Commissioning Editor

**Commissioning Editor**

**Location**:Leatherhead (hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home)

Smithers Information provides B2B events, market research, strategic and technical consulting globally.

We are renowned throughout numerous industry areas for our quality, high calibre conferences, and our comprehensive and informative market research reports. We offer independent and expert market insight to allow companies to identify opportunities and growtheir business.
In addition to offices in the US, UK and Asia, the organisation has specialist consultants world-wide.

We actively encourage career development and passionately support those who want to pursue and develop within the Smithers family. We have numerous examples of progression throughout the business and within some of our global businesses are proud that theaverage length of service amongst employees is a minimum of 10 years.

This Commissioning Editor role requires an individual who is open minded and intellectually curious. The main responsibility for this role is to manage authors through the process of publishing a report, while simultaneously developing their knowledge ofthe key industries Smithers publish in.
- Day in the life of a Commissioning Editor:_
- Searching for and assessing new authors
- Expanding personal network
- Managing your own title portfolio, there will be a set number of titles that you will take responsibility for to manage through to publication. Please note you will not be writing the publication, but will manage an author through that process
- Research into our industries to develop new title ideas
- Speaking to clients for feedback and insighs
- Speak to industry experts to validate what we think we know about industries
- Working with other departments, such as sales and marketing to launch campaigns for each report title
- Editing/proofing manuscripts

**Perks and benefits**
- 4 and half day week - early finish on a Friday
- Private medical
- 25 days annual leave
- Hybrid remote work schedule (2 days from home, 3 days in the office)
- Retail discounts
- Employee assistance program
- Ride to work scheme
- Service awards
- Life assurance
- Excellent development opportunities
- Regular social events