- Track developments in medical and clinical publishing, including business models, digital transformation, competitor activity, and evolving healthcare information needs
- Translate market trends, internal analytics, and customer insights into actionable recommendations for portfolio strategy
- Identify opportunities to innovate across publishing models, content delivery formats, and product positioning within clinical workflows
- Develop scalable frameworks to evaluate, prioritize, and support innovation initiatives across the portfolio
- Drive a centralized, proactive approach to identifying and developing new society and institutional publishing partnerships
- Lead the structuring and design of new publishing partnerships, including society agreements and selected strategic growth opportunities (including potential M&A-related activity where relevant)
- Provide expert support to Publishing Directors and Publishers in complex or high-value partnership discussions
- Develop standardized tools, frameworks, and governance models for partnership evaluation, onboarding, and lifecycle management
- Support early-stage opportunity development and ensure smooth transition of new partnerships into operational ownership
- Act as a central point of expertise on STM and healthcare publishing policy developments, including open access mandates, funder requirements, and regulatory change
- Assess implications of industry and policy shifts for commercial models, operations, and reputational risk
- Identify opportunities to standardize and improve publishing workflows and cross-functional processes across the portfolio
- Support consistent adoption of best practices across publishing and editorial operations
- Contribute to a coordinated portfolio strategy for AI and emerging technologies in medical publishing and clinical content workflows
- Identify and evaluate high-impact AI use cases, particularly in editorial efficiency, content development, and workflow optimization
- Assess implications of AI adoption for clinical content integrity, editorial standards, and customer trust
- Work closely with Research Integrity and compliance stakeholders to ensure innovation aligns with ethical, regulatory, and quality standards
- Act as a connector between innovation, editorial, product, and integrity functions to ensure aligned implementation of new technologies
- Publishing Directors and Publishers
- Editorial and Product Leadership
- Legal, Compliance, Pricing, Operations, and Research Integrity teams
- External medical societies and institutional partners
- Clinical and professional healthcare stakeholders (indirectly via publishing products)
- Significant experience in medical, clinical, or STM publishing (healthcare publishing strongly preferred)
- Demonstrated expertise in one or more of: publishing innovation, society partnerships/business development, or portfolio-level strategy
- Strong understanding of healthcare publishing policy environment, including open access, funder mandates, and research integrity standards
- Familiarity with AI and digital transformation in clinical or professional information contexts
- Strong ability to influence across complex, matrixed organizations without formal authority
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to translate complex market, regulatory, and operational dynamics into clear strategic direction
To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
Skills Required
- Significant experience in medical, clinical, or STM publishing
- Expertise in publishing innovation or society partnerships/business development
- Strong understanding of healthcare publishing policy environment
- Familiarity with AI and digital transformation
- Ability to influence across complex organizations
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wolters Kluwer and has not been reviewed or approved by Wolters Kluwer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.
Wolters Kluwer Insights
What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
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