Job Title: Implementation Specialist
Locations: London, Pune (Hybrid)
Full Time, Permanent
Application Deadline: Sunday 8th November 2026
About Springer Nature
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About the Team
Springer Nature’s Group Publishing Operations team (GPO) performs and oversees manuscript screening operations across Springer Nature's journals portfolio. GPO also manages the various peer-review systems used by authors, editors and reviewers as part of submit-to-accept processes.
Our 'article-level' activities are largely supported by 400+ BPO staff across multiple locations. Our 'journal-level' activities are largely supported by ~50 Springer Nature staff across multiple locations, who also contribute to projects in one of three main areas: technology, transformation and quality.
About the Role
The Implementation Specialist will manage their own portfolio of journals and partner with Publishing teams to run their journals in a ‘Production-ready’ way, while facilitating submit-to-accept workflows and compliance with policies.
In collaboration with the Manager, Quality Assurance (as well as the rest of the Quality Assurance team and the wider GPO team), the Implementation Specialist will also contribute to GPO’s quality assurance programme (proactively and reactively addressing quality issues), with the aim of delivering best-in-class quality levels across GPO.
Role Responsibilities:
Journal care
- Gather system requirements from publishers, editors and service providers.
- Set up, maintain and administrate peer review systems.
- Conduct presentations and training sessions for internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure quality of article-level activities and act as an escalation point for individual journals.
- Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders (Publishing, Editorial, Production, Technology & Operations staff, as well as external editors, reviewers, authors and service providers).
- Maintain journal-specific records and documentation.
Quality Assurance
- Collaborate with GPO’s Automation & Analysis team to gather meaningful and reliable quality-related insights.
- Proactively monitor quality across journals and investigate issues surfaced by the monitoring, as well as ones reported by stakeholders.
- Collaborate with GPO service providers, other Implementation Specialists, as well as GPO’s Workflow Solutions and Training Programmes teams, to ensure the underlying causes of quality issues are addressed.
Other responsibilities
- Be an advocate for continuous improvement, quality and efficiency. Foster a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration within the team and with our stakeholders.
Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
Essential
- Contributing to (sometimes interconnected) business projects.
- Working with a wide range of global stakeholders.
- Excellent organisation skills to contribute to multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate with individuals at all levels and on a global scale.
- Excellent numeracy skills with proven attention to detail.
- Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.
- Good problem solving/logic/analytical skills.
- Proactive and able to lead projects alone as well as part of a large group.
- Degree or equivalent work experience.
Desirable
- Previous experience in a publishing and/or support role.
- Understanding of publishing workflows.
- Business analysis and data analysis.
- Formal project management qualification such as PRINCE2
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Job Posting End Date:
9-11-2026Skills Required
- Contributing to interconnected business projects
- Experience working with a wide range of global stakeholders
- Excellent organizational skills for managing concurrent projects and competing priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent numeracy skills and proven attention to detail
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint
- Good problem-solving, logic, and analytical skills
- Proactive ability to lead projects independently and collaboratively
- Degree or equivalent work experience
- Previous publishing or support experience
- Understanding of publishing workflows
- Business analysis and data analysis experience
- Formal project management qualification such as PRINCE2
What We Do
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