Managing Editor

Job Title: Managing Editor

Location: Warsaw (Hybrid Working Model)

Organisation: Macmillan Education

Application Deadline: 4th September 2025

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Short Summary of the Division
As part of the Publishing Operations function the Delivery team is responsible forensuring the high-quality on-time and within budget delivery of print and digitalcomponents and materials for our ELT courses working from final/developed contentto handover of final files and go live. Working in close collaboration with crossfunctional teams they implement Delivery best practices workflows tools andtemplates to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of the publishing process. Theteam is also involved in product development and post-publication maintenance and iscritical to the success of our projects.

About the Role

As a Managing Editor you will be responsible for the delivery of high quality on-time and within-budget printand digital components for our ELT courses. You will manage components and assetsfrom final/developed content to handover of final files and go live working across bothinternally resourced and fully outsourced (packaged) projects. You may also berequired to provide some editorial support during product/content development andpost-publication maintenance and updates.
You will work closely with colleagues in Publishing Operations and across otherfunctions as part of a project team to ensure that titles are delivered on time to briefand within budget.

Role Responsibilities

Project work: Work across assigned number of projects and components (fromsample materials to sign off and project closure) Track all relevant tasksassigned to you closely across your project schedules anticipating and mitigatingany risks or delays and keeping the Project Manager and wider team fully updatedon work in progress Manage the Delivery workflow from approved content through to publication/go live (including manuscript preparation editing andfinalising artwork briefs and audio scripts participating in copy-editing andproofreading (as required)) Work with Publishing to create and maintainacceptance criteria (for packagers on packaged projects) approvals forms stylesheets page plans media logs archive handover documents and authoringtemplates mapping documents and other key editorial documentation Coordinate proof circulations and digital releases collating feedback and managingqueries Provide course marketing material as required Participate in post publication evaluation meetings to inform improvements in process Ensure best practice is followed at all times acting as an advocate for Delivery best practice and suggesting improvements as necessary.

Project set up: Review and feed back to Project Managers for Delivery tasks onproject schedules as part of the team-wide schedule validation process.

Financial management: Support the preparation of Delivery budgets byproviding cost estimates for Delivery tasks on assigned components and assets atproject approval stages Monitor and track the Delivery budget for your assignedcomponents and assets alerting the Project Manager and Editorial Manager to anyconcerns/risks of overspend and raise Change Requests in a timely manner asrequired Proactively look for ways to drive down Delivery costs at all times Provide Delivery spend figures on your assigned components and assets asrequired.

Freelance and supplier management: Engage brief and proactively manageDelivery team suppliers according to the needs of the project (including reviews ofsupplier/freelancer work for quality control purposes) Follow supplierengagement best practice and policy (including the use of preferred suppliers andrates where available as well as following all contracting and PO guidelines) Ensure contracts and POs are prepared and circulated for approval in a timelymanner Identify onboarding requirements and facilitate required systems set up(following agreed guidelines and workflow) and training Ensure all tasks arecompleted to brief alerting the project team of any issues working to mitigate asrequired. Escalate issues to line manager Editorial Manager as appropriate Actively look for and suggest ways to utilise suppliers to mitigate resource issues on your projects.

Internal systems and processes: Share knowledge and experience with thewider Delivery team via team meetings Actively look for and suggest ways toimprove workflows project development and delivery to promote continuousimprovement Validate and feed into department and business-wide processsystems and workflow initiatives on behalf of Delivery as requested EnsureDelivery team data on company systems is accurate and all required detail anddocuments are uploaded in a timely fashion.

Market awareness and training: Understand Macmillan Educations publishingstrategy and the companys business goals Keep up to date on ELT and generalpublishing issues particularly ELT/EFL in an international context As requestedwork with the Delivery management team on developing/delivering training andsupport and participate in training (as determined by your line manager) forcontinuing professional development.

Additional tasks: Complete additional tasks as defined and agreed with your linemanager and Delivery management team.

Experience Skills & Qualifications:
Educated to degree level or equivalent combination of education and experience
A genuine interest in ELT/language learning (a recognised ELT/EFL qualification and/or teaching experience would be an advantage)
Experience of working on large-scale print and digital publishing projects and simultaneously managing multiple components and assets through delivery
Experience of working across multiple regions in cross functional project teams
Strong organisational and editorial skills an eye for detail and commitment to accuracy
Competent with widely-used office applications (InCopy and/or InDesign an advantage as well as experience of content management systems (CMS))

Commercial and financial awareness able to track budgets
Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload
Ability to deal with and resolve ambiguity
Excellent written and oral communication
Able to work independently as well as part of a team
Experience of working with company systems and data and willingness to learn and fully engage with all such systems
Experience of supplier/freelancer management
A positive attitude and commitment to the aims of the department

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