Good Luck Publishers is one of the leading Publishers in school books today. We publish books both on ICSE, CBSE and State Boards. We cover over 7,000 schools across the country, providing textbooks, digital content and teacher training.
JOB PURPOSE:
The Senior Editor will be primarily responsible for the overall publishing plan, delivery of books on time for his/her pub list.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
A Master’s degree in English.
At least 6-8 years experience in book publishing or allied fields.
Ability to multi-task—budgeting, commissioning, scheduling, editing, organizing reviews, liaising with author, reviewers and in-house teams, content development,
etc.
Open to travelling for supporting the sales and marketing teams.
Comfortable using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Good interpersonal, time and team management skills.
Ability to keep to production schedule.
Ability to liaise with all departments.
Ability to manage a team.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
To help in the planning and execution of the publishing programme in keeping with the market trends.
To maintain cordial and valuable working relations with various authors, reviewers, in house teams and freelancers.
To drive the commissioning process and liaise with the author(s) and editor(s) in response to feedback from reviewers and also in response to studying the competition for improving the quality of each manuscript with a distinct competitive advantage over other publishers’ books To draw up schedules for every manuscript being handled in the list and to work within the stipulated time frames.
To coordinate and monitor work of the commissioning and development editors based on schedules and budgets in consultation with the Director.
To visualize and deliver the final product working closely with the Design,