Role: Managing Editor

Location: Dordrecht - Hybrid, Permanent

Closing date: Thursday 16th of July 2026

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About the Role

The Content Acquisition Team is a division within the Publishing Performance & Intelligence group providing expertise and dedicated resources to support the growth of commissioned content across the SN Journal portfolio.

The Managing Editor will work with commissioning editors, publishers, external editors and our operational partners to organise and manage collections on behalf of key parts of the SN Journals portfolio. They will be responsible for the project management of multiple live collections and will work closely with our operational teams to provide an enhanced level of oversight for commissioned articles.

Increasing commissioned content is an essential part of our strategy to grow our Springer Nature journal portfolios and this role ensures we can do this at scale while maintaining an excellent level of quality and author service.

This is a hybrid role based in Dordrecht. This location supports effective collaboration with the team and aligns with business needs.

Role Responsibilities

• Project management of live collections - Project Management, Operational Excellence
• Support Commissioning Editor/Guest Editor and Authors with queries - Balances Stakeholder, Communicates Effectively, Action-Oriented
• Engagement with the Marketing department - Communicates Effectively, Balances Stakeholder
• Contact point for Guest Editor throughout the collection - Builds Trust, Communicates Effectively, Balances Stakeholder
• Reporting on Performance of Collection - Data analytics / Quantitative Skills, Operational Excellence
• Contact point for Guest Editor and operations - Builds Trust, Communicates Effectively, Balances Stakeholder
• Monitoring of content flow and delivery against collection submission window - Project Management, Action-Oriented
• Enhanced oversight to ensure service and quality and key escalation point - Quality Management, Directs Work
• Responsible for filtering of MS and general oversight that excellent peer review is in place for commissioned content - Quality Management, Operational Excellence
• Assign new submissions to assistant editor and support as needed - Directs Work, Communicates Effectively
• Monitor turn around times (TATs) - Data analytics / Quantitative Skills, Operational Excellence
• With the Editorial Support Advisor team contribute to robust workflow documentation to be used across all portfolios - Publishing Workflows & Systems, Project Management, Operational Excellence
• Point of contact for production and other queries. - Communicates Effectively, Balances Stakeholder

Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

• Solid experience of journal publishing workflows, specifically around submit to accept
• Good understanding of publishing ethics and integrity issues
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including written and in person/on the phone
• Good administrative and organisational skills
• Strong English skills in written and spoken language
• Ability to multi-task
• Has a sound understanding of the balance between operational efficiency and editorial rigour
• Bachelor's Degree minimum

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Job Posting End Date:

16-07-2026