At Springer Nature we give you the opportunity to work in a progressive publishing company, home to some of the best names in research. We offer a wide array of roles with varying responsibilities, enabling you to learn new skills so that you can further develop your career.
Roles & Responsibilities
Take a look below at the key requirements for just some of our roles across our editorial and publishing groups in the research division.
- Ensures manuscripts adhere to all journal policies
- Communicates with academic editors and authors to facilitate the publication process
- Identify areas where Section Heads or Associate Editors are required
- Commissions reviews and/or selects manuscripts for peer review, manages peer review process
- Writes editorial summaries and press releases, and other written content
- Facilitates communication between authors and reviewers
- Organises lab visits and attends conferences
- Identifies stories to cover, write and/or assign to writers
- Edit copy to tight, coherent and compelling narratives
- Posts stories online, add hyperlinks, related stories, story collections, and other digital tasks
- Responsible for the published content of the journal
- Develops a strategic direction for the journal
- Recruits, trains and plans the professional development of editorial staff
- Assesses and develops book publishing proposals
- Monitors market trends to identify competitive publishing opportunities for our books programmes
- Maintains a network of authors, negotiates publishing contracts and pitches book publishing projects to senior colleagues
- Responsible for the published content of the journal or series of journals
- Develops a strategic direction for a journal or series of journals
- Builds communication with editorial board members and scientific community
- Supporting journals; manages the flow of manuscripts through our tracking system. Supporting books; organises peer review of new and revised submissions
- Supports editors, authors and reviewers
- Point of contact across different departments, including Production, Art and Press
- Encourages manuscript submission through active promotion of the journal
- Point of contact for external individuals related to the journal and internal departments such as marketing and sales
- Assesses each journals need for development, define objectives for each journal
- Translates company objectives into journal development, oversee new journal launches
- Ensures manuscripts adhere to all journal policies on submission
- Communicates with editorial board members
- Carries out research for new products and product development
- Builds and maintain reports, monitor performance of products
- Communicates with market research team and editorial teams
- Selects editorial board members for manuscript processing
- Ensures manuscripts adhere to all journal policies, oversees all decisions sent to authors
- Communicates with editorial board members
- Assesses and develops book publishing proposals.
- Monitors market trends to identify competitive publishing opportunities for our books.
- Maintains a network of authors, negotiates publishing contracts and pitches book publishing projects to senior colleagues.
- Creates schedules, coordinates and ensures timely delivery of projects. Carries out research for new products and product development
- Collects statistics and formulates recommendations and reports for senior managers
- Communicates with editorial, production, sales, advertising, sponsorship and marketing departments
- Identifies topics for news and feature articles
- Identifies pertinent sources and conduct interviews
- Writes clear, accurate and well-structured articles
Career development
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