Senior Commissioning Editor – Location: London or Madrid (Hybrid)
Applications Deadline: 5th August
Job Posting End Date: 06-08-2026
Role Responsibilities
- Segment strategy and publishing planning: Business Insights & Market Intelligence; analyse competition strategy and look for publishing opportunities within the (sub) segment.
- Help identify possible partnerships and support analysis and interpreting of data for birthday review.
- Concept development – Integral perspective, creating & innovating; based on market research, develop strong differentiated concepts for projects for teacher validation and samples for agreed components.
- Identify authors/contributors and evaluate proposals for quality.
- Help prepare business cases and oversee project scope with project manager.
- Feed into platform and product needs in line with customer requirements.
- Content development: Editorial skills, project management, balancing stakeholders; work with relevant stakeholders to schedule and plan projects effectively.




- Oversee the commissioning and briefing of authors and contributors in the development of material.
- Brief external content developers and packagers on project specification, tasks, schedules and ways of working.
- Collaborate across portfolios with publishers and CEs to identify and exploit opportunities for content reuse and co‑creation.
- Negotiate with authors in conjunction with the publisher where relevant and work with legal to administer contracts.
- Understand segment digital requirements and feed into the digital roadmap as appropriate.
- Budget / financial / resource responsibility: Analysis, publishing workflows & systems; understand the investment approval process and demonstrate full awareness of cost and schedule implications.
- Ensure projects are planned and resourced adequately with internal and external resource for timely delivery; track budget phasing with the project manager.
- Staff management: leading and supervising, communicating effect

📌 Senior Commissioning Editor, ELT pre-primary (Madrid)
🏢 1255 Macmillan Iberia
📍 Madrid