Associate or Senior Editor, BMC Medicine

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, BMC Medicine

Location: Shanghai or New York, Hybrid Working Model

Application Deadline: July 6th, 2026

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About The Brand

BMC has more than 25 years of experience in developing open access and provides high-quality, impactful research and a supportive publishing experience for authors. We are committed to publishing the best open access journals in our portfolio of over 250 titles and we strive to drive progress in biology, health sciences and medicine. Visit biomedcentral.com and follow @BioMedCentral

About The Role

You will contribute to the success of BMC Medicine by supporting editorial handling of content and content development in the oncology and endocrinology fields. 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.

Role 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 & Qualifications:


Essential

• Educated to PhD level (or equivalent), in biomedical field, ideally within oncology and/or endocrinology.
• 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.

To apply, please submit:

• a CV
• a cover letter explaining your interest in the post and their preferred office of employment.

Springer Nature Skills associated with this Job Profile include:

SN-Manuscript Assessment, SN-Critical Scientific Evaluation, SN-Scientific Comprehension, SN-Collaboration, SN-Publishing Workflows & Systems, SN-Decision Quality, SN-Communicates Effectively, SN-Scientific & Academic Writing, SN-Being Resilient, SN-Operational Excellence, SN-Interpersonal Awareness

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