Managing Editor, Peer Review

Location : Hybrid : East Windsor, NJ, or Malvern, PA (3 days in-office / 2 days work-from-home)

Bonus : Discretionary end-of-year bonus

Benefits : Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, Life, 401k (with discretionary match)

Travel : Twice a year to our SAWC Spring and SAWC Fall conferences and as needed (minimal travel)

Reports to : Associate Editorial Director, Wound Care

HMP is a leading healthcare event and education company, with a dominant position in several therapeutic areas including Oncology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Cardiovascular, Wound Care and Public Safety. With a mission to improve patient care, we deliver information and education to healthcare professionals through 400+ global, regional, and local events and reach over 4 million users monthly through digital networks and social channels.

We are currently seeking a Managing Editor with experience managing a peer-reviewed medical journal. You will own the end-to-end journal operations for a high-impact, multidisciplinary publication and ensure editorial excellence, ethical rigor, and on-time publication.

Key responsibilities

• Run day-to-day peer review in an editorial management system : triage, assign reviewers, decision letters, revisions, and acceptance workflow.
• Maintain reviewer / editor databases; recruit, onboard, and retain diverse reviewers and guest editors; monitor performance and load balance.
• Drive timeliness and quality KPIs : time-to-first-decision, acceptance-to-publication, reviewer turnaround, and issue delivery.
• Implement and enforce authorship and reporting standards (eg, ICMJE Recommendations; COPE flowcharts / guidance; CRediT taxonomy; trial registration; CONSORT / PRISMA / STROBE as applicable).
• Oversee ethical screening : plagiarism (eg, iThenticate), COI / IRB / animal welfare compliance, corrections / retractions, and appeals.
• Manage manuscript-to-publication workflow : copyediting (AMA style), figure / table QA, permissions, layout / typesetting, proofs, final sign-off, and online publication.
• Oversee metadata and indexing (eg, CrossRef, PubMed, WoS).
• Serve as primary staff liaison to the Editorial Board : recruit members, set expectations, support peer-review quality initiatives, and drive strategic content plans.
• Plan and deliver conference coverage (eg, SAWC Spring & Fall).
• Develop author and reviewer resources (submission checklists, reporting templates, ethics FAQs, reviewer training).
• Partner with Sales / Marketing to understand advertiser goals and timelines; operationalize sponsored content and compliant formats with strict guardrails (labels, firewalls, peer-review standards, disclosure).
• Forecast content inventory that supports—but is never dictated by—commercial needs.

Desired Skills and Experience

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