Publisher for Society Onboarding

Publisher, Society Onboarding

Do you enjoy supporting the onboarding process for new acquisitions?

Do you excel at streamlining and standardizing current processes to ensure a smooth and transparent experience?

About the Team

Elsevier is looking for a bright and enthusiastic Publisher to manage the onboarding of societies across our STM journals business. In this role, the Publisher for Society onboarding will closely collaborate with stakeholders in the Society Business Development team and the wider STMJ group to support the onboarding process for new acquisitions. They will also work to streamline and standardize the current onboarding process to ensure a smooth and transparent process for our new society partners and internal stakeholders.

About the Role

This Publisher for Society Onboarding position will sit in the Flex Publisher team within the Journal Development & Editor Engagement Center of Excellence (CoE), and report directly to me. The Center of Execellence focuses on developing and implementing a best practice-based approach to drive journal launches, supporting journal development and performance for new and established journals, in addition to partnering with Publishers to build a more collaborative culture with external editors.

Responsibilities​

• Act as single point of contact for onboarding process​.
• owning the onboarding process for new societies.
• Ensuring key milestones are met according to established timelines​.
• Working with stakeholders to adapt onboarding process as needed to meet journal specific needs​.
• Understanding strategic plan for each journal and adapt onboarding process. where necessary to ensure successful implementation of plan​.
• Reporting on progress of each journal’s onboarding and highlight potential risks to meeting established targets and timelines​.

Requirements

• Have a creative/entrepreneurial/innovative attitude is essential.
• Display excellent communication skills (written and verbal), with a calm, diplomatic attitude.
• Have journal operational knowledge.
• Able to establish, manage and maintain excellent relationships with societies and key external and internal stakeholders.
• Have a university degree.
• Have a minimum of 2 years journal publishing experience.
• Able to fluently communicate (written and verbal) in the English language.
• Display excellent networking skills.
• Able to be flexible and work effortlessly in a complex, matrix international environment.
• Display financial awareness and business acumen.
• Have knowledge of relevant parts of the scientific world and its sociology.

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:


• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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.


Salary Range


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