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Seeking an experienced Executive Publisher to lead a team in the Health and Medical Sciences, focusing on portfolio management and strategic development within a global publishing organization.

Responsibilities: Oversee portfolio management, implement strategic plans, collaborate with stakeholders, negotiate contracts, and ensure quality control of editorial and publishing activities.

Skills: Strong leadership, portfolio management, excellent negotiation and communication skills, ability to build and maintain relationships, and a creative/innovative mindset.

Qualifications: Minimum of 12 years in publishing with a university degree, fluent in English, and willing to travel internationally for business.

Location: Philadelphia, PA (Penn Ctr)

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $120,000 - $180,000.

Executive Publisher

Are you an experienced Publisher who excels in leading a team?

Do you have strong portfolio management skills?

About the 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

A successful Publishing Director (PD) demonstrates the ability to manage and lead a team of Publishers working across a subject area and product market group, to grow and develop their journal portfolio and team as measured against key business metrics, and to launch and participate in strategic initiatives across STMJ or Elsevier more widely. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced publishing professional to lead the development of a prestigious journal portfolio and to create broad market strategies.

Responsibilities

Portfolio Management and Development

• Independently develop and implementing strategic plans for the portfolio, ensuring alignment with both team and broader organizational strategies.
• Collaborating with editors, authors, editorial boards, society officers and the academic and medical communities to ensure seamless journal operations.
• Negotiating confidently and managing contractual relationships with journal editors and societies. Maintain and enhance the existing portfolio, keeping pace with external market developments, including the advancement of Open Access, Open Science, AI, ethics-related initiatives.
• Conducting ongoing quality control and monitor of all editorial, production, and publishing activities, actively address areas requiring improvement.
• Achieving portfolio-related objectives concerning content growth, market share of articles, citation share, relative impact factor, editorial turnaround times, and satisfaction levels of authors and editors.
• Managing the editorial fees budget and other overarching processes, including projecting article growth.
• Demonstrating expertise in data collection, presentation, interpretation, society relations.

Relationship Management and Networking

• Establishing, managing, and sustaining strong connections and networks with key external stakeholders, including editors, authors, society representatives, university leaders, and industry professionals, to understand their professional and organizational needs and stay informed on market developments.
• Establishing, managing, and maintaining excellent relationships with key internal stakeholders, including editorial, production, publishing, marketing, and technology teams, coordinating activities to meet the portfolio's needs and support its development.
• Operating on a high level toward all external journal stakeholders. This is a visible position within a specialized medical community with high expectations for excellence and overall performance. 

Requirements

• Have a university degree with a minimum of 12 years in Publishing.
• Have a Creative/entrepreneurial/innovative mindset.
• Display result-oriented and proactive
• Able to travel for business needs, internationally (25-30%)
• Have integrity and commitment to the business
• Possess excellent commercial and negotiation skills.
• Display willingness to participate in selective projects
• Able to build and manage editorial boards
• Excellent networking with key stakeholders
• Knowledgeable about technology, social media, and content enhancement in academia
• Are fluent in English, written and verbal communication.

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 Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• 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.

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