Job Description

Education changes lives forever. It broadens horizons, breaks down barriers, and fires imaginations. Like the University of Oxford, of which we are a part, we are committed to uncompromising standards, freedom of expression, and the enrichment of lives through education. This is our motivation, our purpose, and our mission. It is why 100% of the money we make is reinvested into education and research. It is why all 6,000 of us in 52 countries care deeply about reaching more people in more places, with world-class learning and research materials and services.

The Education Division provides books and resources across Primary, Secondary, Trade and Children\'s markets, both for the UK and for customers around the world. We are passionately committed to our mission to educate and inspire.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Publisher to play a key role in Oxford Education to ensure we deliver our publishing plans. The Publisher will be responsible for developing an innovative and fast-paced global publishing pipeline aligned to agreed strategic priorities, drawing on in-depth market knowledge, which will grow revenues for OUP\xe2\x80\x99s home learning list. The role will be in charge of commissioning print and digital product, working with key brands and developing new ones, to agreed UK and International publishing strategy and home sector objectives. This role will also be responsible for identifying, contracting and managing authors and editorial contributors who are a strong fit for projects, working to budgets and agreed commercial models, overseeing smooth content creation and collaborating with all channels to deliver to revenue targets.

The Publisher has commercial insight and a deep understanding of the children\xe2\x80\x99s home learning market in the UK trade, school and globally. They can swiftly ascertain opportunities for acquiring and shaping content. They can lead project teams to create print or digital products to meet agreed title count, using internal and external resource, and can maintain an exciting product development programme.

Key accountabilities of this role include:

• Bring in-depth knowledge of the market to shape list strategy with Head of Home Learning, shape and structure products across the portfolio and ensure they are as market oriented as possible
• Lead on project initiatives, project manage print and digital projects, coordinate schedules and tasks with team to problem solve and meet key deliverables
• Collaborate internally with publishing, sales and marketing teams in trade and school divisions to create cross channel propositions
• Lead internal creative sessions, focusing on the development of new, innovative and inclusive product from concept through to completion
• Manage financials of designated list to maintain budgets, accurately present costs, and meet revenue targets
• Employ strong contract negotiation skills to work with agents, authors and freelance contributors, negotiate rates and facilitate agreements, manage, brief, and quality control deliverables
• Demonstrate/maintain high editorial standards and monitor quality

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

About You

If you\xe2\x80\x99re a Publisher with a passion for education and print/digital publishing looking for a new challenge in a supportive, creative and innovative team, then this opportunity will interest you.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• Understand learning needs of parents and children, early years, primary and secondary school age, with ability to see how ideas may play out in the market place
• Experience of developing inclusive content in different formats (print and digital), with internal and external resource, and for differing end-users (e.g., children, parents, schools, overseas markets)
• Experience of publishing home learning activity content
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

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 of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, 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.

Oxford University Press