Journals Portfolio Manager - Plant Sciences

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Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Journals Portfolio Manager to join our global team! As part of our strategic expansion, as a Portfolio Manager you will be responsible for the commercial and editorial development for our Plant Science portfolio of journals.

A sense of autonomy is a huge plus since this team is international and you will be working within a globally based team (UK/US/APAC). While you’ll have interactions and regular meetings with international colleagues and editors, there will be times you’ll have to work independently.

What you’ll be doing:

• Creating and delivering plans to grow, launch, develop, and maximize the impact and profitability of our Plant Science portfolio of journals.
• Managing your journals’ portfolio under the direction of the Global Head of Portfolio, exceeding/meeting commercial and editorial targets and objectives
• Developing new journal propositions based on strong market research
• Encouraging in-depth and long-term relationships with current and new publishing partners to strengthen your portfolio of journals
• Proactively commissioning content, building network of contacts, and working with each journals’ editorial team to develop and deliver commissioning plans to grow content across your portfolio
• Maintaining a strong external focus e.g. attending conferences, editorial board meetings etc. creating profile and relevant networks to increase your knowledge of the Plant Science Community
• Building, maintaining, and sharing thorough knowledge of market need and competitor activity to inform decisions on new and existing journal development
• Coordinating budgets, preparing financial projections, and leading the overall financial performance of your journals
• Pro-actively managing the article pipeline to ensure that each journal, within your portfolio, is delivering against agreed service levels
• Representing Taylor & Francis at external meetings and conferences as the need arises, both virtually and physically

Closing date for applications: Friday 16th December 2022

What we are looking for:

• Experience of managing a portfolio of Journals to meet business growth objectives/or equivalent
• Good subject matter knowledge and ideally proven experience in developing journals within the Plant Sciences
• A background in the Plant Sciences would be a bonus
• Experience of working with internal departments, publishing partners and Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Section Editors to effectively manage copy flow
• Proven experience of interpreting and applying insight from data on submissions, accepts, rejects, and other pipeline and financial data
• Being able to demonstrate understanding of the issues currently facing scholarly and academic publishing
• Article commissioning experience would be a bonus
• Project management experience and client relations experience from other industries or academia would also be advantageous
• Strong team-working skills, ability to collaborate, work with proactively with others, and to share knowledge and best practice
• Excellent communication skills, oral, presentation and written
• Experience of working across departments within a dynamic, international organisation
• Resilience, self-reliance, and resourcefulness, to drive customer and commercial value
• Excellent communication skills, oral, presentation and written
• Willingness and motivated to travel to and participate in external events and networks

What we offer in return:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture.
• 25 days annual leave per year, plus an extra day off for your birthday/ house moving.
• 3 additional discretionary days for Christmas each year (UK and US only)
• 4 paid volunteering days each year
• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support
• Bonus and commission (if applicable)
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care.

You must have the right to live and work in the UK

T&F has multiple options for how employees can work based on their role – be that in the office, at home or somewhere in between.

Closing date for applications: Friday 16th December 2022

Additional information:

Training And Professional Development:

We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Interview process:

Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact recruitment@tandf.co.uk

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis:

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.

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.

We genuinely 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. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers

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.

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