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About the Role
This collaborative and varied role involves working closely with Editorial, Design, Sales, Inventory, and Finance teams, as well as external suppliers. You will use your commercial judgment and production expertise to solve manufacturing, costing, and scheduling challenges, while seeking opportunities for process improvement and positive change. Building strong supplier relationships, influencing negotiations, and ensuring books and associated formats are delivered on time, within budget, and to a high standard are key. You will also support and manage team members, fostering an environment for development and high performance.
Responsibilities
- Have a confident understanding of the needs and goals of your Production team and use this to inform your decision-making with high commercial awareness.
- Take a proactive role in shaping how we work by evaluating, critiquing, improving, and communicating our processes and best practices.
- Be authoritative and influential, serving as an ambassador and point of contact for the team.
- Provide trusted production advice and support to other departments.
- Develop and communicate a proactive and collaborative production approach, partnering with Editorial, Design, and Sales to drive innovation and growth.
- Demonstrate market and commercial awareness, showing a strong understanding of business needs and how the team can best support the Children’s Publishing Division.
- Take initiative and lead on ad-hoc projects and tasks outside of the usual Trade and Non-Trade production cycles.
- Approach production solutions creatively and innovatively, contributing to the department’s strategic initiatives and process improvements.
- Contribute to a calm, constructive, and mature atmosphere in the team, being a positive influence within the department and the broader company.
- Be confident in your understanding of production processes, systems, terminology, and the broader company and industry.
- Guide, advise, and formally train junior team members.
Requirements
- Experience of children’s book production.
- Experience of colour and mono book production.
- Experience of mentoring, training or managing a team.
- Experience of managing a varied workload with a track record of successfully delivering to deadlines while meeting the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
- Great communication and negotiating skills, adept at building and maintaining relationships.
- Experience of CE Testing.
- Experience of novelty and co-edition production.
- Experience with Biblio.
Skills
- Commercial judgement
- Production expertise
- Negotiating skills
- Relationship building
- Communication skills
Location
- Embassy Gardens office
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid working
- 3 days per week required in the office (during probation), reducing to 2 days per week after probation
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- £45,000-£50,000
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
About the Company
- As the largest global children’s publisher, Puffin is the home to some of the most iconic characters, authors and illustrators alongside dazzling new talent.
- We believe the right book can inspire a child to feel they can be and do anything.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.
- We believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity.
- The Random House Group Limited
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.