Commissioning Editor

**Commissioning Editor**

**Job type**: Full-time

**Team**: Smithers Information

**Salary**: Permanent

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

**Job description**

**The role**
- To commission and project manage a set number of market reports through to final publication, delivering both projected financial performance and high editorial standards
- To manage an effective handover for sales and marketing campaigns, to ensure market reports meet revenue targets
- To contribute to the creation of successful reports on new topics and in new industries, through high-quality research and effective networking with potential report buyers
- To produce high-quality content to serve the reports and membership business areas, and other revenue-generating editorial projects
- 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 are your responsibility to manage through to publication
- Research into our industries to develop new title ideas
- Speaking to clients for feedback and insight
- Speak to industry experts to validate what we think we know about industries
- Working with other departments, ie sales and marketing to launch campaigns for each report title
- Editing/proofing manuscripts

**Key Accountabilities**
- Commissioning, editing and publishing reports on-time to budget and to an acceptable quality
- Reading, proofreading and promptly responding to manuscript submissions
- Finding new authors who Smithers hasn’t worked with before and describing/explaining the market report process to them to ascertain if they are interested and available to work with Smithers
- Managing an author through the report publishing process, from researching suitable authors, to contract negotiation, through to writing the report and ensuring key deliverables are submitted on time, and ensuring invoices, for both authors and externalfreelancers are processed
- Maintaining strong relationships with authors, providing regular updates the progress of their report
- Working closely with the production team to ensure the delivery of a report is timely
- Negotiating contracts with new authors and on boarding to the Smithers way

**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
- Being part of a fun and friendly team.

**The company**

Smithers Information publishes market reports across a wide variety of industries, with customer satisfaction and personal development at the heart of what we do. Our primary objective is to publish reports which answer the big unanswered in fast-movingindustries through packaging, paper and print.

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.