Patrycja Kuklo
Warsaw,Poland
Summary
Driven professional with over 9 years experience in ELT sector, supporting cross functional teams to deliver high-impact projects. Skilled in scheduling, project planning and streamlining process to manage publishing workflows. Ready to use and develop communication and problem-solving skills to manage projects ensuring timely and engaging content delivery within budget.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Managing Editor
Macmillan Polska Sp. z o.o.
Warszawa
08.2023 - Current
- Working with the Head of Delivery, Project Manager, Managing Editor, Senior Commissioning Editor to ensure all pre-approval and approved projects are adequately resourced.
- Ensuring delivery of high quality material to agreed deadlines.
- Creating editorial schedules and maintaining them within the team.
- Supporting Project Managers in overall schedules creation for the project/family of of projects.
- Preparing editorial costs for inclusion in project financials in cooperation with Managing Editors, Project Managers, Publishing.
- Ensuring all costs are submitted as required by the investment approval schedules.
- Maintaining an overview of editorial costs within the team.
- Tracking spend to remain within budget and alerting the Head of Delivery to any financial issues in a timely manner.
- Cooperating with Project Manager to reallocate costs.
- Working with internal teams to define and scope out requirements of the project.
- Overseeing the supply of course marketing material for use in sales.
- Supporting in co-running Project Status meetings by providing feedback to agenda, updating decisions and RAID logs, covering for Project Managers while not available.
- Overseeing the Managing Editors' day-to-day project work, providing direct and indirect support.
- Ensuring best practice is sustained across projects and workflows, acting as an advocate for those best practises.
- Ensuring project teams are aware of process, R&R and best practice for working with packagers.
- Mentoring line reports, helping them to prioritise workload, identifying areas for development.
- Sharing knowledge and experience with the wider Delivery team and other teams, e.g. by providing training.
- Establishing and running team meetings.
- Recruiting and onboard new hires.
Managing Editor
Macmillan Polska Sp. z o. o.
Warsaw
09.2020 - 09.2025
- Managing the editorial workflow from approved manuscript through to publication.
- Ensuring that all material is according to brief, proactively raising risks and issues.
- Participating in checking stages, collating and circulating the files as required for print and digital development, maintaining supplementary materials until sign-offs.
- Managing schedules and keeping team updated.
- Monitoring and tracking all editorial costs and mitigating if over budget.
- Organizing and managing audio recording sessions and attending photo selection meetings.
- Engaging, briefing and managing freelance editorial staff.
- Maintaining documentation and providing feedback to freelancers and suppliers.
- Cooperating with Senior Managing Editors to mitigate resourcing issues.
- Making sure all the best practice guidelines are followed.
- Keeping data on company systems accurately, up to date and timely.
- Sharing knowledge with in-house teams.
- Participating in trainings, workshops, new tools and systems roll-outs and taking care of professional development.
Editorial Coordinator
Macmillan Polska Sp. z o. o.
Warsaw
11.2018 - 09.2020
- Supporting Editorial team in project-related tasks at variety of stages up until print publication and digital release.
- Participating in copy-editing reviews, proofreading checks and marking up proofs.
- Performing audio/video scripts and answer keys checks.
- Facilitating proofs and digital releases circulations, collating feedback from departments and freelancers, assisting in resolving queries, escalating issues.
- Managing content release checks and sign-offs on particular components.
- Preparing documentation.
- Taking part in remote image selection meetings and audio recordings.
- Holding responsibility for keeping records, maintaining and finding information in several correlated systems.
- Archiving project final files and legal documents, processing contracts, invoices and freelancers' internal documents.
- Troubleshooting post-publication issues.
- Cooperating as a part of international team and interacting with all departments and stakeholders at all levels alongside freelancers and studios.
- Engaging in one-on-one peer mentoring sessions with one of Managing Editors.
- Participating in recurring meetings as a mentee.
English Language Instructor
Berlitz Poland
Warsaw
05.2016 - 11.2018
- Teaching students across all segments (primary, secondary, adult) including English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
- Monitoring and evaluating students performance.
- Developing a coherent curriculum.
- Participating in language trainings.
- Consulting methods, resources and strategies in ongoing projects.
- Cooperating with international companies such as Sony, Google, UPC, Orange.
- Communicating with individuals from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Administrative Assistant
Warsaw School of Economics
Warsaw
03.2016 - 04.2016
- Event planning (SGH Day).
- Coordinating event checklist.
- Drafting diplomas.
- Managing and preparing correspondence.
Education
Bachelor of English Philology - English Philology
The University of Białystok
Białystok 09.2012 - 09.2015
Skills
- Scheduling
- Problem-solving
- Project co-ordination
- Reporting
- Resource management
- Quality management
- Cost control and budgeting
- Resilience
- Decision making
- Time management
- Stakeholder management
- Mentoring and team leadership
Languages
Polish
Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
Certification
- Understanding Assertive Communication provided by Sii Training Practice
- SN Leader CORE pathway designed, developed and delivered in collaboration with Springer Nature, Blanchard® and t-three
- 1st Time Manager Program organised by Macmillan Polska
Affiliations
- Travelling, hiking, wellness
Disclaimer
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Timeline
Senior Managing Editor
Macmillan Polska Sp. z o.o.
08.2023 - Current
Managing Editor
Macmillan Polska Sp. z o. o.
09.2020 - 09.2025
Editorial Coordinator
Macmillan Polska Sp. z o. o.
11.2018 - 09.2020
English Language Instructor
Berlitz Poland
05.2016 - 11.2018
Administrative Assistant
Warsaw School of Economics
03.2016 - 04.2016
Bachelor of English Philology - English Philology
The University of Białystok
09.2012 - 09.2015
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