Production Editor

Company Description
**Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.**

**Taylor & Francis Group produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.**

**Job Description**:
Are you looking for your next challenge? Join Taylor & Francis Group within our Books Production Editorial department at this exciting time of growth and opportunity.

We are recruiting for two Production Editors to join our team, and project manage books across the Routledge and Taylor & Francis imprints.

As a Production Editor you will oversee the production of new titles from receipt of the author’s un-copyedited typescript through to delivery of the final content, ensuring new books meet our quality requirements.

The key responsibilities are:

- Commissioning, preparing material for, managing and feeding back to external suppliers such as project managers.
- Maintaining up-to-date information on our database, and communicating with colleagues in other departments as necessary.
- Quality control of final content.
- Controlling schedules.
- Controlling budgets, assessing and coding invoices for prompt supplier payment.
- Liaising with authors if required, and providing necessary support.
- Completing multiple tasks to deadlines within a process driven environment.

Full training will be provided.

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for**:

- Accustomed to prioritising and working to deadlines, be organised and able to multi-task.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify spelling and grammatical errors.
- An understanding of the importance of maintaining information relied on by others, ideally through experience of using a database.
- A good communicator, both written and verbal, able to represent the company professionally and contribute to the team.
- Basic skills in MS Office including Word, Excel and Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat Reader
- A basic understanding of XML and ebook functionality.
- Experience of working within budgets.
- The ability to problem-solve and work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
- An aptitude and enthusiasm for working with new technology and dealing with people, and adapting well to change.
- A basic understanding of the publishing process from typescript submission to final content.

Additional Information
**What we offer in return**:

- A minimum salary of circa £28k
- 25 days annual leave
- A discretionary additional 3 days at Christmas
- 4 volunteering days annually
- Day off for your birthday
- Pension contributions
- Seasonal social and charitable events
- Training and development opportunities
- At Taylor & Francis we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about._

**Additional information**:

- You must have the right to live and work in the UK
- Taylor & Francis has multiple options for how employees can work based on their role - be that in the office, at home or somewhere in between.

**Interview process**:
**Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis**:
Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.