• Lead and grow the ghostwriting, editorial, creative, and manufacturing teams.• Facilitate effective and efficient publishing processes and results.• Serve as an active member on company leadership committees and provide mentorship to publishing team.• Work with finance team and senior leadership to oversee publishing budgets.• Monitor all active production schedules, confirming adherence to timing and budget and handling resource conflict resolution.• Remain knowledgeable of publishing industry trends.

• Manage six person project management and print buying department, in addition to the responsibilities of Senior Project Manager.• Serve as an active member on company leadership committees and provide mentorship to production staff.• Collaborate with design and editorial leads to strategize workflows, refine production operations, and create project efficiencies.• Work with accounting team to oversee print and electronic publications budgets.• Monitor all active production schedules, confirming adherence to timing and budget and handling resource conflict resolution.• Manage printing process with vendors for frontlist and backlist titles, ensuring print quality and reconciling actual costs.• Remain aware and knowledgeable of all industry trends and production models.

• Manage production process and lifecycle for 20+ active titles seasonally, from manuscript submission to publication.• Serve as production point-of-contact, leading day-to-day communications with author(s), vendors, and internal teams to maintain effective and clear communication between stakeholders.• Create and enforce book production deadlines, managing all internal resource concerns and author requests to confirm that production deliverables and milestones remain within defined schedule and scope of work.• Traffic all stages of proof, printing, and shipping, ensuring quality and timeliness of all deliverables.• Liaise go-to-market strategy requirements for taking projects to publication, working directly with vendors and internal team.• Track resource allocation needs for author consulting, editorial, and design leads, and manage the transition process into distribution and marketing stages in advance of publication.• Oversee freelance service editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, indexers, and designers on a project basis.

• Led all aspects of corporate and social event strategy and management for several industry-leading clients.• Managed events with budgets ranging from $20,000 to over $1,000,000 and attendance between 15 to over 5,000.• Identified client prospects, communicated event management capabilities, and developed and presented program proposals.• Engaged with clients and client stakeholders to develop event roadmap and milestones, and ensured defined deadlines were met. • Established and managed event budgets and sponsorship opportunities based on goals, providing direction and recommendations.• Owned venue and vendor selections, contract negotiations, invoicing, and event partner relationships.• Coordinated communication, travel, transportation, security, food/beverage, audio/visual, pre-event and on-site creative materials, and registration requirements for clients and event attendees.• Oversaw on-site event management and all vendor and staffing procedures.• Created, developed, and distributed client and attendee communications and promotions through various channels.• Calculated post-event summation to determine successes, ROI, future enhancements, and follow-up communications.

• Shaped and directed social media initiatives focused on increasing consumer engagement, interest, and awareness.• Wrote promotional copy for social media initiatives and merchandising campaigns, maintaining editorial standards and best practices.• Managed social media flow of information to consumers for key products and relevant company initiatives.• Developed and implemented marketing communications and promotions to increase consumer sales and member engagement.• Conceived specific promotions and editorial copy for key member and non-member consumer segments.• Optimized product selection and consumer communication in email and website promotions, exceeding revenue and margin goals.• Defined targeting capabilities and on-site features with IT and CX teams to enrich online experience and engage consumers.• Built-out on-site promotional pages and sales incentives via proprietary systems tools.

• Responsible for title marketing project management for 200 – 300 annual releases.• Served as liaison between publishing office, editorial department, Consumer Marketing Group, and Sales Division.• Determined marketing needs for all media, both B2C and B2B, in coordination with Consumer Marketing Group.• Strategized with publishing office executives on seasonal title budgets.• Developed and implemented digital, retail, and print marketing campaigns within budget.• Worked with national bestselling authors such as Stephen King, Colm Tóibín, and Jeannette Walls on creation of author websites and personal promotional opportunities (including social media efforts, appearances, and meetings with distributors).• Advanced relationships with account buyers, marketing managers, booksellers, entertainment and media companies/websites.• Supervised creation of marketing campaign presentations, marketing timelines, and sales analysis reports. • Responsible for direction and creation of all sales materials and promotional items.

• Managed annual budgets for national corporate sales and marketing events, totaling $1.5+ million.• Directed and facilitated corporate conferences and conventions; in-house, off-site, webcast conferences and tradeshows.• Handled all logistics for corporate conferences and tradeshows: communication, program itineraries, travel, transportation, venue selection, event layout, hotel room block, food/beverage, audio/visual, pre-planning and on-site creative materials, and registration.• Led vendor selection, contract negotiation, and event partner relationships for Sales and Marketing Divisions.• Conducted research and evaluations on sales and marketing event opportunities to gauge and recommend corporate involvement. • Proposed new ideas to improve the corporate-wide event planning and implementation process.• Coordinated publishing, sales, and marketing efforts for all corporate conferences and conventions.

• Supervised logistics for BookExpo America, annual tradeshows, and corporate events, as well as out-of-store events for all authors.• Successfully facilitated Simon & Schuster’s first webcast sales conferences.• Maintained yearly budgets for all corporate sales and marketing tradeshows.

• Coordinated nationwide in-store author events/signings, serving as liaison between eight publicity departments and Sales Division.• Created year-end author event book sales reports; managed weekly reports on major national publicity for Sales Division.• Developed affidavit process for embargoed titles, assuring integrity of release-related publicity.