Overview
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Macmillan International Higher Education
Delivering many of our key, highest-grossing textbooks in Psychology, History, Economics and Business, I:
• Created & enforced accurate costings & realistic schedules for all projects. To this end, I supported authors to ensure that all new manuscripts were delivered along agreed lines and to time.
• Had extensive creative and practical input on all projects; reviewing all manuscripts in depth as well as arranging peer review and endorsements, briefing text and cover designs, creating back cover & marketing copy and website resources, clearing third-party material permissions.
• Performed detailed market research in all subject areas, and on related course content and key competitors.
• Recorded my sales leads and contacts in SAP CRM and created opportunities from these.
Wiley
Working on Life Sciences, Medical and Chemistry Books, I:
• Managed and supported our prestigious authors as their primary liaison from pre-contract to publication.
• Successfully managed production pipeline on busy and lucrative book lists (simultaneously running 40- 100 projects, generating yearly revenues in excess of $2m).
• Ensured high quality final product via proofreading, editing and rights-checking expertise.
• Created and updated costings and schedules for all projects to support forecasting and marketing.
• Recruited and managed freelance copy editors, indexers and designers.