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We are developing a leading global publishing and technology business, which has grown from a science and bio-medical publishing base to encompass a diverse range of products and services in the media, online and technology sectors. We have created the UK's largest entertainment listings database, developed the leading mobile phone navigation software platform and are the largest Open Access publisher. Our brands stand for top quality and our business is driven by innovation and creativity. At SNG you will enjoy working in a diverse, challenging and rewarding environment at our London headquarters or one of our offices world-wide. We are committed to equal opportunities and believe in investing in our employees. To apply for any of the opportunities listed below please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, Science Navigation Group, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. |
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Advertising & Sponsorship Sales Manager - BioMed Central BioMed Central is the leading open access publisher in the field of scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Our advertising and sponsored sales team offers a variety of marketing opportunities to our clients (primarily companies in the Life Science, Biotech, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industries). These include: web and email advertising; sponsorship of supplements, special issues and other special projects; and article reprints. Job Description Job Role/Responsibilities
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Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Sales Executive - BioMed Central BioMed Central is the leading open access publisher in scientific, technical and medical publishing market. Due to the popularity of our services, we are seeking a bi-lingual, self-motivated individual whose strength is to establish, develop and maintain long-term relationships with existing and potential customers. It is a busy role for which you will have the ability to conduct yourself in a highly professional manner over the phone in order to generate interest and to develop sales opportunities as well as being committed to the provision of excellent service. Job Description Job Role/Responsibilities
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Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Sales Executive - BioMed Central BioMed Central is the leading open access publisher in scientific, technical and medical publishing market. Due to the popularity of our services, we are seeking a bi-lingual, self-motivated individual whose strength is to establish, develop and maintain long-term relationships with existing and potential customers. It is a busy role for which you will have the ability to conduct yourself in a highly professional manner over the phone in order to generate interest and to develop sales opportunities as well as being committed to the provision of excellent service. Job Description Job Role/Responsibilities
Experience/Qualifications required Personal specification/skills required
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Assistant Editor - BioMed Central Genome Medicine, a new online journal being developed by the open access publisher BioMed Central, is seeking an enthusiastic, well-organised, literate PhD or MD (or equivalent post-graduate) to join its expanding editorial team as an Assistant Editor. Genome Medicine, the premier medical journal of BioMed Central and the sister journal to Genome Biology, will publish reviews, commentaries and original research articles of outstanding quality aimed at keeping physicians, clinical researchers and basic scientists informed of advances in medicine, as influenced by genomics and other large-scale or high-throughput approaches. The successful candidate will, together with other members of the editorial team, identify research articles suitable for Genome Medicine’s scope and interest level and make decisions on publication on the basis of referees' advice. Additional responsibilities of the team include the commissioning of reviews, meeting reports and comments, advocacy to authors, scientific conference attendance, as well as liaising with the editorial team that is responsible for peer-review of manuscripts for a wide range of biological and clinical research journals, including BMC Medical Genomics and BMC Cancer. Computer literacy and a keen eye for detail are essential; editorial experience would be an advantage but is not essential for candidates who have editorial aptitude and a relevant science or medical background. Informal enquiries may be made to Nicole Nogoy, Managing Editor of Genome Medicine (nicole.nogoy@genomemedicine.com) Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Java Developer - BioMed Central BioMed Central is the leading independent publishing house providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed scientific research. We are seeking a Java Developer to join our small, friendly team of developers working on mission-critical submission and workflow applications. Skills Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Editorial Production Assistant - BioMed Central We are the World's largest open access publisher with journals covering biology, medicine, chemistry and physics. We are seeking proactive individuals with good English language skills, attention to detail, computer literacy and strong organisational skills to work on our scientific journals. A background in science, publishing or other relevant experience would be advantageous, but not essential. Training will be provided. You will liaise with authors and editors to ensure that the published versions of manuscripts are produced to a high standard and in appropriate time frames. Main Duties:
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Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Editorial Assistant - Medicine Reports Ltd Medicine Reports Ltd is looking for an Editorial Assistant to join a friendly team working on an award winning on-line literature review service - Faculty of 1000 (www.f1000.com). The successful candidate should be a well-organised, literate life sciences graduate who wishes to pursue a career in editing and commissioning. Positions involve editing text in Biology and/or Medicine for online publication and/or liaising with top level authors. Aptitude is more important than experience as full training will be given. Start date September 2008 (negotiable). Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Customer Support Manager - Telmap Direct Telmap Direct (www.telmap.com) is a world leader in Mapping and Navigation Solutions that prides itself on its team of innovative, professional and highly motivated staff whose vast experience is deeply reflected in their understanding of the business and the technology required to meet the goals defined by our customers, the market, and Telmap itself. A full-time opening has arisen and as a result we are seeking a motivated customer support manager to handle first line operational and administrative support for Telmap customers, manage support desk staff and scheduling, improve processes, training, activity reporting and other Administrative duties needed for the Managing Director and group. Main Duties:
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Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Sales Executive - Open Repository (Ref: BMC/SE-OR) - BioMed Central Open Repository is a flexible and cost-effective service from BioMed Central - the leading open access publisher - to build, launch, host and maintain institutional repositories for organisations. BioMed Central's economy of scale makes it possible for organisations that could not otherwise afford to, or lack the infrastructure or technical capacity in-house to run their own repositories. As the Open Repository Sales Executive you will promote the benefits of institutional repositories to libraries and international organisations; understand their needs and, with the Open Repository Project Manager help them build and launch their own institutional repository. The ability to work independently but equally to develop strong working relationships with customers is key. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in sales ideally gained from working within an information environment, the library/research community, publishing or from a consultative selling environment. You will be a self-motivated sales professional with outstanding communicational skills and the ability to sell both on the phone and face-to-face. You will equally be involved in the overall development of the project, alongside the marketing and technical teams. The role will be office based developing sales leads over the phone, with occasional international travel to relevant exhibitions and clients visits. Preferred candidate profile:
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Junior Production Assistants, Liverpool (Ref: BMC/JPAL) - BioMed Central BioMed Central Ltd (www.biomedcentral.com), the pioneering open access publisher, is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. We are seeking Junior Production Assistants to join our Production team in Liverpool. The Junior Production Assistant has a wide-ranging role covering all aspects of the electronic production process. Main duties include the running of BioMed Central's semi-automatic article PDF layout system, loading and correcting article XML, performing formatting checks and corrections on articles, and liaising with authors and editors to ensure that the published articles match the submitted manuscript. Full training will be given; we are looking for organised, accurate, and keen team-workers, rather than for experience. This position would suit graduates, interns, or gap year students looking to gain experience within Publishing. This entry-level role offers the opportunity to work within a friendly and focused team in a company at the forefront of Scientific Open Access Publishing. Main duties:
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Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Web Project Manager (Ref: BMC/WPM) - BioMed Central At BioMed Central we're changing the way science is communicated. We are the World's largest open access publisher with journals covering biology, medicine, chemistry and physics. We aim to take the lead in finding innovative and experimental solutions to the scientific communication challenges of today and the future. We are looking for a Web Project Manager to join our online publishing operation. Focusing on supporting the work of our production teams, you will work on projects that streamline our processes and that prepare our business for growth. This will include defining the scope and assessing the scale of the project, liasing with stakeholders, testing, training and carrying out project reviews. You will be a self-motivated individual with a strong sense of detail, and the ability to work well under pressure within a flexible project environment. You will have excellent communication skills. Some knowledge of science publishing would be a bonus. Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Assistant Editors (Ref: BMC/AE) - BioMed Central BioMed Central Ltd, the open access publisher, is expanding the team responsible for the manuscript peer review process on the BMC-series journals, which cover a wide range of life science and clinical research areas. The key task is to provide a high quality and objective peer review service through liaison with reviewers, editorial boards and authors. Staff also represent the journals at conferences and editorial board meetings. A life science or clinical research degree and postgraduate experience in a relevant subject are both required. A background in clinical medicine, epidemiology, public health, cancer, bioinformatics, genomics or evolutionary biology would be a strong advantage. Excellent English language, computer literacy, analytical and organizational skills are essential. Job description Assistant Editors are responsible for the peer review process on the journals they work on, assessing the manuscript upon submission, selecting and inviting peer reviewers, corresponding with the authors and reviewers, and making decisions on manuscripts on the basis of the peer reviewers' reports. Assistant Editors also suggest manuscripts to be highlighted as Research Highlights and to be press released. Manuscripts
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To apply for this position please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, Science Navigation Group, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Associate Editors (Ref: CBD/ASE) - Current BioData Current BioData Ltd is a joint venture between the Science Navigation Group and Swiss-Prot to develop the Targeted Proteins database (TPdb), part of a new set of resources for scientists and others involved in drug discovery. We are looking for Associate Editors to join the Conference Reporting Group who will be responsible for commissioning conference reports in the field of biochemistry with relevance to disease and drug discovery. The role will then involve editing these manuscripts to conform with our strict structure as well as checking for scientific accuracy and sense. You may also be involved in writing up reports of conference slides in conjunction with the speakers. These roles will involve close liaison with editorial colleagues as well as with scientific experts across a wide breadth of protein fields. You will need to have a postgraduate qualification (MSc or equivalent) in either biochemistry or molecular biology and will need to show an ability to apply your scientific knowledge and understanding to areas outside of your areas of expertise. Candidates need to have strong communication and organisation skills and enjoy interacting with people. Computer literacy, excellent English language skills and attention to detail are also essential. Informal enquiries can be made to the Editorial Director, Dr Rebecca Lawrence: rebecca.lawrence@currentbiodata.com Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Closing date 13/06/08. Editorial Administrator (Ref: CBD/EA) - Current BioData Current BioData Ltd is a joint venture between the Science Navigation Group and Swiss-Prot to develop the Targeted Proteins database (TPdb), part of a new set of resources for scientists and others involved in drug discovery. We are looking for someone to join our Conference Reporting Team as Editorial Administrator. This may be your first job in a publishing environment or you may be looking to build on your already established administration career. You will provide support for authors, reviewers and editors alike in a role that will give you exceptional involvement in a variety of different publishing styles. The role will require the ability to coordinate the output of multiple teams at the same time, as you will be working closely with other members of the editorial team, other internal team members, and external members of the scientific community. Candidates need to have strong communication and organisation skills and enjoy interacting with people. Computer literacy, excellent English language skills and attention to detail are also essential. Informal enquiries can be made to the Editorial Director, Dr Rebecca Lawrence: rebecca.lawrence@currentbiodata.com Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. Closing date 13/06/08. Editorial Assistants (Ref: BR/EA) - Biology Reports Ltd. & Medicine Reports Ltd Join a friendly team working on an award winning on-line literature review service - Faculty of 1000 (www.f1000.com). The successful candidates should be a well-organised, literate life sciences graduates who wish to pursue a career in editing and/or commissioning. Positions involve editing text in Biology and/or Medicine for online publication and/or liaising with top level authors. Aptitude is more important than experience as full training will be given. Start date July/August 2008 (negotiable). Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com. |
