Global Chief Medical Officer

Role Overview

• Be the Voice of Clinical Trust Represent Elsevier as a senior clinical authority in high-impact customer engagements, partnerships, global forums and digital marketing.
• Build enduring relationships with healthcare leaders, academic institutions, and professional societies.
• Serve as a thought leader in clinical AI, evidence-based practice, and digital health transformation.
• Ensure that products are optimized to deliver utmost clinical value to users by evangelizing clinician needs.
• Define Clinical Value at Scale Establish what “great” looks like for clinical value across our solutions—from decision support to Competency Management.
• Define a holistic content strategy to evolve current products from providing reference information to providing advanced clinical decision support.
• Assess content data strategy and utilization to inform overarching roadmaps.
• Ensure our products deliver measurable, real-world impact for clinicians and patients.
• Create consistent standards for evidence, transparency, and trust across the portfolio.
• Own how critical clinical decisions are made, escalated, and resolved across the business.
• Act as the ultimate arbiter to ensure clinical efficacy and quality aligns with technical or commercial priorities.
• Partner with product and data science teams to ensure innovation is grounded in clinical best practice and overall efficacy.
• Help shape industry standards for responsible, evidence-based AI.
• Ensure a consistent and trusted clinical voice across the entire clinician journey.

Requirements

• MD/DO (or international equivalent), board-certified, with a strong foundation in clinical practice.
• Experience in academic medicine and a passion for advancing evidence-based care.
• Senior leadership experience in healthcare technology, clinical products, or health systems.
• A track record of influencing complex organizations and driving strategic outcomes.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage clinicians, executives, and technical teams alike.
• Global experience across healthcare markets, preferred.
• Experience with clinical AI, data-driven products, or governance frameworks at scale.
• Established thought leadership in clinical innovation or digital health.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice