Job Title: Senior Executive Editor - The Lancet

Location: London Wall

Would you like to join The Lancet’s journal’s editorial team?

Do you want to help researchers and healthcare professionals to advance science and improve health outcomes?

About our Team

The Lancet is part of our family of world-renowned medical journals committed to publishing leading science for better lives. We are a collaborative team handling a large volume of high-quality research submissions and thought leadership for our journals. We build solid relationships with our researchers to ensure we offer a personalised and exceptional publishing service.

About the Role

You will lead the Fast Track team at The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal. Your key responsibilities include improving Fast Track processes, mentoring new editors, and participating in peer review. The role requires in-depth medical knowledge, international experience, leadership abilities, and a passion for global health. Effective communication, collaborative teamwork, and deadline management are crucial.

Responsibilities

• Leading and enhancing the Fast Track (FT) team, improving processes and mentoring new editors.
• Screening and distributing incoming FT papers, ensuring effective organization within the team.
• Conducting external outreach and trialling acquisition specifically for FT papers.
• Engaging in general peer review, evaluating and presenting allocated papers to the editorial team.
• Participating in critical assessments of other editors' papers across The Lancet family.
• Negotiating revisions with authors to meet the highest standards of medical and scientific reporting.
• Commissioning Seminars and Reviews in collaboration with the commissioning team.
• Leading, shaping, and commissioning Global Health Series and Commissions, fostering relationships for wide dissemination.

Requirements

• Be educated to PhD or MD level with substantial research experience
• Have experience in a variety of health settings, both globally and by institution
• Have previous editorial experience in a leading general medical journal
• Be able to participate in team decisions and planning.
• Have excellent organizational and planning abilities for meeting deadlines and continuous process improvement.
• Be able to communicate with authors, reviewers, commissioners, and high-level international leaders in health, leveraging broad clinical, scientific, and health policy knowledge.
• Be capable of providing effective coaching and mentoring to editorial colleagues.
• Have a demonstrated passion for research, science, healthcare, and global health, coupled with a purposeful and results-oriented approach.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that 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 remotely from home and at our office in a hybrid working style
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

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.

Join Us

Purposeful Work
When you work with us, your work matters. You are part of an organization that nurtures your curiosity to stimulate innovation for the communities that we serve.

Growing Every Day
Like the communities we serve, you are on a constant path of discovery to shape your career and personal development.

Colleagues Who Care
You will be part of the Elsevier family. We will support your well-being and provide the flexibility you need to thrive at work and home.

Together, we create possibilities.

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