About the role
The Project Editor (PE) role is ideal for anyone interested in using and developing their project management skills, and ideal for anyone who finds reward in driving book teams and book authors forwards every day to meet their publication goals. PEs are core members of the Packt Expert Network book teams, and they are responsible for creating, maintaining, and driving project and marketing schedules forwards so that book teams publish and market on time. PEs have an ability and readiness to negotiate and problem solve scheduling details with the book team, and an aptitude to build a professional rapport and influence with authors to keep them on track to their book schedules.
PEs work with a folio of multiple projects, so they must be able to work successfully across many projects at once. The organization skills of the PE allow them to engage and problem solve scheduling details across their folio, and stay in regular contact with their folio of authors and book teams. In a dynamic publishing industry where technology is changing so frequently, and the best laid plans need to change sometime, the ability to adapt and re-organize project schedules is a key challenge and a key reward of the PE position.
About Packt
Packt is a leading publisher of technical learning content with the ability to publish books on new and emerging tech faster than any other publisher in the world. We believe that software has a deep impact on the world, and that software runs on knowledge. Our mission is to increase the shared value of deep tech knowledge. We are tech content engineers and we work with some of the most interesting technical minds and ground-breaking creators on the planet. For more details, see www.packt.com
About PEN
Packt Expert Network (PEN) works with expert authors and influential authors to create books useful to tech communities. PEN combines both the knowledge and the experience of seasoned tech industry leaders in a comprehensive range of books dedicated to every tech domain.
What you’ll do?
- Drive book schedules daily and collaborate with book teams to meet publishing and marketing dates
- Continuously maintain and publish a live project schedule towards publication and marketing
- Work with Authors, Reviewers, and Editors to optimize publication and marketing schedules
- Problem solve, when necessary, to keep authors and book teams on schedule
- Maintain the integrity of process and good practice at each stage in the project
- Manage or refer conflicts between deadlines, processes, and quality, where appropriate
- Relate, build positive rapport, and support Authors to have a positive experience with Packt
- Relate to and support Technical Reviewers to have a positive experience with Packt
- Identify and proactively address any publishing problems as early as possible
- Alert the Project Manager to serious schedule problems
- Ensure payments to TRs and Authors and third parties are secured
Who you are?
- You’re passionate for project management
- You’re a great problem solver
- You’re great with communication skills – oral and written
- You’re great with influence & negotiation skills
- You’re great at conflict management
Why work at Packt?
We recognize how important our people are and acknowledge and support the things that are important to them. We focus on the full team member's experience. We aim to create a positive working environment that supports personal and collective development – where our people can not only grow their skill sets, continuously challenge themselves, and develop their careers, but also work together as a team and with our customers.
We try to achieve this by:
- Ensuring a positive working environment for all team members, supportive of flexible and remote work.
- Supporting individual development through growth opportunities and internal mobility.
- Encouraging social collaboration within teams and communities and knowledge-sharing.
- Fostering a culture that supports a healthy work-life balance.
We seek to achieve this by:
- Providing a broad range of benefits and initiatives.
- Advocating a healthy lifestyle where wellbeing is seen as an essential responsibility.
- Celebrating success stories and encouraging peer-to-peer recognition.
- Fostering a culture of self-development.
- Providing a work environment where the best idea wins, and challenge is encouraged.
Benefits
You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits that are designed to help you make the most of your time with us.
- Bonus scheme
- 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible hours: choose how, when and where you work
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