Content Acquisition Specialist

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £25.6k - £34.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Content Marketing Manager

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Wiley

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5001 - 10000 employees

📚 Education

🔬 Science

Education • Science

Wiley is a global publishing and information services company that connects researchers, educators, students, and professionals through scholarly journals, books, digital content, and learning platforms. It operates Wiley Online Library with thousands of journals, reference works, and books, provides textbooks and courseware (including rental and digital access), and offers publishing, research support, and AI-enabled tools and services for academic institutions, R&D teams, societies, and corporations. Wiley advances research discovery and professional learning by combining trusted content with technology platforms, licensing, and development services.

📋 Description

• Identify and develop special content ideas aligned to journal and portfolio objectives • Work with Editors-in-Chief, Guest Editors, Publishers, and internal teams to develop special issues and related content projects • Use data and research insights to identify emerging topics, potential contributors, Guest Editors, and opportunities • Build and maintain relationships with researchers, editors, and internal stakeholders across subject areas • Coordinate multiple content acquisition projects, tracking activity and progress • Support journal visibility through researcher engagement, conferences, webinars, virtual events, and outreach • Maintain quality, attention to detail, and responsiveness across content acquisition workflows • Collaborate on team projects to improve efficiency, scalability, and ways of working

🎯 Requirements

• Experience working with the research community and/or in STM publishing, scholarly publishing, content acquisition, commissioning, or editorial environments • Strong research credibility or relevant publishing/content acquisition experience • Strong communication skills for building trust and engaging internal and external stakeholders • Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and projects • Interest in scholarly publishing, research communication, and journal development • Analytical skills and confidence using data for decision-making • Strong attention to detail and proactive, collaborative approach • Excellent spoken and written English • Willingness to travel where needed, particularly for conferences, workshops, or researcher engagement • Preferred: experience with special issues, article collections, commissioning activity, or content acquisition • Preferred: experience with Editors-in-Chief, Guest Editors, authors, reviewers, or research communities • Preferred: familiarity with bibliometric data, journal performance metrics, Excel, Power BI, VOSviewer, Scopus, Dimensions, or similar tools • Preferred: experience supporting webinars, conferences, researcher outreach, or community engagement • PhD, MSc, or equivalent higher degree preferred but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Meeting-free Friday afternoons for heads-down work and professional development • Wide range of employee programs supporting community, learning, and growth • Comprehensive benefits package • Competitive compensation • Continual learning and internal mobility • Support for health and well-being • Reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities