Production Editor

Job Description:

Initiating editorial production documents and tailoring for custom project features
• Providing leadership on quality control throughout project development and rollout
• Reviewing all materials post-content development for completeness and adherence to quality, project, and product standards and requirements
• Reviewing initial web-produced content for completeness, functionality and alignment with the submitted materials during staging and coordinating edits from stakeholder teams for delivery to Production for updating
• Providing editorial support during periods of high volume (e.g., copyediting, reference acquisition, slide creation/formatting, synch sheet development, fact checking)
• Maintaining a friendly and productive relationship through clear articulation and an effective communication style with internal and external stakeholders
• Continuously identifying opportunities for process improvement
• Ensuring maintenance and updating of department processes and templates quarterly and training/coaching internal stakeholders to ensure best practices are followed
• Completing other responsibilities, as assigned

Required Skills:

Minimum of 3 years’ related work experience, preferably in a large medical education and/or medical communications company, and/or professional medical publisher
• Experience using web-based project management tools
• Superior communication (verbal and written) and team-building skills
• Experience in off-line editorial content development and online production, with high level of attention to detail
• Experience in a broad variety of medical therapeutic areas
• Familiarity with medical terminology and/or medical publishing standards
• Well versed in AMA style
• Excellent time management and organizational skills, with the ability to efficiently coordinate and work on multiple tasks simultaneously in a highly deadline-driven environment, while taking into consideration global stakeholders based across multiple time zones
• Ability and desire to meet deadlines and deliver results with minimum supervision by creatively using existing resources in a productive and/or innovative way, to quickly deal with unforeseen issues, and suggesting plausible solutions to ensure that timelines are consistently met
• Self-motivated, positive attitude and very high energy, with a willingness to accept varied assignments
• Exceptional focus on accuracy, attention to detail and consistency of work
• Demonstrable critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and high degree of initiative
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively with members of Editorial Services, Scientific Direction, Program Management, Production and Studio teams
• Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel)
• Efficient capabilities for developing and editing PowerPoint files, Word documents, performing image searches, medical data reference searches (e.g., PubMed, Google Scholar, ClinicalTrials.gov)

Desired (not required) Skills:

College degree in English, journalism and/or biological sciences
• Experience editing/producing continuing medical education materials
• Understanding of ACCME guidelines
• Experience with print permissions and copyright requirements
• Experience with web-based document sharing sites (such as Box)
• Knowledge of internet technologies; previous online development experience a plus
• Experience in Photoshop and Illustrator
• Experience with Endnote or other referencing software

If you are interested feel free to reach Ajay Kumar on #732-243-0011 or email your resume on ajayk(at)mindlance.com