Senior Production Manager

Senior Production Manager

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Do you enjoy collaborating across teams to build and deliver products that make a difference?

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About the Team:

Within Elsevier Operations, Platform Operations is responsible for ensuring that Product content meets quality standards, is delivered on time and within budget, and made available to end-users via Elsevier's product websites such as Knovel, Engineering Village, and Scopus.

About the Role:

The Senior Production Manager is a member of the Engineering Segment and leads support for the Engineering Collection (Engineering Village-EV). The successful candidate takes ownership of end-to-end production workflows and process improvements and is responsible for key decisions related to content analysis, content production, and content delivery. Success in this role requires knowledge of publishing and bibliographic metadata standards, and the ability to correlate multiple data sets to one or more strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with EV Product and Content teams

• Develop knowledge of the research landscape to understand EV use cases, product requirements and product vision

• Understand and coordinate development of workflows for content types currently outside of RDP (e.g., Standards, Patents, Pre-Prints, Dissertations)

• Working with suppliers (in consultation with Supplier Management), serve as the project manager for optimization of existing workflows and development of new workflows and  ensure successful delivery of content to EV

• Improve data quality with a focus on completeness and error reduction

• Identify key metrics and work with CDA team to deliver dashboards and visualizations

• Organize and lead stakeholder meetings to review product health and align priorities

• Assist customer support to resolve customer-reported issues quickly and successfully

• Prepare budget forecasts and track spending on production and indexing by suppliers

Requirements:

Strong analytical skills and facility with analytics tools

Ability to dive into data, frame hypotheses and arrive at logical conclusions

Ability to create reliable data that can stand along or be integrated with other data sets

Strong communication skills

Strong research skills

Project management, business process management (businessoptix), stakeholder management

Minimum one year working with a product development team

Minimum one year of exposure to agile methodologies

Familiarity with data analysis methods and tools for handling large data sets (e.g., Databricks)

Familiarity with markup languages (e.g., XML), query languages (e.g., SQL) and scripting languages (e.g., Python)

Knowledge of bilbiographic metadata and publishing standards and best practices

Project and stakeholder management

Leading Change: Champions Change

Focus on Results: Drives for Results

Focus on Results: Takes initiative

Personal Capability: Solves Problems & Analyzes Issues

Personal Capability: Practices Self-Development

Interpersonal Skills: Collaboration & Teamwork

Interpersonal Skills: Builds Relationships

Working with us:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
● Comprehensive Health Insurance: Covers you, your immediate family, and parents.
● Enhanced Health Insurance Options: Competitive rates negotiated by the company.
● Group Life Insurance: Ensuring financial security for your loved ones.
● Group Accident Insurance: Extra protection for accidental death and permanent disablement.
● Flexible Working Arrangement: Achieve a harmonious work-life balance.
● Employee Assistance Program: Access support for personal and work-related challenges.
● Medical Screening: Your well-being is a top priority.
● Modern Family Benefits: Maternity, paternity, and adoption support.
● Long-Service Awards: Recognizing dedication and commitment.
● New Baby Gift: Celebrating the joy of parenthood.
● Subsidized Meals in Chennai: Enjoy delicious meals at discounted rates.
● Various Paid Time Off: Take time off with Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, and Gazetted Public Holidays.
● Free Transport pick up and drop from the home -office - home (applies in Chennai)

About the Business:

We are a global leader in information and analytics, helping researchers and healthcare professionals' advance science and improve health outcomes. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science, research, health education, interactive learning, and exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to addressing the world's grand challenges and creating a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare, partnering for a better world.

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