Posted 5 days ago

Senior Content Editor (Acquisitions Editor, Clinical Medicine)

Wolters Kluwer Health, LLC. United States of America, USA - Philadelphia, PA
Remote Full Time

Job description

Job Description Summary Own the editorial strategy across six high-impact medical disciplines and help lead the evolution of trusted clinical content into AI-powered workflows, digital platforms, and licensing partnerships. Build relationships with authors, medical societies, and health IT innovators, developing the commercial instincts and strategic vision that define the next generation of products. Job Description Join an award-winning team within the Medical

Education

and Medical Practice business unit, where we create high-quality clinical content and deliver it across innovative, market-leading solutions. In this strategic role, you will drive editorial excellence while leading the transition of a curated print portfolio toward digital and licensing-based revenue models. Working with clinical AI and health IT partners, internal stakeholders, and a high-value medical society, you will apply deep subject matter judgment and a commercial mindset to position our clinical content as a trusted, authoritative layer in next-generation clinical workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead acquisition strategy across 6 clinical medicine disciplines—neurology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, and addiction medicine—evaluating products against clinical relevance, market demand, and licensing potential. Define the vision and scope for each discipline, with accountability for editorial quality and sustainable integration across proprietary and 3rd party digital platforms. Build and maintain a network of authors and SMEs. Acquire content assets, secure revisions, and develop content suited for multiple digital platforms—collaborating with product marketing, sales, product management, and content development to ensure successful launches. Serve as the internal expert for assigned disciplines, staying current on curricula, market trends, and competitive dynamics, and communicating insights to drive alignment on strategy and go-to-market plans. Drive the transition of print reference titles toward digital products, licensing arrangements, and API-accessible content. Evaluate assets for suitability as structured data, clinical decision support modules, or AI training and verification corpora, and collaborate with product and technology teams on content architecture requirements. Track portfolio performance metrics—print sales trends, digital adoption, and licensing revenue—to inform investment and divestment decisions. Identify and cultivate partnerships with clinical AI developers, EHR platforms, and health IT companies seeking trusted medical reference content for RAG pipelines, clinical decision support, and workflow integration. Develop business cases and licensing proposals, including scope, pricing frameworks, and contractual considerations. Represent the portfolio in partner conversations, articulating the value of peer-reviewed medical reference content as a verification and accuracy layer. Align with marketing and sales to position content against brand messaging and licensing go-to-market strategies, and identify growth opportunities across the portfolio. Serve as primary relationship manager for a medical society book publishing partnership, ensuring contractual obligations, editorial timelines, and quality standards are met. Skills and

Qualifications

Deep editorial judgment in medical or clinical reference content, with the ability to assess accuracy, utility, and market relevance. Demonstrated experience managing print-to-digital transitions or content licensing initiatives in a publishing or information services environment. Strong business development acumen: ability to identify partnership opportunities, build relationships with external organizations, and contribute to licensing negotiations. Project leadership skills; ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously and drive cross-functional alignment. Comfort with performance data; able to use metrics to guide portfolio strategy and editorial investment decisions. Skilled at stakeholder communication, including explaining complex editorial or strategic considerations to non-publishing partners.

Experience

managing external relationships—society partners, clinical advisors, or licensing clients—with professionalism and accountability. Familiarity with clinical AI, health IT, or clinical decision support ecosystems is a strong advantage.

Experience

3+ years of experience in medical or clinical reference publishing or a related field, including editorial acquisitions/strategy, content development, sales, or marketing.

Experience

in the processes related to ideating, developing, and producing clinical reference titles, digital ancillaries, and content assets.

Experience

managing financials of individual products and portfolios, including creating and managing budgets, forecasting, and P&L oversight. Familiarity with processes related to contract negotiation and author/SME management. Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. Strong oral and written communication skills; high degree of professionalism. History of working effectively as part of a team, including cross-functional collaborations. Ability to determine customer needs and market trends. Knowledge of content management and asset development Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills. Strong customer relationship management and partnership skills. Effective presentation skills, oral and written, adjusting delivery to target audience.

Experience

with facilitation of group discussion, dialogue, and the consensus process. Organized, detail-oriented, effectively meets deadlines, set priorities. Confidence in developing and enacting strategic vision. Travel: This position requires 20% domestic travel. Our Interview Practices To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process. 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