Journals Portfolio Manager

Company Description
**Informa **is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

**Taylor & Francis Group **produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. We aim to broaden thinking and advance understanding, providing academics and professionals with a platform to share ideas and realise their individual potential.

**Job Description**:
We have two exciting opportunities for Journals Portfolio Manager to join our global team As part of our strategic expansion, as a Portfolio Manager you will be responsible for the commercial development and relationship management with key stakeholders for our Environmental Science or Life Science portfolios.

A sense of autonomy is a huge plus since this team is international and you will be working within a globally based team (UK/US/APAC). While you’ll have interactions and regular meetings with international colleagues and editors, there will be times you'll have to work independently.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Creating and delivering plans to grow, develop and maximize the profitability of journals in the Environmental Sciences/Life Sciences
- Creating and delivering plans to grow, launch, develop, and maximize the impact and reach of a portfolio of journals
- Pro-actively managing the article pipeline to deliver against agreed service levels
- Developing new open access journal propositions based on strong market research and best practices
- Developing and sharing best practice around successful open access publishing within the team
- Encouraging in-depth and long-term relationships with current and potential publishing partners to maintain and protect current portfolio and create opportunities for further acquisitions
- Proactively commissioning content, building network of contacts and working with the Editorial team to build and deliver on commissioning plans to drive articles, special issues, and commissioned content to your journals
- Building, maintaining, and sharing thorough knowledge of market need and competitor activity to inform decisions on new journals and existing journal development
- Coordinating budgets, preparing financial projections, and leading the overall financial performance of the journals
- Representing the team and Taylor & Francis at external meetings and conferences as the need arises, both virtually and physically

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for**:

- Experience of managing a portfolio of Journals to meet business growth objectives/or equivalent
- A background in the Environmental Science/Life Sciences would be a bonus
- Experience of working with internal departments, publishing partners and Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Section Editors to effectively manage copy flow
- Being able to demonstrate understanding of the issues currently facing scholarly and academic publishing
- Project management experience and client relations experience from other industries or academia would also be advantageous
- Strong team-working skills, ability to collaborate, work with proactively with others, and to share knowledge and best practice
- Experience of working across departments within a dynamic, international organisation
- Resilience, self-reliance, and resourcefulness, to drive customer and commercial value
- Excellent communication skills, oral, presentation and written
- Willingness and motivated to travel to and participate in external events and networks

Additional Information

At Taylor & Francis we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. You will be joining a thriving business, working alongside an exceptional group of people. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about.

**What we offer in return**:

- An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
- 20 days(pro-rata for first year) annual leave per year, plus an extra day off for your birthday
- 4 paid volunteering days each year
- Paid sick leave of 14 days
- Under the local company’s healthcare insurance plan with an option for the participation of other family members at the employee’s expense
- Employee assistance programme - offering 24/7 well-being support
- Performance bonus
- Share Match - plan that matches every company share purchased with two free shares
- Annual health screening for employee and spouse, optical and medical care

**Location**:

- Being a global company, we currently have capacity for this role to be based in either of the following locations: Singapore, Japan, South Korea,