Manager, Peer Review Excellence

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AIP Publishing

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1940

📱 Media

🔬 Science

Media • Science

AIP Publishing is a scholarly publisher dedicated to the dissemination of groundbreaking research in the physical sciences. The company offers a wide range of publications including journals, books, conference proceedings, and databases, focusing on topics that push the boundaries of science and technology. AIP Publishing emphasizes open access and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in science, supporting researchers, librarians, and publishing partners worldwide. Through its commitment to open science, AIP Publishing strives to make scientific discoveries accessible and impactful for a global audience.

📋 Description

• Provide leadership for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of peer review workflows across the journal portfolio. • Guide the design, implementation, standardization, and continuous improvement of peer review workflows across the journal portfolio. • Serve as a subject matter expert for peer review workflow design, ensuring workflows support editorial quality, research integrity, and publishing best practices. • Identify operational bottlenecks, maintain workflow documentation and standards, and drive process improvements. • Serve as a key leader for vendor-supported editorial operations and peer review services, including vendor onboarding, performance management, SLA compliance, business reviews, and operational escalations. • Develop performance dashboards and identify opportunities to improve service quality, efficiency, and value. • Serve as a key leader in operational activities supporting manuscript tracking system migrations, including workflow design, business process documentation, system configuration, testing, operational readiness, training, and change management. • Manage implementation risks, stakeholder coordination, and post-launch optimization. • Drive workflow standardization, automation, process redesign, and implementation of new editorial technologies to improve operational effectiveness and modernize editorial infrastructure. • Assess operational impacts of policy and process changes. • Develop dashboards and reporting to monitor workflow performance, vendor SLAs, operational risks, and key metrics. • Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support continuous improvement and decision making. • Lead, develop, and support staff by fostering collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and effective resource planning. • Partner with internal teams and external partners to lead cross-functional initiatives, align workflow standards, support change management, and represent editorial workflow requirements across strategic projects.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field. • 7+ years of experience in scholarly publishing, editorial operations, and peer review management, including working across multiple journals or publishing portfolios. • Experience leading workflow automation, operational improvement initiatives, and manuscript tracking system implementations or migrations. • Experience managing editorial office vendors and service providers. • Strong analytical, process-oriented, and project management capabilities. • Demonstrated ability to use operational data to drive continuous improvement and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• A remote workforce with staff based in NY, NJ, CT, MD, VA, PA, MA, RI, or Washington, DC, who meet in person for collaboration, training, strategic planning — and fun! • Generous paid time off and paid sick and safe leave • Flexible Work Schedule • Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits • Exceptional retirement benefits • Monthly remote stipend • Training and Tuition assistance • Employee Assistance Program