Peer Review Portfolio Manager

Madrid - Spain

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who we are

We are on a mission to make all science open enabling the research community to develop thesolutions we all need to live healthy lives on ahealthy planet.

Frontiers is one of the worlds largest and most impactful research publishers dedicated to making peer-reviewed quality-certified science openly accessible. Our articles have been viewed 4 billion times reflecting the power of research that is open for all.

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we can offer you

We believe shared in-person time strengthens team culture collaboration and productivity and helps teams move faster together. Thats why we hire office-based roles.

While we value flexibility we also offer a remote working policy that depending on the role allows some days working from home (and in some cases other locations).

We provide a range of benefits across our global locations including but not limited to:

4 additional wellbeing days in addition to existing annual leave allowance
Access to learning platforms and dedicated learning & development time
A range of wellbeing initiatives including free online yoga classes and an employee assistance plan
Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer
Additional benefits depending on your location (e.g. pension plan and private medical care)

Key Responsibilities

Aligns and collaborates with the Head of Department to ensure the overall success of a portfolio of journals through meeting strategic goals and key-results of the portfolio (peer review time increase of acceptances customer satisfaction).
Recommends strategic plans and initiatives to the Head of Department for the development of the portfolio by streamlining the peer review process ensuring the quality of peer review operations and successfully moving manuscripts through the peer review pipeline.
Oversees the daily operations of the portfolio providing timely support to the Review Operations Managers.
Ensures portfolio-wide alignment and collaboration internally (among the Review Operations Managers and their teams) and across matrix teams.
Collaborates with internal departments to ensure the efficiency and scalability of the portfolio operations.
Represents the portfolios interests to internal and external stakeholders.
Oversees key projects to improve portfolio efficiency processes and inter team collaboration.
Monitors progress towards targets (at the Portfolio level) including review time acceptances (monthly and weekly) and customer satisfaction
Leads team objectives and key results and defines strategies for reaching monthly and weekly objectives in collaboration with Review Operations Manager.
Responsible for generating ideas for future Product Development
Reporting into the Head of Review Operations and responsiblefor presentingthe portfolios developmentto them and the Director of Publishing Operations
Recruit on-board coach and provide continued professional development to the Review Operations Managers within the portfolio.
Represent the company to external stakeholders.
Expected outcome (nature of impact) how do you measure results / success)
Boost journal performance and acceptance targets
Provide both an enhanced and consistent customer service.
Improved team alignment
Faster peer review process
Decreasing time to accept articles/ Better performance against the target
Removal of bottlenecks from the process

Autonomy in Problem solving

Liaise with internal teams to ensure process alignment.
Resolve key issues within the portfolio (e.g. matrix misalignment False negative rejections)
Main Lead for team objectives and key-results
Main Lead for the strategic planning for the portfolio
Take corrective measures on progress towards target(s)
Answers to escalated Complaints and Inquiries from the Chief Editors and VIP Authors

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Equal opportunity statement

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 employees from more than 50 different nations our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.

Required Experience:

Manager

Who we areWe are on a mission to make all science open enabling the research community to develop thesolutions we all need to live healthy lives on ahealthy planet.Frontiers is one of the worlds largest and most impactful research publishers dedicated to making peer-reviewed quality-certified scienc...

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