Assistant Editor

Job Title: Assistant Editor

Location: Pune

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About the Role:

The Peer Review Management team sits within the Editorial Operations Department, supporting the Springer Nature Journals group by connecting the editorial and publishing needs of the journals portfolios to the people, systems and processes that will support them. The Peer Review Management team’s primary function is to provide best-in-class editorial support to authors, editors (internal and external) and peer reviewers from the point of submission through to acceptance.

Assistant Editors play an important role in the manuscript ‘submission to accepts’ process, overseeing tasks such as conducting suitability checks, finding, and assigning EBMs, and managing communication with editors, reviewers, and authors. They play a key role in facilitating decision-making, resolving author queries, and ensuring manuscripts progress smoothly through the publishing pipeline. Furthermore, they monitor the overall health of the journal by reviewing its performance, identifying challenges, and proposing solutions. In essence, they act as catalysts in the peer review process, ensuring high-quality manuscripts are delivered to EBMs and peer review is conducted efficiently and within set timelines.

Responsibilities

• Perform enhanced Quality Checks (Suitability Assessment) on manuscripts to ensure they meet our requirements to proceed to editor assignment/peer review 
• Responsible for managing Journal pipeline by processing manuscripts from 'Ready for editorial' through to final decision
• Invite EBMs to handle the manuscript OR assign manuscripts to an appropriate handling editor
• Support Editors throughout the process, creating excellent working relationships with them
• Collaborate and build rapport with Journal editorial staff for continuous improvement/updates and new initiatives in the process
• Handle email correspondence between the various parties involved in the publication process; (Authors, Reviewers, Editors, Guest editors, Readers, etc. for the assigned manuscript)
• Assess the decision recommendation of Handling Editors and send final decision to authors
• Monitor progress throughout the review process and provide help/support to reach final decision 
• Mentor and support new team members
• Provide inputs on improving the process to reduce TAT and manage pipeline at various stages of the editorial process

 Key Relationships

• Authors, EBMs, and Peer Reviewers
• Journal Editors
• Journal Editorial Office
• External Partners (Vendors)

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

Experience 

• A minimum of 2 years of full time work experience

Skills

• Good Communication Skills (written and verbal English)
• Email etiquettes
• Subject matter expertise (STEM)– Medicine/Life/Physical Science/Engineering
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning ability
• Customer service and business communication experience
• Experience in Manuscript handling will be an added advantage
• Familiarity with manuscript management systems, editorial workflows, and publishing tools is desirable
• Should possess organizational, decision-making, and time-management skills

Qualification

• Master’s degree or equivalent in – Medicine/Life sciences/Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics/ Computer Science/Engineering (Bachelor’s)

Springer Nature Skills associated with this Job Profile include:

SN-Interpersonal Awareness, SN-Collaboration, SN-Action-Oriented, SN-Resourcefulness, SN-Process Optimization, SN-Decision Quality, SN-Manuscript Assessment, SN-Writing Skills, SN-Editorial Skills, SN-Publishing Workflows & Systems, SN-Adaptability

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