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About the Role
This newly created role will lead Production, Publishing Operations, Author Contracts and UK IT, ensuring reliable delivery of our publishing programme and shaping how our operational teams support Simon & Schuster UK’s growth.
Responsibilities
- Set operational priorities, strengthen accountability and lead improvements across production, inventory, distribution, author contracts and IT support.
- Oversee supplier relationships and major negotiations.
- Improve stock management and title availability.
- Deliver measurable savings across manufacturing, freight, storage and distribution.
- Resolve operational issues and deliver projects that reduce duplication, manual effort and delays.
- Support timely author contracting for the UK and Australia.
- Align UK IT services with global arrangements.
- Coordinate carbon measurement and practical sustainability improvements.
- Act as the UK’s sustainability lead.
- Collaborate with global colleagues, including teams in Australia, India and the US.
Requirements
- Substantial senior leadership experience in operations, commercial management or finance.
- Record of improving operational delivery, negotiating with suppliers and leading projects.
- Strong financial literacy.
- Relevant exposure to production, inventory, supply chain and distribution.
- Book publishing experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience within a US-owned publisher or media organisation would be particularly valuable.
- Commercially astute, collaborative leader who develops specialist managers across disciplines.
- Builds productive relationships with suppliers and senior international stakeholders.
- Comfortable moving between strategy and operational detail.
- Communicate clearly, challenge constructively and see decisions and projects through to completion.
- Must have the legal right to work in the UK.
- Does not require visa sponsorship.
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- Benefits package
About the Company
- Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats.
- Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards.
- It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.
- Proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories.
Equal Opportunity
- Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity and gender expression.
- At Simon & Schuster UK, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.