Team Lead: Editorial Engagement Support

Job Role: Editorial Engagement Support Assistant 
Location:  Pune
Job Type: Fixed term contract
Tenure: 8 months

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About the Brand   
The goal of the Publishing Performance and Intelligence Group (PP&I) is to help deliver next generation digital publishing at Springer Nature and, as a result, grow the number of published articles, especially in Open Access (OA). Working closely with the Journals Group, Production, Technology, Marketing and Customer Services, we contribute to a wide variety of support work. This includes increasing the number of transfers of articles between journals, the commissioning of new collections and strengthening editor engagement, as well as supporting and enhancing the end-to-end publishing process 

About the Role   

Springer Nature works with thousands of external and internal academic editors to run our journals and collections. We also work with hundreds of thousands of peer reviewers to ensure manuscripts are assessed for publication in a timely and appropriate manner. The Team Lead: Editorial Engagement Support is responsible for providing an exceptional level of support to these editors and reviewers. A data governance, customer service and workflow management expert, the Team Lead manages a team of Editorial Engagement Support Specialists and Assistants across multiple locations, focusing on a specific portfolio of journals. Acting as a data producer for editor and reviewer information across the company, the Team Lead works with Journal Owners to ensures that information stored in enterprise-level systems and databases complies with agreed data standards. Collaborating with Operations, Technology and the wider Editorial Engagement Team, the Team Lead also guarantees that new editors and reviewers have a positive experience from the moment they agree to work on one of our journals.  

Roles Responsibilities  

1. Line Management: Ensuring team resources are effectively deployed to meet the needs of the organisation and individual team members, and provide the best level of support for the different parts of the Springer Nature portfolio. Responsibilities include: 
Line management of a team of Editorial Engagement Support Specialists and Assistants across different locations and time zones 
Championing the Editorial Engagement departmental strategy (Recruit, Train, Support, Reward) so that the Editorial Engagement Support team understands the role it plays in supporting the business 
Acting as escalation point for the team when unusual circumstances arise with editor and reviewer records, liaising with Journal Owners and the Data Management Team to find the right solution for the individual. 
 
2. Data governance: Ensuring data standards are implemented and maintained for all information related to editors and reviewers in Springer Nature systems and databases. Responsibilities include: 
Acting as an advocate for data standards and quality across the Research Publishing department 
Applying data standards defined by the Data Management Team to all additions, updates and removals from Editor Data System (EDS) and other relevant systems 
Working with Journal Owners, Global Publishing Operations (GPO) and the wider Editorial Engagement team to keep journal editor listings accurate and up to date in all relevant systems. 
Collaborating with Journal Owners to jointly agree that records are correct, complete and compliant with data standards 
Ensuring that Journal Board Pages are published accurately so that editor and reviewer records appear correctly on our websites 
Ensuring updates/changes are made to EDS and other systems to agreed TATs 
 
3. Workflow and project management: Managing and improving the entire workflow of onboarding external editors and reviewers and maintaining editorial boards information . Responsibilities include: 
Maintaining and improving the onboarding process for new editors and reviewers to ensure that it is as frictionless as possible. Reviewing and updating invitation templates, enrolment forms and onboarding processes as necessary  
Maintaining and improving the editorial board re-engagement process to improve efficiency and engagement of our editorial boards 
Overseeing the maintenance process to ensure that editor data is always accurate and up to date in our databases and on the journal editor listing page 
Ensuring that our editors have access to the peer review system and other systems they need to do perform their roles to the best of their abilities 
Working closely with other support teams, for example our Global Publishing Operations (GPO) and the wider Editorial Engagement team to coordinate onboarding activities 
 
4. Customer Service: Managing the editor support inbox that serves as the main point of contact for our external editors and the EBM Administration form used by internal Journal Owners. Responsibilities include: 
Assigning and coordinating requests from internal and external customers 
Maintaining the Editor Support FAQs 
Serving as a main contact for the Publishing Support team 
Working closely with other administrative teams to drive continuous improvement activities. 
Monitoring turnaround times and editor satisfaction 
Key relationships  
Collaborating with the Editor Resourcing, Reviewer Engagement, Editor Engagement and Publishing teams to provide an excellent editor and reviewer onboarding process 
Collaborating with EDS development team  
Collaborating with GPO/SNAPP support to solve editor access issues and maintain editor data integrity across systems 
Collaborating with the Director of Data Governance and team with regard to data quality standards and breaches 
Collaborating with SN Customer Service teams to ensure timely processing of all assigned tasks 
Working closely with the OR support team to solve APC token issues 

Experience, Skills & Qualifications  

Experience  - 1+ years of team handling experience
Experience of STM journal publishing, with an understanding of peer review and the role of Editorial Boards 
Experience in line management 
Well versed with publishing workflow/systems/processes 
Experience of communication with external editors and internal stakeholders across time zones 
Experience in content management and journal (meta)databases 
Experience in workflow management 
Customer service experience 
Skills  
Project management skills, with confidence and ability to lead projects 
Strong organisational skills, with attention to detail 
Has a customer-focussed mindset 
Successfully influences and motivates others to accept and support an idea/proposal/plan 
Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team, influencing and motivating them.  
Able to see tasks through to completion, working to (often competing) deadlines 
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
Ability to research accurately (e.g. to find out background information about an individual to propose if records in two systems that look similar might be the same person) 
A high level of computer literacy – understands common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly 
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 

Qualifications    
Educated to degree level or equivalent 

Note - Please share your updated CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role.

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Job Posting End Date:
25-08-2026