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Advisor – Journal Operations

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Junior (1-2 years)
English

Other Skills

  • Customer Service
  • Team Building
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Accountability
  • Time Management
  • Teamwork
  • Prioritization

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Educational qualification: Graduate to post-graduate
  • Experience: Fresher or 1-2 years of relevant experience
  • Familiarity with systems such as A2R, SMARTJ, Peer Review (Scholar One and STS) desirable but not essential
  • Excel proficiency is desirable; strong time management and communication skills

Requirements:

  • Manage Journal Operations inboxes and ensure customer satisfaction and volumes meet SLA, handling author inquiries via email
  • Work with system applications such as Scholar One, STS, SMART, and Sage Open Access Portal; identify areas to develop canned responses
  • Prepare daily productivity reports and contribute to creation and maintenance of internal and external Journal Operations knowledge-based articles to keep content current
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and team members, pursue self-driven upskilling, propose process improvements, and participate in global meetings as required

Job description

Job Purpose:

The Advisor is accountable for delivering outstanding customer service by promptly and efficiently handling author inquiries via email. They ensure the provision of accurate and timely information while maintaining full proficiency in all system functionalities and author payment processes.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Manage Journal Operations inboxes with customer satisfaction and volumes as per SLA.  

  • Working on various system applications like Scholar one, STS, SMART, Sage Open Access Portal.

  • Identify areas to build canned responses.

  • Prepare daily productivity report of the work done.

  • Actively collaborating on creation and management of the internal and external Journal Operations knowledge-based articles and keeping the content current and relevant.

  • Self-driven upskilling in relevant process and business areas. Relationship development with key process stakeholders within the organisation.  

  • Collaborate and Support other team members to move the inbox smoothly.

  • Actively identify and recommend process improvements to operations processes for potential local and global implementation and representation in CII group.

  • Attending meetings and calls during regular office hours and/or outside office hours to collaboratively work with Global team.

Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Functional Knowledge & skills

Excel Proficiency is desirable but not essential

Top of Form

Bottom of Form

Familiarity with systems such as A2R, SMARTJ, Peer review (Scholar one and STS) is desirable but not essential.

 Time management skills

Accountability & Prioritization of work

Articulateness (Written and verbal communication skills)

Customer Service skills

Qualifications & Experience

 Graduate to post-graduate 

 Fresher or 1-2 years of relevant experience

Sage is committed to Diversity and Inclusion and is an equal opportunities employer.  We value individuality and therefore welcome all qualified applications from a diverse range of candidates.  

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