Associate Publisher
Are you passionate about scholarly publishing and excited by the opportunity to shape the future of academic research?
Would you enjoy building strong partnerships with editors, societies, and research communities while driving the development of a portfolio of influential journals?
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. You will join a team of 10 publishers, led by a Publishing Director, who together look after around 150 journals in the life sciences or social sciences/economics space.
About the Role
As an Associate Publisher, you will manage a portfolio of journals and work closely with editors, editorial boards, societies, and research communities to support their development and long-term success. The role combines relationship building, strategic thinking, data analysis, and a strong interest in academic publishing and the evolving scholarly communications landscape.
Responsibilities
- Follow the market. Keep up to date with developments in publishing and research, and identify where there are needs and opportunities for your journals and the communities that they serve.
- 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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Skills Required
- Experience in publishing, ideally scholarly journals
- Evidence of setting and achieving goals with measurable impact on a journal or program
- Excellent networking and communication skills in English
- Ability to adapt to change and manage multiple responsibilities independently and collaboratively
- Data-driven approach and interest in changes in academic publishing
- Financial and commercial awareness
- Good judgment when using AI tools, including verifying outputs
- Willingness to travel two to four times per year
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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