Senior Publisher

We have an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and strategically-minded individual to work with us as a Senior Publisher. Reporting to the Head of Journals Development, you’ll be a key member of the Journals Publishing team, alongside three other SeniorPublishers. You’ll be responsible forthe performance of the Bio & Environmental Science portfolio of journals which includes overseeing journals and commissioning strategy, managing resources and budgets, as well as line management of the journals portfolioteam.

You will develop portfolio
- and journal-level strategies and motivate the team to deliver the commissioning plans, achieving sustained growth and delivery of key targets. This will require advanced line management skills and the ability to forge a strongteam-working ethos, whilst focusing on individual team member development. You will have responsibility for managing team member resource across your portfolio and will ensure that plans and activities are commercial and delivered in line with business strategyand budget.

To inform and support the development of the journal portfolio’s editorial strategies, you will manage and establish strong working relationships with the journals’ Editorial Boards and continuously develop links with the journals’ author communities throughinternational conferences and institutional visits.

**About you**:
Applicants should demonstrate the following:

- An undergraduate degree or PhD, ideally in physical or life sciences domain;
- Significant STM Journals publishing experience, including journal article commissioning;
- Experience of managing and motivating a team;
- Experience of managing and maintaining financial budgets;
- Excellent communication skills;
- A collaborative approach to team management and to working with peers.

**About the benefits**:
Our modern and contemporary offices are based in the thriving city centre of Bristol, a stone’s throw away from Temple Meads train station, and within walking distance of Cabot Circus shopping centre, and numerous cafés and restaurants. Named on more thanone occasion as the best city in the UK to live in, Bristol is a cosmopolitan and creative city boasting a historic harbour, internationally renowned cultural institutions and home to world-class festivals and events.

**The contractual location for this role can be either remote or in our Philadelphia office. For office-based colleagues, we have a hybrid working model in place with a dynamic and blended combination of office and remote working, dependent on businessand team requirements.**

**To apply, please submit your CV and cover note through our careers site.**

**About us**:
IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of eBooks, magazinesand conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Working inthe interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth, we recognise that everysingle person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.