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Job Summary

Responsible for managing a portfolio of scholarly journals, with oversight of financial performance, editorial operations, stakeholder relationships, and portfolio growth. Helps drive journal quality, performance, and continuous improvement initiatives. Contributes to cross-functional projects and department-wide initiatives within the Journals business unit. Collaborates with Senior and Senior Lead Publishers while also working independently with minimal supervision to resolve moderately complex issues. Effectively prioritizes and adjusts work to achieve business objectives.

Job Description

About the Role:

Building on your foundational knowledge, you will manage and grow a portfolio of scholarly publications, overseeing key aspects of journal performance, including editorial operations, stakeholder relationships, and publishing strategy. You will contribute to the quality, performance, and growth of both society and proprietary titles, working closely with editors, society partners, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful publication outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the editorial development of journals within assigned portfolio through liaison and regular communication with authors, editors, medical societies and internal and external teams.

• Ensure timely on-schedule publication of journal titles

• Works with the Associate Director, Medical Journals, to develop and execute the strategy of the Wolters Kluwer Health publishing program.

• Identifies strategic priorities based on industry/competitive analysis and market trends. Identifies areas for differentiation and improvement.

• Gathers andanalyzesperformance data and KPIs to preparepublishing reports for professional associations and editorial boards. Provides reports on product updates, web metrics, and other key indicators asrequired.

• Manages journal/portfolio P&Ls to meet or exceedROI/profitabilitytargets. Participates inregularbudgetingand forecastingprocessand proactively adjusts product plans to improve/achieve financial performance.

• Drives new contract and renewal negotiations with editor, society, and sponsorship opportunities, including preparing and analyzing financial data.

• Maintains and enhances the value proposition to authors, editors and societies to increase submissions and impact.

• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to develop journal processes, features, and services.

• Promotes and raises awareness and visibility of assigned journal portfolio to the wider market via email, in person meetings, and at appropriate conferences.

• Collaborates with marketing to drive website usage.

• Effectively manages internal/external editorial resources and relationships to ensure operational efficiency.

• Ensure timely and accurate digital content uploads and updates.

• Synthesize customer feedback to inform content updates and improvements.

• Provides project management support, tracking milestones, and ensuring deadlines are met.

• Other duties as assigned by the Manager

Skills:

• Excellent writing, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills

• Proficient in content preparation and publishing processes

• Advanced capability in supporting publishing activities

• Competence in analyzing feedback to enhance content

• Proven organizational and planning skills with attention to detail

• MS Office proficiency with Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, and Teams

• Familiarity with web development protocols and technologies

Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree or equivalent experience required

• Experience 3+ years of print and digital publishing experience; STM publishing preferred including:

  • Experience with defining product requirements for high traffic journal websites

  • Strong financial analysis, budgeting, and financial modeling skills

  • Experience in management and execution of major projects with strong problem-solving abilities

Travel:approximately 15%, to include domestic travel to conferences, strategic planning meetings, etc. Some international travel may be required.

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.

Compensation:

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.