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The Senior Publisher role at Elsevier involves developing and managing a portfolio of medical and scientific journals, collaborating closely with editors, authors, and stakeholders to enhance content quality and drive market engagement.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include strategy development for the journal portfolio, managing editorial relationships, ensuring quality control, and meeting content growth objectives.

Skills: Candidates should have extensive experience in journal publishing, excellent communication skills, and a strong background in health and medical sciences.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in data analysis and a proven ability to manage editorial boards and societal partnerships.

Location: This position is located in New York, NY at 450 Park Ave (WeWork).

Compensation: $88900 - $148000 / Annually

Senior Publisher

Do you have experience in medical or scientific publishing?

Do you enjoy using science to drive change in the world?

About our Team

You'll be part of a dedicated team in the Health and Medical Sciences. We are a team of publishers and editors collaborating to achieve the goals of both our team and the business.

About the Role

The Senior Publisher delivers realization and business plans aiming at the development and maintenance of a journal portfolio. Working with major society accounts and proprietary journals. Working In line with the strategy, plans and global objectives at Elsevier’s journal publishing division level. Managing and developing an assigned portfolio of journal titles and related products/services on a complex level.

Responsibilities

Developing and implementing the strategy for the portfolio; ensure alignment with the wider organization’s strategies.
Working with editors, authors, editorial boards and the academic community at large to ensure sufficient copy flow of relevant, high-quality manuscripts.
Negotiating and managing contractual relationships with journal editors and societies.
Continuous and pro-active maintenance of the existing portfolio, matching developments in the external marketplace, including the development of Open Access initiatives.
Continuous quality control and monitoring of all aspects of day-to-day editorial, production and publishing operations, actively addressing improvements where required.
Meeting portfolio related objectives with regards to content growth, market share, citation share, impact metrics, editorial speeds and author and editor satisfaction.
Managing the editorial fees budget and provide input to pricing processes.
Establish, manage and maintain excellent contacts and networks with key external stakeholders, including editors, authors, society representatives, with a view to understanding their professional and organizational needs and ongoing market developments.
Establish, manage and maintain excellent contacts with key stakeholders within the company, including editorial, production, publishing, marketing and technology teams, coordinating activities as they relate to the portfolio’s needs and development.
Teamwork: you will need to work closely with team

Requirements

Experience in data gathering, presentation and interpretation.
Have extensive experience in journal publishing coupled with society partner experience.
Have excellent verbal, written and communication skills with fluency in English.
Maintain a creative, collaborative, innovative working practice.
Able to build, nurture and manage editorial boards.
Have knowledge and experience in the health and medical sciences.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Health plan benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement Benefits
Various Leave Programs
Educational Assistance
Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance
Paid Vacation
Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals' advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

The salary range provided in this posting is the base salary range for New York City

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The salary range provided in this posting is the base salary range for NYC:$88,900.00 - $148,000.00

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