Associate Publisher Applied Biosciences

About our Team:

Our STMJ (Science, Technology, and Medical Journals) team publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research that drives progress across scientific and medical disciplines. We collaborate closely with authors, editors, reviewers, and societies to ensure the integrity and impact of the published work. Through innovation in editorial workflows and publishing technology, we help global research communities discover, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge that advances science and improves lives.

About the Role:

Elsevier is looking for a bright and enthusiastic individual to join the Applied Biosciences team as Associate Publisher and manage a portfolio of journals. This position sits within the Life Sciences team, which is part of our larger Science, Technology & Medical Journals (STMJ) Publishing Organization. The preferred location is the Oxford office, but the offices in Amsterdam and China might be considered.

In this position, you will manage, develop, and take complete publishing responsibility for a list of 10-14 journals in applied biosciences, and will work on other projects and initiatives to develop and grow this portfolio of journals. You will team up with experienced publishers who manage related titles.

You have entrepreneurial skills and a keen interest in new online developments and changes in the publishing industry, like e.g., Open Access and Peer Review innovation. In addition, you have a strong affinity for building and managing relationships and are competent at working independently whilst also contributing to team initiatives, as necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the strategy for the portfolio combining market knowledge and data analysis to ensure your portfolio remains fully competitive; ensure alignment with the department’s and wider organization’s strategies.
• Work with Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Boards on strategic journal development.
• Work with editors, authors, editorial boards and the academic community at large to ensure you meet portfolio related objectives with regards to content growth, articles market share, citation share, relative impact factor, editorial speeds and author, reviewer and editor satisfaction.
• Negotiate and manage contractual relationships with journal editors.
• Continuous quality control and monitoring of all aspects of day-to-day editorial, production and publishing operations and actively address improvements where required.
• Data gathering, interpretation, and presentation.
• Establish, manage and maintain excellent contacts and networks with editors, authors and society representatives, with a view to understanding their 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.

Requirements:

• Flexibility with working in a complex, matrix international environment.
• A creative/entrepreneurial/innovative attitude is essential
• Willingness to travel internationally
• Resilient and open to changes in a very dynamic environment
• Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Strong networking and collaboration skills.
• Commercial awareness, negotiation skills and Financial awareness and business acumen.
• Experience in data gathering, interpretation and presentation.

Work in a way that works for you:

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 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:

● Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days

● Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits

● Wellbeing programs

● Life assurance

● Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme

● Save As You Earn share option scheme

● Travel Season ticket loan

● Electric Vehicle Scheme

● Optional Dental Insurance

● Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave

● Employee Assistance Programme

● Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children

● RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you

● Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer

● Access to extensive learning and development resources

● Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

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. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.