Commissioning Editor, Children's Fiction

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Full time

**Commissioning Editor, Children’s Fiction**

**The opportunity**

**The role**
- Acquiring outstanding new fiction, across the age range from 5 to YA
- Editing and project managing around 10-15 titles per year
- Working closely and creatively with your authors to ensure that they are well supported
- Taking responsibility for every stage of the editorial process from acquisition through to publication, ensuring that your titles are running to critical path and to budget
- Liaising with Sales, Rights, Marketing and Publicity to champion your books and ensuring that deadlines for sales materials and copy are met
- Working closely with Design and Managing Editors to ensure your books are briefed and delivered to the highest standard, on time and on budget
- Writing top-notch-selling copy, ensuring metadata is current and commercially appropriate

**Knowledge, skills and experience**

We are seeking:

- An exceptional editor with broad experience of editing children’s and YA fiction across the age ranges, ideally with some experience of commissioning
- Strong commercial awareness of the children’s and YA fiction market
- A proven track record of great author care
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- A skilled structural editor, able to work across a range of genres, age groups and writing styles to support authors to deliver their best work
- Top-notch project management skills, including a thorough understanding of schedules and costings, good organisation and meticulous attention to detail
- A team player, able to galvanise cross-departmental support for books and authors, and to take a proactive role within the fiction editorial team, being a supportive colleague and champion of the fiction list as a whole

**Additional information**
The role is a full-time and permanent position. The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are: Monday and Tuesday.

**Bloomsbury Benefits**

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:
Working Pattern
- hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays
- 25 days holiday
- 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits:
Two paid Personal Wellness Days

Flexible Fridays - _take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 45 minutes earlier in the week_

Season Ticket Loan

Sharesave Scheme

In-house Doctor

Eyecare Voucher Scheme

Company culture - Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom (BAME), Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers) and 21 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources
- For additional benefits see below_
- We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required_

**Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

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