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Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.\nAbout the Role:\nThe Assistant Peer Review Performance Manager oversees day-to-day business-as-usual peer review performance for a segment of the Research Publishing journal portfolio. The role assesses editor and editorial office performance across assigned journals, monitors progress against expected behaviours and key performance indicators (KPIs), and drives improvements that support best practices and a positive author experience throughout the author lifecycle. The role receives direction from the manager, along with guidance and coaching from senior peers.\nKey Responsibilities:\nOversee the day-to-day management of peer review and journal editorial office services.\nOversee and evaluate editor and editorial office administrator performance across the assigned segment of the Research Publishing portfolio.\nDrive continuous improvement, workflow optimization, and the adoption of peer review best practices and standards across the portfolio.\nFocus on value-added strategies and tactics that support the delivery of editorial decisions, including speed to decision, the quality of the author experience, and the integrity of manuscripts and the workflows underpinning the peer review process.\nSeek guidance on remedial action plans, as appropriate.\nPeer Review Management\nProvide journal-level oversight of the manuscript peer review process, from submission through final editorial decision and export to Content Operations, for a portfolio of Research Publishing journals, using best-practice principles and effective time-management practices.\nMaintain oversight of accurate documentation for the peer review management process.\nIdentify and escalate integrity concerns, and implement outcomes from investigations as needed.\nAdopt new services and tools when introduced, and implement enhanced workflows as they are rolled out.\nEditor and Editorial Office Performance Management\nMonitor and manage the performance of editors, editorial office administrators, and vendor-partner editorial assistants, and provide feedback.\nCommunicate and manage expected behaviours and KPIs against established benchmarks.\nHandle performance-related queries and escalations.\nAssess insights from self-service reports and analyses provided by editorial data analysts to continuously improve performance.\nEnsure that editors and administrators follow established best practices and workflows.\nEnsure that editors demonstrate expected behaviours, including adherence to the code of conduct.\nImplement remedial actions or retraining for editors who do not meet performance expectations.\nImplement remedial actions or initiate retraining for editorial office administrators or vendor-partner editorial assistants when expectations are not consistently met.\nShare insights about consistently poor editor performance with Publishing Development and/or Partner Publishing colleagues.\nSeek guidance on remedial action plans and support with enforcing alignment, as appropriate.\nOptimization and Harmonization\nReview and optimize journal workflows, ensuring alignment with peer review best practices and standards, and implement changes that improve efficiency and standardization.\nCommunicate and implement opportunities identified through audits or data-driven improvement projects led by Publishing Operations or Editorial Excellence.\nImplement journal-level changes.\nSupport transitions between editorial office models and onboard new partners moving to Wiley Peer Review Management.\nContribute to accurate product data masters by recording journal-level changes.\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nCollaborate with internal colleagues to achieve departmental and customer-focused goals and objectives.\nPartner with editorial data analysts to advance improvements based on data-driven approaches and insights.\nWork with Research Publishing colleagues on journal-specific strategic initiatives and relationship management, and provide information and data to support improvements at the journal level.\nContribute to relevant projects, as required.\nQualifications:\nExperience supporting peer review, editorial operations, journal publishing, or a related environment.\nAbility to monitor performance against KPIs, interpret data and reports, and translate insights into practical improvements.\nKnowledge of peer review workflows, publishing integrity requirements, and editorial best practices.\nStrong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple journals and priorities.\nEffective communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nAbility to address performance concerns, manage escalations, and support remedial actions with appropriate guidance.\nCommitment to delivering an efficient, consistent, and positive author experience.\nWe power infinite possibilities.\nFor more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing-creating impact that reaches everywhere.\nWe're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.\nHere, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything. \nWiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact  for assistance.\nWe are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.\nWe are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies. 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