Associate or Senior Editor, BMC Medicine – Shanghai – Hybrid working model

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, BMC Medicine

Location(s): Shanghai – Hybrid working model

Application Deadline: June 25th, 2025

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About The Role

BMC Medicine is a selective journal that publishes outstanding research and reviews in all areas of medicine and public health.

We are looking for one full time editor, who will contribute to the success of BMC Medicine by supporting editorial handling of content and content development across the field of medicine. The successful candidate will be able to handle papers across all areas of medicine, including public health, clinical epidemiology, clinical, basic and translational medicine. This is a dynamic and varied role and will contribute to the success of BMC as a whole.

Communication is a key part of this role, as you will need to build excellent and productive relationships with both the internal and external editorial teams that contribute to BMC Medicine. You will also develop close relationships with other internal teams that contribute to the success of BMC Medicine, such as Editorial Operations, Production and Marketing.

Responsibilities

Ensure quality in manuscript handling and published content

• Oversee the handling of the content published in BMC Medicine, by both handling individual submissions yourself and advising on content handled by editorial board members, as directed by the Chief Editor.
• In all instances, ensure that appropriate editorial standards are upheld, and the BMC Medicine editorial ethos is maintained.
• Advise on editorial policy development as appropriate.
• Support the investigation and resolution of publishing or research ethics cases, as appropriate.

Contribute to external Editorial Board development

• Contribute to the recruitment and training of  new EBMs as needed to support journal operations and development.
• Contribute to EBM engagement initiatives across BMC Medicine.

Contribute to journal development

• Initiate and contribute to journal development, participating in strategy discussions and sharing your expertise to help in the generation of journal development plans. 
• Work with colleagues across the Journals group to support subject-specific strategy development at BMC Medicine.
• Drive the transfer of appropriate submissions to the most suitable destination journal, prioritising author service while adhering to the editorial standards of the journal.
• Encourage submission of high quality manuscripts via author outreach and journal strategy.

Build awareness of BMC Medicine

• Support special projects within BMC Medicine to increase journal visibility, promote BMC Medicine values, and attract content.
• Contribute to the efforts of the Marketing team, providing input into marketing plans, campaigns and materials.
• Develop journal website content and features to raise the profile of BMC Medicine in the online environment.

Support the BMC Medicine team

• Contribute to the culture of the BMC Medicine editorial team by supporting your colleagues, covering for them when needed and sharing expertise and experience.

Experience, skills and qualifications

Essential

• Educated to PhD level (or equivalent), in biomedical field, ideally within clinical and molecular oncology, or global and public health.
• Interested in promoting the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and in particular, open access publishing
• Excellent communication skills: tactful, professional and persuasive
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills, able to balance short-term deadlines with long-term goals
• Highly customer focused
• Strong analytical skills
• Willing to travel occasionally and represent BMC Medicine at external events
• Able to respond to non-routine circumstances
• Self-motivated, with a positive, can-do approach
• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances
• Ability to work cooperatively with colleagues at all levels in a team environment
• Editorial experience preferred but not essential.

Capabilities

Technical Capability

• Uses scientific and technical/job knowledge and experience to meet and exceed job requirements/customer expectations. Efficiently manages workload and projects within set timelines and to agreed budget, achieving set objectives.

Problem Solving

• Takes initiative to identify current and potential problems and determines the best solution. Identifies the cause of problems and key issues through investigation; identifies effective, logical and practical solutions.

Relationship Building/Teamwork (incorporating Communication, Influencing and Trust)

• Builds effective relationships through positive communication that motivates and influences others. Honest and trustworthy; a valued team member, actively involved in achieving team objectives. Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team.

Customer Focus (internal and external customers)

• Nurtures relationships by recognising and delivering on internal and external customer’s needs and opinions. Helps others to understand the implications of their decisions. Develops and sustains productive internal and external customer relationships.

Extra Capabilities for Senior Editor

Managing Complexity (incorporating change management and flexibility)

• Is able to work effectively in a highly complex, diverse, changing environment. Maintains a high level of performance under conditions of increased pressure, competition and adversity. proactively pursues opportunities to drive change that add value to the business

Personal Effectiveness (incorporating results focused, productivity, ownership, delegation)

• Produces outstanding results both professionally and personally by being proactive and committed. Continually focuses on achieving positive results contributing to the overall success of the business.

Goal Setting/Short term Planning (incorporating decision making, planning and organisation, and tenacity)

• Achieves results by setting goals using quality planning, analysis and decision making skills. Sets very structured plans and thinks through all possible contingencies.

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