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SalaryAbout the Role
In this role you will be responsible for overseeing and supporting external suppliers as they manage complex print and digital products from handover of developed content to final print or digital output format. You will also be supporting and training suppliers to utilise OUP’s standard processes, systems and workflows to ensure the efficiency and quality of final outputs. You are expected to work towards empowering suppliers to take ownership of the production process, to ensure content is delivered to agreed publishing date and specifications and is consistent with the Divisions’ Strategic Objectives and Mission Success Factors.
Key Accountabilities & Relationships:
- Project Management
- Supplier management
- Budget management
- Editorial quality
- Communication and cross-functional team working
- Training and mentoring
- Issue prevention and resolution
- Continuous improvement
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Essential:
- Flexibility, creativity, and initiative in problem solving along with an ability to get to the root cause and facilitate a path to success.
- Ability to empathise, support, and collaborate with others on problem resolution and to step back and entrust others with implementation.
- Experience of commissioning and managing the work of external suppliers.
- Ability to build relationships, influence, and negotiate with key stakeholders
- Significant editorial experience in educational publishing.
- Experience of project managing print and/or digital content production.
- Experience of budget management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Well-developed organisational skills, including an ability to prioritise.
Desirable:
- Experience of training and mentoring on workflows, processes and tools
- Experience of budget management
- A background or interest in ELT
Benefits
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.
This role comes with a discretionary annual bonus.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact tobi.ogunnaike@oup.com with any queries relating to this role.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
