Associate Publisher - Journals at Oxford University Press – Cary, Illinois
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About This Position
Publishing General
Posted: Mar 19, 2026
Full Time
Cary, NC (Hybrid) In office 2 days a week
We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have a global impact.
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Advancing Knowledge and Learning
ABOUT THE ROLE
• Support the day to day management and development of a portfolio of high value society contracts to a degree of excellence that enhances OUP’s standing in the learned society and publishing landscape.
• Work with the Publisher, Senior Publisher or Executive Publisher to respond to queries and requests from societies and editors in a fast paced and effective manner.
• Build strong relationships with Editors and key society contacts.
• Provide data analysis to enable evidence-based decision making for strategic/editorial development of journals, including:
- Bibliometric analysis to understand drivers for impact factor
- Competitor analysis
- Emerging trends
- New journal launches
- Content growth.
• Monitor adherence to contractual terms for all journals in your portfolio, including provision of journal accounts, member commitments, editorial board commitments.
• Responsibility for regular journal specific projects such as co-publications.
• Work collaboratively and productively with other functional groups (especially production, marketing, digital) to deliver an excellent service for society partners.
• Work with finance and operations colleagues to assist in management of costs for the portfolio.
• Assist with the transition process and ongoing management for newly acquired titles and new launches in the portfolio.
• Facilitate the roll out of OUP journal policies across the portfolio.
• Assist with implementation of projects that scale across the journals program.
ABOUT YOU
• 2+ year(s) publishing or transferable professional experience
• An understanding of academic publishing, including editorial processes, production processes, marketing, industry trends, systems, competitors, and technology.
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with stakeholder management
• Strong organizational skills
• An ability to work independently
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify trends
BENEFITS
We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 10 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.
We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.
This role is part of the OUP USA News Guild Bargaining Unit.
Position Location: This role can be hybrid, based out of New York, NY or Cary, NC (2 days a week in office) or remote in the United States.
GJC Level: I5 (for internal purposes only)
Salary: $58,960 - $70,000 dependent on skills and experience
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
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