Associate Acquisitions Editor

Job Description:

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

As the Associate Acquisitions Editor, you will be joining a leading global trade book publishing team and will have the opportunity to contribute to one of our largest and most dynamic programs related to business, success and self-improvement topics. As the Associate Acquisitions Editor, you will be responsible for the acquisition of 16-20 books per year and will manage an overall list to ensure profitability.

As the Associate Acquisitions Editor, you will bring an entrepreneurial spirit and an energetic, positive attitude to successfully identify opportunities and manage author relationships and ultimately bring impactful books to the market. We are looking to add a team member who is enthusiastic about acquisitions and who is motivated to sign and build a list.

Job Responsibilities:

· Signs a minimum of 16 books per year - primarily non-revisions and new authors - and ensures that each project meets profit goals.

· Works to refine overall strategy including identifying new sub-areas, performing market research, monitoring sales results, and analyzing sales channels.

· Champions projects throughout the publication lifecycle by developing and articulating visions for each project and by collaborating with production, marketing and others as needed.

· Practices effective and diplomatic communication skills to propose and implement solutions for keeping titles on track.

· Manages project and schedule follow-up; handles author queries and troubleshoots when necessary.

· Meets with authors, vendors, and agents to network and develop relationships.

· Explains to authors their role in the marketing, sales, and success of their titles.

· Meets established goals for growth and profit.

Required Qualifications:

· Minimum three years of experience in publishing, specifically with book acquisitions.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs.

· Experience and/or interest in business, entrepreneurship and/or wellness subject areas.

· Demonstrated mastery of publishing systems, cycles and activities.

· Demonstrated ability to effectively analyze potential authors and projects, identify the right projects and shape them for an audience.

· Excellent written and oral communication and the ability to be persuasive and direct, yet tactful.

· Ability to negotiate contracts, schedules and other efforts.

· Project management skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks and agendas. Detail oriented with attention to deadlines and a productive and focused work pattern. Ability to move publication projects smoothly from beginning to end.

· Ability to build and manage relationships with authors and team members.

· Self-motivated, flexible, curious, energetic, outgoing.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Prior experience working at a trade publisher.

· Knowledge of AI tools.

· Ability to apply financial understanding of publishing to the overall strategy.

We power infinite possibilities.

For more than 200 years, we’ve transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what’s next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere.

We’re not just observers of progress. We’re the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.

Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

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