Claire Thompson

Experience

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  Rees Bradley Hepburn

  Jan 2007 - Nov 2007

  Production Administrator

  • Manage departmental administration and supporting production team.• Source items for creative and production departments.• Use company database system to raise purchase orders, produce estimates and quotes, maintaining dealer databases, distributing updates within agency and to suppliers.

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  Oxford University Press

  Nov 2007 - now

  Managing the project programme for the UK and US production departments to ensure the successful delivery and implementation of projects and to ensure projects are aligned to departmental and divisional strategy and meet identifiable business needs.• Manage the planning, development, execution and follow up phases for projects relating to production workflow and processes for UK and US offices and off shore suppliers.• Ensure projects meet budget, schedule, and objectives agreed with stakeholders and complete benefit analysis and • Use LEAN and Prince2 methodology to analyse business processes.• Develop and maintain the quality management system of core production documents and best practice.• Maintain ownership of central documentation ensuring that quality-approved methods for document storage, distribution, and version control are followed.• Management of summer interns• Act as champion for developments and change within department and division including organising communication plans and appropriate training of staff to manage change effectively.• Produce business reports for divisional board providing business analysis and recommendations• Power User for SharePoint, shaped SharePoint strategy within division, and member of Working Group including the development of best practice guidelines and training plan Show less In addition to the Production Editor role below, undertake the following responsibilities.• Negotiate with print suppliers on non-scale titles.• Run reports to track departmental progress against targets and objectives• Co-ordinate and deliver training both one-to-one and to groups• Support management with day-to-day management tasks and covering manager absences• Generate, develop, and implement business process transformations and lead project groups to continually improve production best practice, maintain efficiency, and adapt to changing publishing Show less • Project manage the production of academic and trade books from receipt of manuscript to printed books for publication.• Ensuring books were produced to agreed standard of quality, budget, and schedule.• Liaise with authors, freelancers, print and pre-press suppliers, and internal departments.• Develop production session of Production induction day and manufacturing session for new starter training• Quality Facilitator for AcTrade production department including mapping production workflows and distribution and communication of process and documentation changes within the team.• Manage the distribution of history and literature titles to other Production Editors. Show less

  • Portfolio Delivery Analyst

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Quality and Resourcing Manager, Project and Programme Management

    Jan 2022 - Apr 2024

  • Project Manager, Portfolio and Change

    Apr 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Senior Project Manager, Portfolio Office

    Dec 2015 - Apr 2020

  • Project Manager, Office of Strategy Management

    Feb 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Content Operations Projects Manager

    Jan 2011 - Feb 2014

  • Senior Production Editor

    Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

  • UK Projects Manager

    Mar 2010 - May 2010

  • Production Editor

    May 2008 - Mar 2010

  • Assistant Production Editor

    Nov 2007 - May 2008