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Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.\nAbout the Role:\nThe Associate Publisher, Publishing Development, will be responsible for the strategic development, growth, and performance of a portfolio of approximately 25 journals, including proprietary titles (Including the Forward series), and partnership journals. This role will lead editorial strategy, journal development, editor recruitment, and stakeholder engagement, with a strong focus on increasing submissions, enhancing quality, and strengthening journal impact, particularly in high-growth markets such as China. The role will also support company-wide initiatives across the portfolio, including REX migration and AI-related intelligence. Working cross-functionally with editors, Marketing, Content Transformation (CT), Peer Review Performance (PRP), Strategic Content Acquisition (SCA), and Partner Publishing (PP) teams, the Associate Publisher will help ensure the portfolio’s sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market competitiveness.\nHow you will make an impact\nPartner with internal and external stakeholders to achieve and exceed content growth objectives, including submissions, acceptances, and published output.\nPresent journal performance and development plans to editors and society partners, negotiate effectively with partners, and influence aligned actions that support portfolio goals.\nMonitor industry trends, assess their relevance to Wiley and the portfolio, and communicate implications, risks, and opportunities to key stakeholders.\nDevelop compelling business cases to secure support, resources, and investment for publishing development initiatives.\nIndependently manage editor performance and meet regularly with journal editors to review, monitor, and report on journal progress.\nBuild a strong network within relevant research communities, gather market insights, and identify opportunities that create competitive advantage.\nOrganize, maintain, and report activities to the manager in a timely and effective manner.\nKey responsibilities\n1. Develop subject and portfolio strategies to grow submissions and published output\nDevelop and execute subject-level strategies aligned with Wiley’s global Health Sciences priorities.\nManage a complex, high-value, and high-potential portfolio of proprietary journals, including the Forward series, and partnership journals across open access and hybrid editorial models.\nCreate and implement growth plans and activities through the annual journal development planning cycle.\nMonitor, drive, and deliver key journal performance objectives, including submissions, acceptances, and publications.\nIdentify and support new commercial opportunities for Wiley, including new journal launches and transitions to open access.\n2. Advance operational excellence to drive portfolio performance\nProactively recruit, onboard, and manage the performance of external editors.\nChampion and support company-wide initiatives across the journal portfolio, including REX migration and AI-related intelligence.\nCollaborate with editors, Marketing, Content Transformation (CT), Peer Review Performance (PRP), Strategic Content Acquisition (SCA), and Partner Publishing (PP) teams to strengthen portfolio performance, operational effectiveness, and long-term competitiveness.\n3. Market development and stakeholder engagement\nBuild effective publishing relationships and independently manage external editors and editorial boards, including complex relationships with societies and partners.\nDevelop and maintain strong relationships with key academic institutions, societies, and research communities.\nIncrease journal visibility and submissions through targeted outreach, events, and strategic partnerships.\nRepresent Wiley at conferences, workshops, and institutional engagements.\nWhat we look for\nBachelor’s degree or above; a MD/PhD in a relevant subject area is preferred.\nStrong understanding of scholarly publishing trends, with the ability to assess major industry developments and their implications for Wiley.\nDemonstrated ability to build productive, results-oriented relationships in a publishing environment.\nExperience managing complex, high-value, and high-potential portfolios of society-owned and proprietary journals across open access and hybrid editorial models.\nProven ability to engage external stakeholders and build strong, productive partnerships.\nAbility to develop insight-led, high-impact proposals that secure support and buy-in for proposed solutions.\nWe power infinite possibilities.\nFor more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing-creating impact that reaches everywhere.\nWe're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.\nHere, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything. \nWiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact  for assistance.\nWe are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.\nWe are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies. 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