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Commissioning Editor – STEM Books
4 months ago
Artech House – London, SW1V 4RW
Artech House is an independent professional book publisher, with offices in London and Boston, delivering technical books for working engineers and scientists, helping them solve the practical problems of today and tomorrow.
The Role:
Artech is seeking a seasoned a publishing professional to join its London staff as Commissioning Editor.
As part of the Artech team, you will have the opportunity to manage and contribute to some of the most important subject areas in electronics, science, and technology. Some of our most significant areas are mobile communications, power engineering, cyber security, and technology management. As Commissioning Editor, you will be responsible for signing 15 to 20 new titles per year.
The role will have supervisory responsibilities over one assistant commissioning editor. The assistant commissioning editor focuses on subject matter expert/peer review and manuscript development, preparing final manuscripts for transmittal to production and marketing, allowing the commissioning editor to focus on recruiting new authors, reviewing, and developing new projects, and preparing proposals for the Artech Editorial Board. The commissioning editor works collaboratively with series editors and authors around the world and with Artech acquisitions, production, and marketing staff in London and Boston.
Responsibilities:
· Commissions 15 to 20 new books per year and ensures titles meet revenue goals.
· Collaborates with acquisition colleagues, series editors, and leading experts to refine ongoing commissioning strategy, year over year, performing market research, monitoring sales, suggesting new projects.
· Monitors trends in electronics, especially in the UK and EU, staying abreast of future growth areas of interest (next-gen problems to solve)
· Manages the manuscript review and development processes.
· Owns project schedules and follow up with authors, from proposal to hand off to production.
· Handles all author inquiries and prospective author contact.
· Attends scientific meetings, represents Artech at industry conferences.
· Helps to create the annual commissioning budget.
· Manages relationships with Series Editors and reviewing their performance.
