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This role will oversee production editorial staff for one or more imprints. Collaborate with other Production Editorial leadership to define house style and procedural guidelines. Implement and enforce style rules for production editorial staff. Perform staff reviews and assessments and hire and train staff as needed. Review/approve cover/jacket materials before printing; ensure quality is maintained. Review/approval for interiors, depending on imprint. Production-edit select fiction and/or nonfiction titles per year. Technical proficiency in MS Word, Acrobat PDF markup tools, and Workflow/Metadata systems is required as well as the ability to train others.What you’ll do: Assess workloads and assign titles to PEs in consultation with the ME. Determine style guidelines. Perform staff reviews and assessments, including performance improvement plans (PIPs) as needed. Hire and train additional staff as needed. Approve time-off requests while maintaining departmental coverage. General staff management: status/team meetings, monitoring workflows, procedures training.Review/approve cover/jacket materials before printing; ensure quality is maintained. Review/approve interiors, depending on imprint.Act as Production Editor on select titles per season.Meeting/communicating with designers/editors/production managers/art dept/managing editors/legal dept/authors as needed concerning: scheduling; revisions suggested by copy editors or proofreaders; unusually high copyediting, proofreading, and indexing costs, or high correction costs due to many corrections marked at first or second pass by proofreaders or authors; complying with Legal Department directives.Communicate in a professional and timely manner with publishers, managing editors, designers, art, editorial, and production managers regarding status of projects and route related materials to editors, designers, production managers. Update progress of projects in various digital tracking systems, using correct file-naming conventions and following procedures. What you’ll bring: Background in adult trade fiction and nonfiction including 4C titles, cookbooks, and titles of various complexityAbility to manage a team of production editors, helping them to anticipate problems, troubleshoot solutions, and prioritizeStrong knowledge of grammar and punctuation, including familiarity with the Chicago Manual of Style Meticulous attention to detail; work well under pressure; good oral and verbal communicationAbility to meet deadlines while juggling multiple projects at onceWork well with others in a tactful manner, displaying common sense and initiative. Experience/Education: At least six to eight years’ experience as a production editor and/or managing editor in adult trade fiction/nonfictionExperience in managing staffCopyediting and proofreading at a high levelTechnical proficiency in MS Word, Acrobat PDF markup tools, and Workflow/Metadata systems as well as the ability to train and mentor others.Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world, publishing a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. Macmillan Publishers is committed to our authors, our employees, and to the environment.U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Picador, St. Martin’s Press and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.Macmillan Publishers is a part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media group of companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
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2021-08-09T08:19:16Z
