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Vaishnavi

Assistant Managing Editor
Chennai,TN
Vaishnavi

Work Preference

Job Search Status

Open to work
Desired start date: Open to discussion

Desired Job Title

PEER REVIEW ADMINISTRATOREXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATORSUBJECT MATTER EXPERT CHEMISTRY

Work Type

Full TimePart TimeContract WorkGig WorkConsultingVolunteerSeasonal Work

Location Preference

RemoteHybrid
Location: Chennai, TN
Open to relocation: No

Salary Range

850000/yr - 1000000/yr

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCareer advancementCompany CultureFlexible work hoursWork from home optionPersonal development programsPaid time offPaid sick leave4-day work week

Summary

A passionate professional with academic background in chemistry and hands-on experience in e-publishing industry, data handling seeking a challenging and exciting career in a dynamic work environment that involves an intense quest for analysis, attention to detail and opportunities to learn new skills and concepts. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

9
years of professional experience

Work History

KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PVT LTD
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Assitant Managing Editor
11.2025 - Current

Job overview

  • Manage end-to-end editorial workflows, ensuring timely manuscript processing and publication in line
    with journal standards and SLAs.
  • Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to monitor progress, resolve bottlenecks, and
    maintain delivery timelines.
  • Oversee submission handling, including manuscript screening, reviewer identification, and
    communication with authors, editors, and reviewers.
  • Issue non-templated decision letters with clarity and consistency aligned to journal guidelines.
  • Support and supervise trainee editorial assistants post-training through quality checks, feedback, and
    query resolution, ensuring adherence to journal workflows and submission standards.
  • Provide ongoing guidance on submission requirements and journal-specific checklists, to improve
    accuracy and efficiency.
  • Contribute to editorial meetings with insights on workflow improvements and process optimisation.
    Assist in developing and refining editorial guidelines and best practices.
  • Edit and proofread manuscripts and editorial communications for clarity, grammar, and style.
    Work effectively in a remote environment, maintaining productivity and turnaround times.

Clarivate Analytics
Bengaluru, KA, India

Associate Solutions Analyst
11.2024 - 04.2025

Job overview

  • Collaborated with product owners and development teams to enhance publishing-related applications.
  • Gathered and documented requirements and supported feature prioritisation.
  • Worked cross-functionally with QA, UX, and delivery teams.
  • Participated in testing and validation to ensure defect-free releases

Clarivate Analytics
Bengaluru, KA, India

Content Ingestion Specialist
09.2023 - 11.2024

Job overview

  • Worked on the abstraction of meeting papers, conference papers, and journal articles for the Energy
    Abstracts bulletin at the University of Tulsa (TU).
  • Edited and proofread abstracts of journal articles and conference papers.
  • Assisted in the selection of geochemistry, geophysics, and other journals, articles, and conference
    papers in the petroleum domain for abstraction and indexing for publishing in the Petroleum Abstracts
    technical bulletin.
  • Maintained effective communication with team members for workflow fulfillment.

Integra Software Services Pvt Ltd
Chennai

PEER REVIEW ADMINISTRATOR
12.2019 - 01.2022

Job overview

  • As a PRA, I was responsible for handling editorial tasks on a daily basis for medicinal, life sciences, psychology journals for a leading publisher across the globe – Wiley Publishers. The job role involved the following tasks –
  • Managing submissions of the manuscripts in online submission portal (ScholarOne) on a daily basis as per the agreed SLA
  • Liaising with the editors, reviewers, production editors and other internal colleagues throughout the peer-review process of the submissions in the online portal
  • Assigning articles to the issue to be published on a monthly/bi-monthly basis
  • Identifying the loopholes in the journals’ workflow (if any) which can impair the quality of peer-review process; carefully monitoring the submissions that violate publication ethics
  • Streamlining the workflow in journals by bringing out innovative ideas and suggestions to improve, accelerate the peer-review process and to improve the online submission portal, reduce the turnaround time in processing the submissions
  • Identifying failed submissions in Wiley’s submission system portal – “Research Exchange” and resolving the cause for the same, rising tickets/troubleshooting the problems if needed
  • Mentorship – mentoring few of our team members when they come up with any problems related to their work assignments; Supervising their work, performing quality checks on their work on regular intervals; conducting doubt clearing sessions to offer them guidance on how to answer emails, training them to manage the work, etc
  • Monthly meetings with clients– Building & Maintaining good collaboration with the customers and clients through effective communication and proactive thinking
  • Email communication - Communicating with the customers, clarifying their queries and offering them assistance for any editorial task, on a daily basis thereby achieving customer satisfaction.
  • Built long-term relationships with client by utilizing active listening, effective communication and dynamic interpersonal skills.
  • Coordinated with other team members, combining group efforts to achieve goals.
  • Guided team members in handling difficult or complex problems.

Maersk Training Services India Pvt. Ltd
Chennai

EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR
09.2019 - 12.2019

Job overview

  • Liaised with Admin co-ordinators across Maersk Training office globally for facilitating and completing training booking requests.
  • Proactively collaborated with internal departments globally to ensure that core information on course availability and booking requests are uploaded on time in the requisite systems.
  • Liaised with Sales coordinators, Admin coordinators to ensure that joining instructions were uploaded on time with correct information to the clients.
  • Proactively collaborated with Maersk Training centers globally to increase the satisfaction of our internal and external clients.

Straive (Formerly SPi Technologies Pvt Ltd)
Chennai

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT CHEMISTRY
12.2017 - 12.2018

Job overview

  • As a subject matter expert in chemistry, I had worked for a project in which the job role involved authoring plagiarism free content as solutions for middle grade and high school chemistry textbooks problems
  • I had delivered 1500+ solution content of exceptional quality for the same.
  • Offered one-on-one support for team members and managers to drive continuous improvement.
  • Advised on hiring, development and management of in-house team.
  • Maintained positive working relationship with fellow staff and management.

Education

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY

Master of Science from Chemistry
05.2016

University Overview

GPA: 7.13

A.M. JAIN COLLEGE

Bachelor of Science from Chemistry
05.2014

University Overview

GPA: 8.41

St. Joseph’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Chengalpattu, TN, India

Higher Secondary
03.2011

University Overview

GPA: 90.9%

Skills

  • Chemdraw, Mathtype editor
  • Team Building
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Multitasking and Organization
  • Workflow Optimization
  • Microsoft Office
  • Quality Assurance
  • Customer Service
  • Report Preparation and Analysis
  • Database Maintenance
  • Native Language - Tamil
  • English – Professional proficiency

Interests

Interests

Data handling and analysis, Teaching, writing, knowledge sharing, Social Listening, Active Listening ,Counseling/Mentoring Attention to detail, Problem solving.

Additional Information

Additional Information
  • EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS: University Rank holder and medalist in BSc (2011-14).
  • Member in National Service Scheme in college (2012-13)
  • Participated in inter-college competitions, competitions conducted in workplace cultural events and won prizes.

Timeline

Assitant Managing Editor
KNOWLEDGEWORKS GLOBAL PVT LTD
11.2025 - Current
Associate Solutions Analyst
Clarivate Analytics
11.2024 - 04.2025
Content Ingestion Specialist
Clarivate Analytics
09.2023 - 11.2024
PEER REVIEW ADMINISTRATOR
Integra Software Services Pvt Ltd
12.2019 - 01.2022
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR
Maersk Training Services India Pvt. Ltd
09.2019 - 12.2019
SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT CHEMISTRY
Straive (Formerly SPi Technologies Pvt Ltd)
12.2017 - 12.2018
St. Joseph’s Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Higher Secondary
A.M. JAIN COLLEGE
Bachelor of Science from Chemistry
BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY
Master of Science from Chemistry
Vaishnavi Assistant Managing Editor