Lead Publishing Consultant – Innovation & Partnerships

Wolters Kluwer Health

Role Overview

The Lead Publishing Consultant – Innovation & Partnerships is a senior portfolio-level role focused on driving publishing innovation, enabling strategic growth, and strengthening society and institutional partnerships across Wolters Kluwer Health’s medical publishing portfolio.

The role acts as a central expert and enablement function, shaping how new publishing partnerships and business opportunities are identified, structured, and scaled across clinical and medical publishing domains.

Working across publishing, editorial, product, legal, operations, pricing, and research integrity teams, the role provides structured frameworks, market insights, and strategic guidance that support consistent, scalable, and commercially sound decision-making.

This is an individual contributor role with no line management responsibility, operating through influence, expertise, and cross-functional leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Publishing Innovation & Market Intelligence

• Track developments in medical and clinical publishing, including business models, digital transformation, competitor activity, and evolving healthcare information needs
• Translate market trends, internal analytics, and customer insights into actionable recommendations for portfolio strategy
• Identify opportunities to innovate across publishing models, content delivery formats, and product positioning within clinical workflows
• Develop scalable frameworks to evaluate, prioritize, and support innovation initiatives across the portfolio

Society Partnerships & Business Development

• Drive a centralized, proactive approach to identifying and developing new society and institutional publishing partnerships
• Lead the structuring and design of new publishing partnerships, including society agreements and selected strategic growth opportunities (including potential M&A-related activity where relevant)
• Provide expert support to Publishing Directors and Publishers in complex or high-value partnership discussions
• Develop standardized tools, frameworks, and governance models for partnership evaluation, onboarding, and lifecycle management
• Support early-stage opportunity development and ensure smooth transition of new partnerships into operational ownership

Industry Policy, Regulatory Change & Operational Improvement

• Act as a central point of expertise on STM and healthcare publishing policy developments, including open access mandates, funder requirements, and regulatory change
• Assess implications of industry and policy shifts for commercial models, operations, and reputational risk
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve publishing workflows and cross-functional processes across the portfolio
• Support consistent adoption of best practices across publishing and editorial operations

AI, Technology & Research Integrity

• Contribute to a coordinated portfolio strategy for AI and emerging technologies in medical publishing and clinical content workflows
• Identify and evaluate high-impact AI use cases, particularly in editorial efficiency, content development, and workflow optimization
• Assess implications of AI adoption for clinical content integrity, editorial standards, and customer trust
• Work closely with Research Integrity and compliance stakeholders to ensure innovation aligns with ethical, regulatory, and quality standards
• Act as a connector between innovation, editorial, product, and integrity functions to ensure aligned implementation of new technologies

Key Relationships

• Publishing Directors and Publishers
• Editorial and Product Leadership
• Legal, Compliance, Pricing, Operations, and Research Integrity teams
• External medical societies and institutional partners
• Clinical and professional healthcare stakeholders (indirectly via publishing products)

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant experience in medical, clinical, or STM publishing (healthcare publishing strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of: publishing innovation, society partnerships/business development, or portfolio-level strategy
• Strong understanding of healthcare publishing policy environment, including open access, funder mandates, and research integrity standards
• Familiarity with AI and digital transformation in clinical or professional information contexts
• Strong ability to influence across complex, matrixed organizations without formal authority
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to translate complex market, regulatory, and operational dynamics into clear strategic direction

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.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.