Job Description

We are the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

About the Role

NB This is a fixed term contract for a minimum period of 6 months.

In this role you will manage the production and delivery of publishing products for the ELT Division to ensure cost-effective, timely, consistent, and innovative solutions that enhance ELT\xe2\x80\x99s position as market leader. You\'ll manage a team of Operations staff to ensure sufficient resourcing and quality standards are adhered to, in order to fulfil our publishing strategy.

Key accountabilities:

• Compile and manage resourcing plan for multiple publishing lists, acting as key stakeholder to deliver the most cost-effective solutions for ELT\'s Publishing Plans.
• Recruit, train, and line manage team members, motivating and supporting staff to deliver cost-effective and innovative products within time and budget.
• Delegate responsibility for projects to line reports, ensuring that they are delivered on time, on budget, and to the agreed level of quality.
• Advise Director of Content Delivery on budget requirements to support management of annual budget, and advise on estimated versus actual spend.
• Within guidelines set by Outsourcing Services Manager, negotiate and manage business relationships with suppliers to deliver high quality projects successfully within time and agreed budgets.
• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement, communicate changes to workflows and processes to line reports, and ensure adherence.
• Represent Content Delivery, ELT, on new publishing initiatives to ensure publishing strategy is managed and delivered in accordance with business requirements
• Research technology and industry best practice to offer advice and guidance on educational publishing products to ensure that innovative and cost-effective solutions are proposed to meet user requirements.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

Essential:

• Significant experience project managing relevant print and digital publishing projects
• Knowledge of the end to end lifecycle of products, from concept, through delivery and revisions.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office

Desirable:

• Line management experience
• Formal project management qualification
• Knowledge or experience of English Language Teaching

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days\xe2\x80\x99 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.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact with any queries relating to this role.

Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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