Associate Director, Publishing

🕒 October 7

🌐 United Kingdom, Germany, +1 more countries – Remote

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇩🇪 Germany – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $85k - $157k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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PLOS

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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, aligning 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 and translate organizational strategy into priorities. • Use publishing data, financial information, market intelligence, and research community insight to guide decisions, identify growth and innovation opportunities, and manage risks. • Establish goals, priorities, accountability measures, coaching, professional development, succession planning, and performance management for direct reports. • Develop and implement portfolio-wide publishing strategy and differentiated value propositions. • Lead portfolio reviews and recommendations on journal positioning, growth, performance, and future direction. • Evaluate and develop new journals, products, services, and publishing models. • Translate organizational strategy into portfolio priorities, objectives, and plans. • Oversee publishing budgets and forecasts and allocate resources responsibly. • Deputize for the Director, Publishing & Publishing Operations when appropriate. • Build relationships with editors, researchers, institutions, societies, partner organizations, and cross-functional teams. • Partner across Editorial, Publishing Operations, Sales, Global Publishing Development, Product, Technology, Marketing, Finance, and Research Integrity. • Support effective journal policies, processes, services, and quality standards. • Strengthen journal positioning, audience engagement, portfolio visibility, and demand generation. • Drive culture change, cross-functional collaboration, organizational alignment, and accountable change management.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. • Business problem solver – operates with curiosity to get to the root of the business problem to ensure the ultimate solution is grounded in PLOS’s strategy and mission. • 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. • Some national and international travel may be required. • Some flexibility to work across time zones may be required.

🏖️ Benefits

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

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