United States onlyReady to apply your clinical experience where medicine, technology, product development, and AI converge to drive real impact?
Are you an effective external voice with a track record of building strong partnerships across health systems and academia?
About our Team:
At Elsevier Clinical Solutions, we are redefining how clinicians learn, decide, and deliver care. Our portfolio spans Clinical Decision Support, Competency Management, and Patient Engagement—impacting millions of healthcare decisions globally.
About the role:
The Global Chief Medical Officer (CMO) will serve as our foremost clinical leader—guiding the clinical vision, integrity, and innovation that underpin our solutions. This is a rare opportunity to influence how clinical expertise, data, and AI come together to improve patient outcomes at scale.
You will operate at the intersection of medicine, technology, and strategy. You will ensure that everything we build and deliver is clinically sound, trusted, and impactful—while shaping how clinical insight drives decisions across product development, AI innovation, and customer engagement.
You will also be a visible external voice for Elsevier Clinical Solutions, initiating and partnering with leading health systems, academic institutions, and industry organizations, and help define the future of responsible clinical AI.
Responsibilities:
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.
Lead Clinical Governance and Decision-Making
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.
Ensure we operate with the highest standards of safety, validation, and professionalism.
Champion Responsible AI in Healthcare
Define expectations for how AI should behave in clinical contexts—transparent, explainable, and accountable.
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.
Drive a Seamless Clinical Experience
Ensure a consistent and trusted clinical voice across the entire clinician journey
Align our portfolio to deliver a cohesive experience that strengthens our position as a trusted partner in care delivery.
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.
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working for you
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellbeing: 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
About the business:
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.
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