Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Discover Journals

Location: Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing or Pune, Hybrid Working Model

About the role

The Discover Journals Series aims to support researchers in communicating and advancing discovery for a better world. We do this by providing a trusted environment in which researchers can quickly, easily and transparently share their discoveries, data and research stories.

We are seeking an Associate Editor/Senior Editor on our Discover journals to manage a portfolio of inclusive journals focused on integrity of our publication process, speed of review, and excellent author service. Reporting to an Executive Publisher, you will be responsible for the management, strategic development and success of the individual journals, liaising with internal staff, external journal editors, and the scientific community.

You will contribute to the success of the Discover Series by owning the journals and content development of a defined portfolio of journals, overseeing and supporting editorial handling of articles in various stages of the review process.



This is a dynamic and diverse role that will give you the opportunity to see content across a broad range of topics and contribute to the success of Discover as a whole.

Responsibilities

Content development SN-Operational Excellence
- Develop a journal development strategy for each journal in your portfolio, taking into account individual journal performance and development needs, as well as the overall strategy of the Discover Series
- Work with colleagues across the Journals group to support subject-specific strategy development at Springer Nature.
- Contribute ideas and supports collections pipeline managed by Content Acquisition team;
- Support commissioning for your journals

Peer review quality SN-Manuscript Assessment, SN-Critical Scientific Evaluation, SN-Decision Quality, SN-Scientific Comprehension
- Oversee the handling of the content published in the Discover Series journal

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