Journals Content Acquisition Manager, USA
Job Description
We are seeking an outgoing and organized individual with excellent management, analytical and communication skills to join the team to work as a Journals Content Acquisition Manager, USA across the Taylor & Francis portfolio of journals, including its Open Access titles.
The key purpose of this role will be to help establish and then lead a highly efficient and dedicated team of Content Acquisition/Commissioning Editors to bring in high-quality article submissions across all subject areas for a broad range of journals and open research publishing venues in the Taylor & Francis portfolio. This will involve helping to recruit and then train a team of Content Acquisition/Commissioning Editors, working with relevant publishing and editorial teams to develop and be responsible for a content development, article solicitation and commissioning strategy, and then managing the team to monitor and refine the strategy as vital to ensure an ongoing solid pipeline of new article content to meet defined company targets. The role will also be hands-on in both analysing scientific fields and growth areas, and engaging with researchers to build awareness of the benefits of publishing with Taylor & Francis, publishing Open Access and open science publishing approaches to contribute to that article pipeline.
You will have demonstrable experience of developing and delivering a content development strategy, and experience of managing a team and building and refining effective workflows and processes to help build a system that is highly scalable. You must have an active interest in open data and open science, as well as in publishing and related matters.
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