Head of Production Office

Frontiers

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Update day: 27-02-2024

Location: Lausanne Vaud VD

Category: Marketing / PR Printing / Publishing

Industry: Research Services

Position: Director

Job type: Full-time

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We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who We Are

Frontiers is an award-winning open science platform and leading open access scholarly publisher.

We are one of the largest and most cited publishers globally. To date, our 200,000 freely available research articles have received more than 1 billion views and downloads and 2 million citations. Our journals span science, health, humanities and social sciences, engineering, and sustainability. And we continue to expand into new academic disciplines so more researchers can publish open access.

Be part of the publishing revolution and help us transform the way research is published, evaluated, and communicated to the world.

The Role

We are looking for a driven and target-oriented professional to join our team as a new Head of Production. Reporting into the Director of Publishing Operations you will be responsible for driving progress towards targets, streamlining and increasing the efficiency of our production department and leading a high performing team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Line manage and lead a number of Production Portfolio Managers. Be responsible for staff recruitment, team organization and training organisation for team members.
  • Drive progress according to targets, ensuring that the team meets the agreed Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and defined performance plans, with a focus on ensuring quality standards during the peer review process.
  • Optimise workflows, updates guidelines and liaise with your line manager to define development requirements with the Product Management team.
  • Draft new procedures, templates and policies as required, and review them with your line manager.
  • Oversee key projects to improve team efficiency, processes and inter-team collaborations.
  • Ensure that guidelines and quality standards are met within the Production team and that the peer review process is performed in a timely manner.
  • Maintain ongoing communication between departments to foster an environment of continuous improvement and optimisation of review processes.

About You
  • Significant experience in a similar role within academic/STM publishing is essential.
  • Solid track record of delivering projects in a target driven environment.
  • Demonstrated experience with effective line management, leading and developing a team to be successful.
  • A target driven mindset with a proactive attitude and a strong commercial awareness.
  • Aptitude for digesting large amounts of information and reacting effectively to urgent situations.
  • Excellent communication skills including demonstrating influence and resilience and leading teams through change.
  • Sound and mature judgment; decisive and tactful when working with multiple stakeholders.
  • Technical proficiency, with hands-on skills using current software.
  • Excellent command of the English language (written and verbal).

Application Process

Your application must include:
  • Your latest CV and a tailored cover letter in English
  • Your current notice period

Benefits

With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:

100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination – including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.
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Deadline: 12-04-2024

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