business and management textbooks.
In this role you will:
- Develop and monitor the backlist.
- Provide creative support to authors
- Present projects at the Editorial Board meeting for approval.
- Identify current and future market trends.
- Recruit authors to write new titles and new editions from an agreed hitlist.
As Commissioning Editor, you will be the ‘champion’ of business and management publishing and will also supervise the work of an Editorial Assistant. Using your project management skills, you will manage products from early stages through to publication.
You will have a proven track record in adding value to a publishing programme and a strong understanding of both market conditions and academic publishing.
You will need to have excellent commercial experience while your experience of using market research to inform and shape product development will be important.
In this important role, you will need to be a ‘self-starter’, brilliant at finding new authors and able to build relationships with key figures in business and management. You will also have fantastic influencing skills allowing you to gain ‘buy-in’ from colleagues in editorial, marketing and sales.
If all of this sounds like your ideal commissioning role, please get in touch for further details and a job description.