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Manager - Editorial Services
Role :
Main duties and tasks :
- Promote Marketing Services as a CoE, especially from a content perspective and broaden the clientele base across
- Build business (people outreach and marketing to spread awareness on & promote services within the function, such as Translation Services).
- Increase headcount, expand capabilities and enhance quality of resources through effective skilling and hiring the right talent.
- Drive business SLAs across the team.
- Ensure that all content is in line with high quality standards, marketing compliance & style policies, and international standards of the English language.
- Be responsible for ensuring the highest quality and timely delivery of all projects assigned.
- Independently and efficiently drive the execution of multiple projects end to end.
- Transform and transition marketing communication output to create demand for Company's service offerings.
- Manage and oversee MIS and SLA documentation and reporting for the editorial team.
- Be accountable for and manage all team administrative and operational functionalities such as billing/invoicing, project codes, etc.
- Add compliance value to all content by recommending and ensuring adherence to risk guidelines for all company's-wide content.
- Serve as a visible leader for activities/initiatives beyond editorial & content team-related responsibilities Independently co-ordinate the release of multiple communications through multiple channels
- Work closely with the Source Communications and Change Management workstream lead, based in the UK, to provide full communications support to the Source UK deployment team
- Help ensure content across marketing collaterals are in line with the company's marketing compliance policy.
- Add compliance value to all content for the UK firm by citing stylistic and risk issues in documents.
- Be responsible for ensuring the highest quality and timely delivery of all projects assigned.
- Make constructive suggestions for improving content and consistency and quality.
- Apply corporate communication and brand standards to the range of material requested.
Experience and skills required :
- Excellent communication and team management skills, experience in journalism/communications an advantage
- Proficiency in different styles of English and in particular different systems of style (Chicago and AP, for instance)
- Ability to be a proactive and dynamic leader with a solutions-centric approach
- Sharp executive presence and client management skills
- Ability to work under pressure handle crunched timelines, turnaround swiftly and be adaptive to frequent changes in the nature of requests
- Ability to prioritize and plan efficiently when dealing with multiple requests and stakeholder changes/feedback/suggestions
- Project-management and team-leading skills in overall work and service delivery approach
- Ability to effectively review content for effectiveness and quality without tampering or taking away from the original intended meaning
- Ability to manage team dynamics effectively and keep attrition low
- Ability to demonstrate quick thinking and innovation in approach to team management and business development
The Individual must have at least 10- 12 years of relevant experience in a similar role (with a professional services/content & communications team would be an advantage).
Qualification / certifications : MBA/M.Com/PG in Communications/English/Brand Marketing
- Certifications or diplomas in management, leadership skills, editorial management, brand compliance, communications (advantage/bonus)
Overall work experience (in years) : 10- 12 years
Preferred Skills :
Relevant experience in a similar role (with a professional services/ marketing compliance team would be an advantage)
Industries to tap :
- Publishing
- Big 4 (Markets and Support Services teams)
- Non-Big 4 knowledge services firms
- Magazine industry
- Newspapers (Hindu, ET, FT, and HT if at all, as eye for detail is a problem in newspaper industry)
- Others (Content writing agencies/outsourcing firms)
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Job Code
297513