Associate Director, Publishing

🕒 September 16

🌐 United Kingdom, United States – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 £90k - £104k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🔬 Science

Education • Non-profit • Science

PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing. They cover all scientific disciplines with a focus on fundamental and applied research across life, health, sustainability, engineering, and technology, ensuring that research outputs are rigorous, reliable, and accessible to all.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic leadership for the PLOS journal portfolio • Align portfolio priorities, publishing investments, and journal development strategies with organizational goals and PLOS’s mission • Lead and develop a team of Publishers responsible for journal portfolio performance and strategic development • Serve as primary steward of portfolio-wide publishing performance • Translate organizational strategy into clear priorities and coordinate effectively across the organization • Use publishing data, financial information, market intelligence, and research community insight to guide strategic decisions, identify growth and innovation opportunities, and manage risks • Lead, develop, and support senior publishing professionals • Establish goals, priorities, and accountability measures • Provide coaching, professional development, succession planning, and performance management • Develop and implement portfolio-wide publishing strategy • Lead portfolio reviews and recommend journal positioning, growth opportunities, performance improvements, and future direction • Evaluate and develop new journals, products, services, and publishing models • Oversee publishing budgets and forecasts and allocate resources responsibly • Deputize for the Director, Publishing & Publishing Operations when appropriate • Build partnerships across Editorial, Publishing Operations, Sales & Global Publishing Development, Product, Technology, Marketing, Finance, Research Integrity, and other teams • Strengthen journal positioning, audience engagement, portfolio visibility, and demand generation with Marketing and Communications • Lead organizational change, culture development, cross-functional collaboration, and accountability

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience • Substantial experience launching Open Access journals from proposal to publication • Strong commercial and financial skills, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, business planning and P&L ownership • Substantial experience in STM publishing with progressively increased responsibility • Experience managing senior publishing professionals, or comparable portfolio leaders • Proven ability to develop and execute strategic plans that deliver measurable business and operational outcomes • Strong track record of leading and developing high-performing, geographically distributed teams • Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills across cultures, disciplines, and organizational functions • Dedication to open access and transforming scholarly communication, with a genuine interest in engaging productively with the scientific community • Preferred: Experience leading high-volume journal portfolios and/or megajournals • Prolonged periods stationary at a desk and working on a computer

🏖️ Benefits

• Private medical insurance • Life assurance • Income protection • Personal accident insurance • Pension with up to 10% employer match • 25 days holidays • Market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave • Birthday and three winter holidays days off • 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year • Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office • 401k with employer match (US) • Employee sponsored health, dental and vision insurance (US; Dental and Vision 100% employer paid) • Paid Vacation, 11 public holidays and sick leave (US) • Parental leave (US) • Short term and long term disability insurance (US) • Some national and international travel may be required • Some flexibility to work across time zones may be required

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