Prepress Coordinator in Abingdon

Company Description: Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100. Taylor & Francis Group operates globally and produces high quality, peer reviewed books and journals. We produce unique, trusted content by expert authors, spreading knowledge and promoting discovery globally. Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge.

Job Description: Taylor & Francis Books is currently recruiting for a Prepress Coordinator to oversee the production of new titles from receipt of the author’s uncopyedited typescript through to delivery of the final content, providing support to external project managers and ensuring new books meet our quality requirements.

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 8th September 2026.

What you’ll be doing:

• Commissioning, preparing material for, managing and feeding back to external project managers.
• Entering and maintaining up-to-date information on our database.
• Communicating with colleagues in other departments as necessary.
• Controlling and maintaining schedules.
• Quality control of final content.
• Controlling budgets, assessing and coding invoices for prompt supplier payment.
• Liaising with authors if required, and providing necessary support.
• Completing multiple tasks to deadlines.

Full training will be provided.

Qualifications: What we are ideally looking for:

• Accustomed to prioritising and working to deadlines.
• Organised and able to multi-task.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify spelling and grammatical errors.
• An understanding of the importance of maintaining information relied on by others, ideally through experience of using a database.
• A good communicator, both written and verbal, able to represent the company professionally and contribute to the team.
• Basic skills in MS Office including Word, Excel and Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Ability to problem-solve and work effectively, both on your own initiative and as part of a team.
• Experience of working within budgets.
• An aptitude and enthusiasm for working with new technology and dealing with people, and an ability to adapt well to change.

Additional Information: Location: We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at conference – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely. The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of the Milton Park (OX14) office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations 3 days per week.

What we offer in return:

• Salary of £33,560 per annum
• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture
• 25 days annual leave per year plus an extra day off for your birthday
• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year
• 4 paid volunteering days each year
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care

Training and professional development: We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Interview process: Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis: If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves.