OVERVIEW This position provides coordinating, operational, administrative, and analytical support to editorial staff in the Global Humanities & Social Science (HSS) and the Science, Tech, and Medical (STM) hybrid journals team. We are looking for a candidate who is eager to learn about and grow within the academic publishing industry, and is able to quickly pick up new information, think critically and creatively, and engage meaningfully with the daily work. Please note that this position does not focus on writing or editing of our content as it primarily supports the business, technical, and administrative aspects of journal publishing. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Editorial Specialist position is responsible for optimization and productivity-based work, accountability enforcement, and strategic organization. Specialists are expected to utilize these skills in their support work and in orchestrating, facilitating, analyzing, coordinating, interpreting, implementing, and maintaining tasks and projects. The responsibilities for this role include:



Managing a dedicated portfolio of 10-15 journals, which may include but isn’t limited to: Relationship management: maintaining a valuable rapport with our external partners in journal publication, including journal editors, society staff (for journal sponsoring or leasing organizations, where relevant), etc. Performance maintenance and development: ensuring journals are up to quality standards by maintaining abstracting/indexing, supporting good publication/research ethics, resolving conflicts, marketing effectively, training journal editors, responding to author/editor/reviewer queries as needed, managing peer review benchmarks, managing circulation and pricing, liaising with peer review team, liaising with production team, reporting, and related editorial tasks that support journal health. Financial maintenance: balancing journal budgets through P&Ls;, delivering royalty statements, exercising business judg

📌 Editorial Specialist (Haryana)
🏢 Sage
📍 Haryana