Production Editor

Mindlance is a national recruiting company which partners with many of the leading employers across the country. Feel free to check us out at http://www.mindlance.com. 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