Manager, Content Editing

OVERVIEW

The Manager, Content Editing leads an editorial team supporting content across the Lexidrug portfolio. This role oversees daily operations, team development, and content quality, ensuring accurate, consistent, and timely delivery aligned with editorial standards and business objectives. The manager coordinates priorities and resources, partners with clinical and cross-functional stakeholders, and implements workflow improvements. This role supports the ongoing evolution of trusted, structured drug information to meet user needs and enable product innovation, content reuse, and AI-enabled applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Team leadership and development: Supervise daily team activities, provide clear direction, and support onboarding, training, coaching, and professional development while fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Operational oversight: Set priorities, allocate team resources, and coordinate workloads to deliver departmental objectives and meet established deadlines and project timelines.
• Editorial quality: Oversee content editing and review processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and adherence to editorial guidelines, quality standards, and applicable requirements.
• Quality governance and issue resolution: Implement established content quality guidelines, coordinate review cycles, and resolve or escalate content-related issues as appropriate.
• Cross-functional coordination: Partner with clinical leads, contributors, consultants, and other departments to align work activities, address dependencies, and support timely content delivery.
• Continuous improvement: Monitor content quality and workflow outcomes, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement changes that reduce errors and strengthen efficiency and consistency.
• Content strategy and modernization: Contribute to departmental content plans and execute assigned initiatives that improve content usefulness, structure, and reuse across Lexidrug products and AI-enabled applications.
• People-management accountability: Manage individual performance and contribute to hiring and other personnel decisions, with guidance and final approval from higher-level leadership as appropriate.

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Technical Skills: Experience working in Microsoft Word, Excel, XML, and a Content Management System
• Subject Matter Expertise: Knowledge of medical and pharmaceutical terminology
• Utilizes desktop editing, document management programs, or proprietary software to enter text, verify or edit XML, and/or to enter codified drug-related data in accordance with the policies and processes for each content type.
• Content Editing: Understanding of content quality standards and editorial guidelines.
• Team Leadership: Ability to manage, mentor, and motivate entry-level professionals.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written skills to provide clear guidance.
• Time Management: Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Attention to Detail: Keen eye for identifying and correcting errors in content.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to address and resolve content-related issues efficiently.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education: B.A. or B.S. in English, Journalism, Health Sciences, etc., or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in content editing.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in medical content editing

• Minimum 1 year of demonstrated leadership and project management experience.

• Minimum 1 year of supervisory experience.

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.

Compensation:

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.

Additional Information:

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.

Originally posted on Himalayas