Manager, Editorial Job Description
Manager, editorial
provides full project management across marketing, web, marketing services, editorial, legal, product development, publishing and external consultants and freelancers.
Manager, Editorial Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Lead daily project standup meetings and drive day-to-day progress
Serve as an internal consultant/subject-matter expert on AP editorial workflows, standards and practices
Serve as a primary liaison between Editorial and Technology
Working with Content Director, develop cross-channel content strategy and editorial calendar
Administrative oversight
Writing/editing and basic fact-checking of investment commentary
Manage content for '40 Act mutual fund reports
Plan and manage further automation of the commentary process
Along with Director, support strategic goals of the Brand by monitoring all copy for consistency of “Clinique voice” and working closely with Vice President, Copy and Copy department to maintain consistency of tone across all projects, supporting key “High Touch” concept of “branded message threaded across all media.”
Edit all phases of print advertising and collateral paying attention to the use of Clinique language and messaging that will be carried across all related Print, Packaging, Merchandising, TV and Digital projects
Manager, Editorial Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Manager, Editorial
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, ELS
Education for Manager, Editorial
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the manager, editorial job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Journalism, Communications, English, Education, Marketing, Business, Publishing, Graduate, Writing, Public Relations
Skills for Manager, Editorial
Desired skills for manager, editorial include:
Content Management Systems and Editorial
Infrastructure development and complex databases systems
Scientific publishing
SharePoint
InCopy
K4
MVPD
Marketing and business management
OTT
SVOD publishing procedures
Desired experience for manager, editorial includes:
Be adept at working on the Internet, and know how to layout and publish stories
Photoshop skills and video production skills would be a plus
All team leads require ability to partner with Design on creative concept development
Prior project management skills within an editorial environment
Knowledge and familiarity with fashion and design subject matter
Conscientious communication skills
Manager, Editorial Examples
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Manager, Editorial Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a manager, editorial. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager, editorial
- Working alongside the Reversioning Production Management team, and the Reversioning Managers, you will help make talent suggestions and negotiations on rates and schedules, ensuring maximum value from the voice over, facilities and customisation budgets
- May prepare project reports for management, clients, or others
- Trafficking copy, production and proofreading projects within the copy team
- Managing and tracking copy projects while partnering closely with the copy chief, creative director and creative/production managers to ensure strategic alignment
- Developing and maintaining the editorial calendar and ensuring work is delivered on time
- Schedule/assign resources to maintain a balanced workload
- Reviewing and revising content created by writers to maintain consistency with communications standards and style guides, and corporate goals for simplified member communications
- Motivating, leading and managing a team of Editorial Rights Assistants located globally
- Implementing new policies and processes for rights acquisition
- Managing workflows for tracking and storing rights documents
Qualifications for manager, editorial
- Series 7 and 66 licenses or willingness to earn qualifications upon hire
- Evidence of strategic thinking ability
- College degree with 4+ years of work experience
- Ability to manage high volume of projects and meet deadlines
- Knowledge of Creative development process helpful
- Knowledge of TV and video production process helpful
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of manager, editorial. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, editorial
- Develop and monitor project budget, in tandem with Director, create vendor contracts, and process payments
- Function as liaison between Editorial and Production, Design, Technology, Manufacturing, and Finance departments
- Define, oversee, and manage the digital image process and workflow, including requirement definition, selections, permissions, conversion, production, and delivery for implementation on all web products
- Lead multiple medium to large size projects from inception to completion
- Create copy for template-based requests (invitations, POS signs)
- Stakeholder management & communication- Works across Elsevier strategy, product, technology, operations and editorial businesses to build and nurture relationships that enable the group to engage the customer throughout the value chain
- Data-driven - A great head for figures whether scrutinising financial forecasts, analytics data, marketing plans or API calls
- Maintain project management overview, working with Acquisitions Editor(s), book contributors, authors and editors, and production colleagues, raising red flags as required and collaborating on problem solving with the AE/Publisher as required
- Track and manage a large number of projects at the same time
- Ensure each stage of project life cycle including delivery of author/contributor/editor instructions and editor/ contributor payments, material from contributors and marketing questionnaires are delivered in a timely fashion
Qualifications for manager, editorial
- Excellent English Language writing skills for script editing, programme proposals and treatments
- Be good under pressure, and managing high volumes and tight deadlines, working outside of office hours if necessary to ensure delivery
- Must have a “customer focus” in working with the team to conceptualize marketable product
- Strong numeracy skills, including and understanding of statistics
- Strong technical competency and computer skills coupled with a good knowledge and utilization of Microsoft Excel
- Work with Chief Marketing Officer to develop branding and strategic marketing concepts related to copy (website, emails, retail signs/collateral, press releases )
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of manager, editorial. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager, editorial
- Ensure all content is on-brand, consistent in terms of style, quality, and tone of voice and optimized for search and discovery
- Keep at the forefront of new channel capabilities and trends
- Responsible for assigning and managing writing and editing projects across all media channels including digital, social and traditional media, email, branded content, websites, print ads, mobile, and help manage priorities to ensure all work is completed on time
- Lead formal and informal internal and cross-functional critiques
- Using standard reporting practices communicate progress with all titles to Delivery Content Manager/AE/Publishers as processes dictate
- Works with scientists to draft manuscripts and abstracts suitable for publication
- Serves as an important mentor in teaching scientists how to write
- Helps write and edit grant applications and scientific reports
- Coordinate financial and marketing issues with journal publisher and the editor-in-chief
- Works with staff to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and clarify project goals
Qualifications for manager, editorial
- Strategic thinking to help transform business strategy into compelling consumer messages
- Fluency in German and English, both orally and written
- Proactive, high level of initiative and the confidence to act
- Strong organisational skills, working with tight deadlines
- Minimum BA/BS in a Project Management, Business Management, Computer Science, Logistics, or education-related discipline
- Familiarity with educational publishing is a plus
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a manager, editorial. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for manager, editorial
- Ensure that published guidelines and collateral materials are developed with a high level of quality regarding organization, structure, clarity, accuracy, format, style and consistency
- Plan, facilitate and lead program launch meetings and bi-weekly status meetings, manage program component list, and provide weekly project status reports to the project team
- Serve as a point of contact and resource to less experience members of the team
- Reviewing creative briefs, thinking your way through them, and refining your copy through revisions, big and small changes, and shifts in marketing needs
- Presenting your copy for review with creative and marketing teams
- Equal mix of collaborating (with marketing managers and graphic designers) and working independently to manage your own time and projects
- On-site, approximately 40 hours per week in our midtown Manhattan office
- Reports to Senior Editorial Manager
- Lead the Manuscript Assistant team
- Lead the Publishing Assistant team
Qualifications for manager, editorial
- Able to present program plans, including the marketing story, finished products to senior management, sales, and customers
- Working knowledge and understanding of modern languages (French, German, Spanish, or Italian)
- Demonstrated ability to work with large volumes of data without compromising accuracy or efficiency
- Proficiency in using the Microsoft applications suite
- Experience working with content management systems and digital assets databases
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Smartsheet, on Mac
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of manager, editorial. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager, editorial
- Work with stakeholders to measure KPI’s, set benchmarks, and assist in determining optimal pricing and bundling strategies
- Write reports on the project for key stakeholders including milestone reporting, bi-weekly and monthly updates
- Be responsible in a variety of projects, ensuring quality and timeliness of editorial production
- Editorial Skill and Published Products
- Meet (virtually and in person) with the various operating countries (OpCo s) content teams and other stakeholders (Product, Marketplace, Legal, GTM, Analytics) to understand the company goals and how the content group fits in
- Immerse yourself in competitors’ products and relevant, snackable, content providers
- Own and publish monthly internal email focused on developments and insights on Content and Technology
- Spot editorial and content trends and respond to them in a timely manner
- Establish, track, and report progress on content metrics and KPIs for leadership and the entire company
- Assigns and edits copy for projects
Qualifications for manager, editorial
- Experience training and developing staff, and delivering constructive feedback
- Experience creating strong online content
- An expert knowledge of SEO
- Ability to adapt to multiple editorial styles depending on the client
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment within an open office
- Minimum 3-5 years of work experience in communications