Associate Publisher

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Taylor & Francis is one of the world's largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas, and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we've been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that's the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we'd love to hear from you.

• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture.
• Single cover private medical insurance for all colleagues.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus bank holidays and your birthday off.
• 3 additional discretionary days for the holiday period at the end of the year
• 4 paid volunteering days each year
• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Flexible benefits including life assurance, optical and medical care.

This role is open to candidates based in the UK. This role will be predominantly home based with regular travel to our office in 240 Blackfriars, London, along with occasional visits to our office in Milton Park, Oxfordshire.

F1000 (part of Taylor & Francis Group) has an exciting new opportunity for an Associate Publisher to join the team. F1000 is a trailblazer in rethinking research communications by combining the opportunities offered by technology, with a passion to reimagine how research can be validated and shared.Together, we champion openness and transparency torapidly deliver knowledge to the benefit of all, byproviding services and ultimately a range of choices to researchers, institutions, funders, and scholarly societies, that facilitate collaborative and efficient ways of doing research and delivering impact.

Working closely with colleagues across F1000 and Taylor & Francis, including in the Marketing, Commercial and Researcher Services divisions, the Associate Publisher role will be responsible for supporting the development, and delivery, of the publishing strategy to grow article revenue for F1000's publishing platforms and gateways.

You should be commercially minded and able to think strategically, and can successfully implement new strategies and business plans whilst being flexible and adapt quickly to change. You will bring previous experience in a publishing environment with demonstrable success, and knowledge and understanding of scholarly publishing and policy, and of Open Research practices.

You should be self-driven and a highly effective team player, can think on your feet, have a strong solution-driven approach, and be an excellent project manager with demonstrable experience of developing and successfully managing relationships with partners.

What you'll be doing:

The key purpose of the Associate Publisher role is to support the overarching publishing strategy to grow article revenue on our flagship partner platforms and F1000Research . Reporting to the Head of Publishing and working closely with F1000's Publishing, Editorial, and Marketing teams, the Associate Publisher will:

• Work across the business to implement an annual strategy across F1000Research and partner platforms to maximise content growth and our influence in the wider academic community.
• Deliver outreach campaigns to researchers to convince them to publish with F1000 venues.
• Provide high quality management and build strong relationships with external partners to successfully develop and manage their F1000 publishing venues to develop opportunities to deliver enhanced and/or new services, grow their commitment to Open Research publishing, and ultimately ensuring successful renewal of contracts.
• Conduct meetings and provide reporting to external partners.
• Build relationships and broaden networks with academic communities, including representing F1000 publications, products, and services at external events.
• Support the Head of Publishing, Publisher, and Senior Associate Publisher to identify opportunities across Taylor & Francis for collaboration on new products, services, and initiatives that F1000 might add value to and/or benefit from.
• Contribute to content growthstrategies in Open Research across Taylor &Francis and F1000.
• Work with the F1000 Publishing and Editorial teams to improve publishing processes and workflows.
• Maintain an active and up-to-date knowledge of the latest developments in publishing, especially in Open Research.
• Take an active role in relevant innovation projects and initiatives as necessary.

What we're looking for:

• Previous scholarly publishing experience
• Customer focus and demonstrable experience with managing important external partnerships
• Ability to influence partners and develop existing relationships
• Experience and demonstrable success in growing article revenue for an academic publisher, particularly by creating and successfully implementing author outreach and content acquisition plans
• Experience of working with authors and building networks with the wider research community
• Good commercial and business sense, and a data-driven and evidence-based approach
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to manage your own workload and prioritise multiple projects
• Knowledge of the academic publishing industry and the wider scholarly research system, particularly Open Access and Open Research
• An active interest in and knowledge of Open Access publishing and the move to more Open Research practices more generally
• A positive and proactive solution-driven approach to problem solving both in daily tasks and more complex troubleshooting, with the ability to think laterally
• Willingness to learn and develop skills with key business systems and processes
• The ability to work independently and proactively, with awareness of when to make use of the wider infrastructure around them
• Excellent project management and teamwork skills and able to work cooperatively with colleagues at all levels
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills
• Well-developed networking and persuasion skills
• Capable of representing F1000 as an expert speaker on Open Research
• Willing to travel occasionally and represent F1000 at external events

Additional Information

This role is open to candidates based in the UK. You must have the right to live and work in the UK.

This role will be predominantly home based with regular travel to our office in 240 Blackfriars, London, along with occasional visits to our office in Milton Park, Oxfordshire.

Training And Professional Development:

We're passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We'll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support, and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we'd then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible Please contact

If you're excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don't fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and contribute regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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