As our Associate Publisher, you will autonomously manage and develop a portfolio of journals, effectively driving content growth while maintaining high quality publications. Working with Senior Publishers and Publishers you will implement successful launches of new journals and you will assist with the transition and onboarding of Society journal portfolios. You will work to improve OUP's reputation and standing as a journals publisher through strong delivery of the above. Duties of the role will include:

• Manage and develop a portfolio of mainly science and medicine journals, including both hybrid and fully open access journals. Ensure journal, departmental, and divisional targets (including revenue, quality, and profitability) are achieved.
• Support Senior Publishers/Publishers with successful transition and onboarding of Society journal portfolios.
• Collaborate with external academic Editors to publish high quality content and increase article output where appropriate.
• Work with the Executive Publisher and Director to successfully negotiate consistent contractual terms with Editors, and any affiliated partners, which align with OUP's strategic priorities.
• Build strong relationships with editors, and where relevant, journal owners.
• Provide and interpret data analysis to enable evidence-based decision making for strategic/editorial development, including bibliometric analysis, competitor analysis and financial modelling.
• Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups (especially production, marketing, digital, and sales) to deliver an excellent service for journal owners and editors.
• Work with finance and operations colleagues to assist in the management of costs for the portfolio.
• Roll out global OUP journal policies across the portfolio when relevant.
• Assist with implementation of projects that scale across the journals programme.
• Attend appropriate conferences and industry events as appropriate; travel to maintain relationships and attend board meetings as well as internal meetings, either departmental or divisional.
  
  Some experience in journals publishing or transferable professional experience.
• Understanding of academic publishing, including editorial processes, production processes, marketing, industry trends, systems, competitors, and technology.
• Understanding of open access, including business models, sales models, policy initiatives, and the opportunities, sensitivities, and challenges of open access models.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify trends
  
  We are the world's largest university press. That means we serve the academic community as no other publisher can. We work in partnership with institutions and learned societies to bring a world of knowledge to the fingertips of students and researchers worldwide.
The goal is impact. Together with our academic communities, we curate and seamlessly connect together the ideas that push their fields forward, so they can learn from them, add to them, and continue a virtuous cycle of scholarship. And because we are a part of the academic community and guided in everything we do by our mission, we re-invest in our people, our publishing, and the world-leading research institution of which we are part.

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.