Job Description

Would you like to support the scientific community through innovative publications?

Do you enjoy building relationships that lead to successful partnerships?

About our Team

Our Science, Technology, and Medical, Journals division manages an extensive collection of high impact journals. We are responsible for managing existing journals, launching new journals and acquiring new society contracts to ensure annual growth and customer satisfaction. We take a strategic approach to deliver for our various audiences: authors, editors, researchers, societies and academia.

About the Role

You will have responsibility for a portfolio of leading journals in Environmental Management and adjacent topics, including a number of journals owned by our partners in China. You will work on related projects and initiatives that help deliver innovation and growth to our organization. You will build successful partnerships with individuals and institutions to develop mutually beneficial long-term collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Developing the strategy for our portfolio of proprietary and society-owned journals to maintain growth and create ideas for new journals to launch

• Collaborating closely with other Publishers in the Environmental Sciences team whose journals overlap or complement the scope of your journals.

• Collaborating closely with societies and institutions in China and around the world, on developing their journals or launching new journals with scopes that overlap or complement the scope of your journals.

• Establishing networks with key external and internal stakeholders, in order to manage and develop the portfolio successfully

• Engaging with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and customers to deliver innovative journal solutions

• Working with editors, authors, editorial boards and the wider academic community to ensure copy flow of relevant, high-quality manuscripts

• Monitoring continuous quality control and all aspects of day-to-day editorial, production and publishing operations and effectually addressing improvements where required

• Meeting portfolio objectives regarding content growth, articles market share, citation share, relative impact factor, editorial speeds, author and editor satisfaction

Requirements

• Have a strong educational background and keen interest in academic publishing

• A minimum of 3 years experience in academic publishing

• Show experience within an Academic or Research environment

• Excellent English proficiency, both written and oral, and experience communicating across international boundaries.

• Be a natural communicator with an ability to engage and influence cross-functional teams and external teams

• Show the ability to be a self-starter and flexible to adapt to changing priorities

• Enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver successful initiatives

• Be able to build relationships with stakeholders, teams and our community

• Be able to identify and understand market needs for potential business opportunities

• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy discovering new technologies and online developments

Work in a way that works for you

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

• Medical and Life Insurance: Coverage for Medical and life risk.

• Long-Service Award: Recognition for loyalty and dedication.

• Marriage and New Baby Gifts: Celebratory tokens for special life events.

• Festivals and Birthday Gifts: Spreading joy on occasions that matter.

• Annual Medical Check-up: Prioritizing employee well-being through regular health check-ups.

• Flexible Benefits via CIIC Platform: Personalized benefits accessible through a user-friendly platform.

• Paid Time Off: Annual Leave, Flex Family Care Leave, Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave, Medical and Hospitalization Leave, Examination Leave Gazetted Public Holiday

• Family Care leave (Maternity/Paternity Leave and Adoption Leave)

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.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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