Job Description:
We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.
About the Role:
The Assistant Publisher is responsible for the maintenance and development of a list of journals across a related subject area. This role involves evaluating the performance of the program in relation to company and department objectives, managing editor performance, and maintaining relationships with scientific editors and board members..
Job Responsibilities
Content Growth : Meet objectives regarding content growth, including submissions, acceptances, and published articles.
Editor Management : Maintain a network of scientific editors and board members, engage with them regularly to build awareness, and gather feedback, and manage day-to-day journal and editor performance through regular meetings.
Contractual Relationships : Negotiate and manage contractual relationships with journal editors, set performance targets, and rotate editors as directed by senior team members. Participate in interviews and make recommendations on the appointment of editors.
Reporting : Organize, maintain, and report on activities to the Associate Director and Senior Director in a timely manner.
Collaboration : Contribute to the delivery of external reporting, end-to-end publishing services, and title-level business growth through collaboration with internal colleagues across multiple publishing units.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Conceptual knowledge of trends in research and research publishing
- Problem-solving skills, using existing processes to solve routine problems and maximize potential in own program
- Communication skills to present changes required to align own titles with strategic priorities
- Open to receiving instruction, guidance and overall direction from manager
- Ability to create and deliver presentations with impact
Learning mindset
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We power infinite possibilities.
For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere.
We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.
Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.
Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact [email protected] for assistance.
We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.
We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.
Salary Range:
27,400 GBP to 37,333 GBP

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