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• Lead and manage a team of editorial professionals, ensuring high-quality service delivery.• Oversee offshore editorial services, implementing workflow improvements for enhanced productivity and accuracy.• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to define project requirements, timelines, and quality expectations.• Monitor team performance, conduct performance reviews, and provide feedback to improve skills.• Mentor and train team members on editorial best practices, style guides, and client-specific guidelines.• Forecast resource needs based on project pipelines and business growth projections.• Analyze editorial performance metrics to inform staffing needs, training gaps, and workflow adjustments.• Manage departmental budgets, ensuring cost-effective resource allocation while maintaining high editorial standards.• Track customer complaints and develop corrective action plans to improve client satisfaction.• Lead recruitment efforts for copyeditors, hiring both senior professionals and fresh talent.• Infuse Gen AI into copyediting and content writing processes to differentiate the company.

• Coordinate with managing editors by supervising existing editorial workflows and designing new workflows for leading US and UK publishers.• Work closely with editorial, production, sales, marketing, design, and operations teams and facilitate communication between all departments.• Recruit copyeditors (seniors and freshers).• Attend departmental meetings with high-level publishing and production staff; manage client calls and maintain rapport with clients.• Standardize the quality review process; improve collaborative working.• Help lay out plans to reduce editorial costs.• Improve profit margins of the department.• Track customer complaints and prepare comprehensive corrective and preventive action points.• Inspire, engage, and connect with editorial service professionals.

• Manage multiple copyediting teams.• Monitor team performance and share metrics.• Analyse overall team capacity.• Plan, track, and implement team strategy.• Review copyediting samples.• Manage a team of editorial freelancers for niche editorial projects.

• Manage offshore editorial projects.• Lead a team of copyeditors and allocate editorial projects according to their expertise.• Plan and manage resource allocation strategy.• Review copyediting samples.• Implement custom feedback mechanism.

• Line edit technical manuscripts and book chapters.• Develop and maintain editorial style sheets.• Train copyeditors.• Make decisions on house-style issues.• Organize team meetings to share client feedback and discuss best working practices.

• Manage end-to-end production of academic books.• Prepare and monitor production schedules.• Collaborate and coordinate with both internal and external process owners to ensure completion of client requirements.• Monitor and manage project spending to ensure that they are within the allocated budget.• Manage scope to ensure the publisher’s commitments are achieved within the agreed timeline, cost, and quality parameters.• Conduct cross-functional tasks, includingspot quality checks, on final deliverables to the client.

• Copyedit book chapters and articles for leading academic publishers while adhering to strict deadlines.• Write abstracts for book chapters.• Correct typos, inaccuracies, and othererrors to produce clean, clear, error-freecopies.• Manage my personal editorial workflow.