{"id":4289167,"url":"https://alion.io/job/elsevier-journal-manager","title":"Journal Manager","company":{"id":3090,"name":"Elsevier","domain":"elsevier.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/elsevier","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":28,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.821,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":29,"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"}},"role":"Communications","role_family":"Communications","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Exeter, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T22:43:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T04:59:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Journal Manager (12 Months FTC)\nDo you enjoy helping research reach the world through high-quality publishing processes?\nAre you excited by the opportunity to work with authors, reviewers, editors, and society partners to deliver an exceptional publishing experience?\nLocation: Exeter\nAbout our Team\nOur STMJ (Science, Technology, and Medical Journals) team publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research that drives progress across scientific and medical disciplines. We collaborate closely with authors, editors, reviewers, and societies to ensure the integrity and impact of the published work. Through innovation in editorial workflows and publishing technology, we help global research communities discover, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge that advances science and improves lives.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Journal Manager, you will manage the end-to-end operational process of journal publication across a portfolio of journals. You will work closely with authors, reviewers, editors, and society partners to deliver a high-quality publishing experience, ensuring expectations are met for quality, accuracy, and timeliness.\nThis is a fast-paced role that combines relationship management, workflow optimisation, content delivery, and continuous improvement. You will play an important role in supporting successful publication outcomes while contributing to excellent customer satisfaction across the journal lifecycle.\nResponsibilities\nManage the end-to-end operational process of journal publication across a portfolio of journals\nDeliver an excellent experience for authors, reviewers, editors, and society partners\nEnsure publication expectations are met in terms of quality and timeliness\nOptimise editorial and production workflows to maximise customer satisfaction\nManage customer journeys and stakeholder relationships across assigned journals\nSupport effective content delivery and publication performance\nIdentify opportunities for process improvement and workflow efficiencies\nContribute to personal development, learning, and team success within a high-paced environment\nRequirements\nExperience demonstrating strong organisational and prioritisation skills\nAbility to build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships\nStrong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to challenges\nAbility to manage multiple activities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills\nExperience working with operational processes, workflows, or customer-focused services\nA continuous learning mindset and commitment to self-development\nAn agile mindset is advantageous\nWork in a Way That Works for You\nWe 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.\nWorking Pattern\nWorking 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.\nWe operate a hybrid working policy. We are office-based and request attendance in the office in Exeter one day per week. The office is open and available most days for staff who prefer to come in.\nAbout the Business\nA 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.\n\nWe know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Clickhereto access benefits specific to your location.\nWe are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.\nCriminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scamshere.\nPlease read our Candidate Privacy Policy.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nUSA Job Seekers:\nEEO Know Your Rights.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5009,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Hybrid work","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Publishing","Clinical Decision Support","Scientific & Lab Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-13T22:43:44Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/elsevier-journal-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/elsevier-journal-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T08:03:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11453,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3090},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3090"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Felsevier-journal-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Felsevier-journal-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Felsevier-journal-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/elsevier-journal-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Felsevier-journal-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4289167}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"elsevier.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4289167},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}