Set portfolio strategy. Use market knowledge and data analysis to develop a strategy that meets STMJ targets and keeps your journals competitive. You will need experience gathering, presenting and interpreting data.
Develop the portfolio. Grow content through existing journals and through acquisitions, and look at new content formats, extensions and channels.
Manage contracts with editors. Negotiate and manage contractual relationships with journal editors.
Manage budgets. Look after the editorial fees budget.
Build relationships. Stay in regular contact with editors and editorial boards, and engage with research institutes, societies, funding bodies and others in the research community.
Contribute to wider projects. Take part in projects across STMJ and in other parts of Elsevier that need STMJ input. These might be pilots of a new product, service or business model, or improvements to how we work.
Requirements
Experience in publishing, ideally in scholarly journals is preferable, but not essential.
Evidence that you have set goals and met them, and that your work made a difference to a journal or programme.
Excellent networking and communication skills in English.
The ability to adapt to change, manage several responsibilities at once, and work well both independently and with colleagues and customers at different levels, in different locations and from different cultures, often to deadlines.
A data-driven approach and an interest in how publishing is changing.
Financial and commercial awareness, and an eye for how a journal can develop.
Good judgment when using AI tools, including knowing when output can be relied on and when it needs checking.
Willingness to travel, on average 2 to 4 trips per year.
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 Pattern
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.
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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