Associate Publisher

Associate Publisher - Chemical and Environmental Engineering

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 journals in chemical and environmental engineering. 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 to maintain growth and create ideas for new journals to launch
• Collaborating closely with other Publishers in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering team whose journals 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 an in-depth educational background and keen interest in academic publishing
• Have demonstrable experience within an Academic or Research environment
• Have 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 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 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

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative, and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do and how they do it.

Working for you

At Elsevier, 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:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us

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.