Head of Peer Review Management

Job Title: Head of Peer Review Management

Locations: London, New York or Pune – Hybrid Working Model

Application Deadline: Sunday 19th July 2026

About Springer Nature

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About The Brand 

Nature Portfolio’s high-quality journals and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences help move science and society forward.  

Nature Portfolio is home to the leading, international weekly journal of science, Nature – founded in 1869. It is also home to the Nature research and Nature Reviews journals, the leading open access multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications, and open access journals including Scientific Reports. Together, these journals publish some of the world's most significant scientific discoveries.  

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About The Role

The Head of Peer Review Management is responsible for defining and driving the strategic design, governance, and organisational adoption of the future-state PRM/AE workflows across the Nature Portfolio (NP). Together with the Director of Editorial and Author Support you will help to set the direction across process, roles, systems, and governance to ensure scalable, standardised, and future-ready solutions for PRM. The role provides decisive leadership within the workflow transformation governance, balancing efficiency, quality, and complexity, while aligning cross-functional stakeholders across Editorial, PRM, Publishing, Technology, and Operations, and ensures successful, sustainable implementation through clear performance metrics, continuous improvement, and a focus on delivering measurable outcomes. This role will act as the primary PRM representative in relation to SNAPP development to enable the NP migration to SNAPP. The scope of this role will also include involvement in other strategic projects and initiatives as these arise, and in the long term will form part of the NP PRM senior management team responsible for delivering a high level of editorial support to the expanding NP group of journals.

Role Responsibilities

Decision Quality / Manages Complexity:

• Take ownership of and accountability for the future-state AE workflows, providing strategic direction for workflow design and implementation, ensuring solutions are scalable, standardised and aligned for SNAPP.

• Act as a lead for PRM within the workflow transformation project governance, helping to define decision frameworks, escalation routes, and accountabilities while resolving cross-functional conflicts and competing priorities.

Publishing Workflows and Systems:

• Act as the lead NP PRM stakeholder representing the PRM needs to the SNAPP product team and ensuring SNAPP readiness within the PRM teams, taking responsibility for the planning and delivery of training and onboarding of PRM teams.

Project Management:

• Lead the overall change strategy for PRM, overseeing the communication strategy, training and onboarding, and transition planning for impacted teams. Anticipate and manage resistance, risk to morale, and capability gaps.

Operational Excellence:

• Provide organisational design and role transformation support, defining future roles, responsibilities, and capability models within PRM, and ensuring clarity on ownership of tasks across the workflow.

• Collaborate with Editorial to define success metrics and drive ongoing iteration and optimisation of PRM workflows post-implementation, ensuring that solutions align with business objectives.

Action-oriented / Drives Results:

• Provide direction to PRM workstream leads, ensuring implementation remains aligned to strategic intent and workstreams are co-ordinated and prioritised effectively.

• Use a data-informed approach to measure PRM performance and outcomes and facilitate continuous improvement.

Collaboration / Communicates Effectively:

• Build strong working relationships with adjacent teams (Editorial, GPO, Production, PP&I, Tech teams etc.) to facilitate smooth delivery of the workflow transformation and other projects as these arise.

• Provide cross-functional alignment and stakeholder leadership in collaboration with Editorial, Publishing, Production, Tech and Operations and ensuring decisions reflect shared priorities across business units.

Skill, Experience & Qualifications

• Strong operational and project management experience.

• Excellent understanding of editorial workflows and processes, and the needs and challenges of publishing high-quality research journals.

• Experience of leading complex projects and change initiatives and working with cross-functional teams.

• Experience in driving the successful adoption of new workflows and technologies.

• Experience in applying effective change management concepts and techniques.

• Ability to demonstrate a highly analytical and logical approach, including data-informed decision making.

• Strong communication skills, including articulating complex concepts in a clear and concise manner.

• Leadership skills, including the ability to lead cross-functional teams and inspire confidence in teams.

• Excellent interpersonal skills – communicating effectively with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.

• Strong time-management and organisational skills.

• Ability to act independently and take the initiative - action-oriented and self-motivated.

• Creative thinking in improving processes and workflows.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent demonstrable experience in a similar role.

• Project Management certification would be advantageous but is not necessary.

US employees are eligible for benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, life and AD&D insurance, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, paid vacation and sick time, flexible spending accounts, and a 401k retirement savings plan.

In order to comply with various pay transparency laws and legislations in the United States, the salary range and benefits for this position are included. This information is only applicable to US-based candidates and the actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education, skill level and equity. Salary ranges differ by country due to various local market considerations. The US salary range does not align with the salary ranges in other countries when converted to the currency of that country.

US Annualized Base Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000. This role is eligible for an annual performance-related bonus plan.

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