- Lead the Open Access Journal Publishing department and help develop and implement the overall publishing strategy.
- Provide hands-on leadership to the journal production team, working closely with journal stakeholders, editors, clients, and internal teams.
- Manage and monitor the end-to-end journal production workflow, ensuring efficient coordination across editorial, copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, quality control, and final delivery.
- Implement and continuously improve publishing processes, workflows, and quality standards to ensure journals are delivered on time and within agreed budgets.
- Take ownership of successful journal delivery in accordance with client requirements, SLAs, quality standards, and agreed timelines.
- Plan and organise team workloads, allocate resources effectively, and monitor production schedules to ensure timely delivery.
- Monitor team performance against agreed productivity, quality, turnaround time, and SLA targets.

Preferred candidate profile





- Established managerial experience as a Journal Manager, Publishing Manager, or Production Manager, preferably within academic publishing.
- Proven experience in leading and managing journal production teams and handling multiple journal titles simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of journal publishing and production workflows, particularly Open Access publishing.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities and tight publishing deadlines.
- Strong planning, coordination, prioritisation, and follow-up skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with editors, clients, authors, and internal teams.
- Versatile to work in a 2:00 PM 10:00 PM shift, as the role requires production delivery and stakeholder coordination up to approximately 10:00 PM.

📌 Assistant Manager / Manager - Journals Publishing (Chennai)
🏢 Perfect Digital Media Resources
📍 Chennai