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About the Role
This role combines pre-press expertise with team, supplier, and workflow management for an established independent publisher.
Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day production of books, magazines, and point-of-sale materials, ensuring files are technically ready for print.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve pre-press issues related to fonts, color profiles, and PDF compliance.
- Review proofs and specifications to identify potential production issues and maintain high standards.
- Prioritize multiple projects and work with an international supplier base on production requirements, schedules, and issue resolution.
- Manage and support a small Production team, providing technical guidance on pre-press and file-related issues.
Requirements
- Experienced production professional with considerable hands-on pre-press expertise.
- Comfortable working directly with files and solving technical problems.
- Possess strong organizational and communication skills.
- Strong practical pre-press and print production experience.
- Advanced working knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat.
- Confidence inspecting and troubleshooting InDesign files and PDFs.
- Strong understanding of fonts, color profiles, PDF compliance, and print-ready file preparation.
- Good knowledge of commercial print processes, including practical experience of both color and mono production.
- Strong proof-checking skills.
- Experience managing multiple production projects and priorities simultaneously.
- Experience working with external print and production suppliers.
- Experience managing or supervising a small team.
- Confidence to provide technical guidance and find practical solutions to production problems.
- Experience gained within publishing (desirable).
- Experience working with an international print and production supplier base (desirable).
Skills
- Pre-press expertise
- Team management
- Supplier management
- Workflow management
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Acrobat
- File troubleshooting
- Color profiles
- PDF compliance
- Print production
- Proof-checking
- Project management
- Communication
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £50k
About the Company
- Established independent publisher with a long history of publishing both fiction and non-fiction titles across a number of genres and formats.
Equal Opportunity
- Dedicated to promoting diversity in all its forms.
- Committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment that promotes equal opportunities.
- Actively encourage candidates from under-represented groups to apply.
- Warmly welcome all individuals with exceptional abilities, irrespective of their background.