Macmillan Learning
Production Manager, SMP
🇺🇸 New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $70K - $80K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ September 9th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Macmillan Publishers is hiring a Production Manager to oversee the production and manufacturing of around 60 paperback and hardcover titles annually, managing the process from manuscript to bound book. The role includes preparing cost estimates, issuing purchase orders, coordinating with internal teams and vendors, and ensuring quality control and schedule adherence throughout production.
Highlights
- Manage production and manufacturing of approximately 60 titles per year from manuscript to bound book.
- Prepare preliminary and final cost estimates and issue purchase orders for composition, printing, binding, and marketing materials.
- Coordinate with editors, designers, vendors, and internal departments to maintain schedules and quality.
- Review and approve invoices related to production activities.
- Require 5+ years of book production experience and strong knowledge of book manufacturing.
- Must possess organizational skills, ability to prioritize, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Basic understanding of the publishing business and its impact on production success.
- Familiarity with Biblio software is a plus.
- Annual salary range is $70,000-$80,000.
- Work for a leading U.S. trade company under the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group umbrella, which includes multiple imprints and global publishing entities.
Production Manager, SMP Full Description
Production Manager, SMP
Job Category: Production
Requisition Number: PRODU003159
Full-Time
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271, USA
Job Details
Description
The Production Manager will manage the production and manufacturing of approximately 60 titles paperback and hardcover titles per year, from manuscript to bound book. Prepare preliminary and final cost estimates for each title. Issue purchase orders for composition, book components, text printing and binding. Traffic production materials and work closely with in house departments and vendors to ensure schedules are maintained. Responsible for quality control throughout the process. Responsible for ordering marketing materials including bound galleys and Advanced Readers Copies for two to three imprints.
What you'll do:
- Request & Analyze cost quotes from vendors, prepare preliminary pricing estimates and final cost estimates. Issue production schedules for overseas titles. Evaluate and monitor production specs for adherence to budget. Recommend changes as needed to remain on budget.
- Issue purchase orders to vendors for composition, book components, book manufacturing, and marketing materials. Communicate paper requirements and review paper specs in a timely manner with paper manager
- Communicate with editors, text designers, production editors, managing editors, jacket designers, other in-house departments and vendors as needed as it concerns schedules, query solutions and issues impacting budget and quality. Making recommendations in response to changed circumstances.
- Review and route production materials among Interior Design, Jacket Design,
- Managing Editorial, Production Editorial, and vendors.
- Review and approve invoices
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years of book production experience.
- Excellent knowledge of all facets of book production and manufacturing.
- Must be highly organized and detail minded.
- Must have basic understandings of overall business of publishing and how production issues affect the success of a publishing company.
- Ability to prioritize.
- Demonstrated accuracy and thoroughness in work.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others in a professional manner.
- Ability to adapt to changes, delays and unexpected events.
- Anticipate, identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
- Working knowledge of Biblio is a plus
This role will have an annual salary of $70,000-$80,000.
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
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