Business Editor

BioSpace is the leading online community for industry news and careers for life science professionals. For over 30 years, BioSpace has provided essential insights, opportunities and tools to connect innovative organizations and talented professionals who advance health and quality of life across the globe. Our team operates with a fun, entrepreneurial style that combines our passion and high-energy with an aggressive vision of growing BioSpace.

BioSpace's audience and subscriber base is growing. We are striving to continue building growth and audience loyalty through quality journalism.

BioSpace has an exciting opportunity for an editor to take ownership of our business beat, help us evolve our editorial strategy and uncover major industry stories and topics in the biotech world. Reporting to the Managing Editor, this role will be responsible for proactively identifying opportunities to help differentiate BioSpace's biotech coverage.

The role will be fully remote or hybrid (based in the West Des Moines, Iowa area and working in-office Monday through Wednesday and from home Thursday and Friday).

In this position you will:

• Write multiple bylines per week about biopharma business dealings and update related trackers
  
• Proactively identify and recommend enterprising story ideas to personally pursue or assign to freelancers
  
• Assign and edit business stories written by freelancers
  
• Develop and maintain relationships with PR media agencies, investment analysts and other key industry sources to provide commentary and story leads
  
• Curate our weekly BioPharm Exec email with exclusive content and put together a special newsletter edition once/quarter
  
• Track newsletter engagement and site traffic to business stories to inform future coverage, with the goal of growing readership/subscriber base
  
• Ensure that BioSpace editorial standards are maintained
  
• Provide press coverage on key industry events (may require travel 2-3 times a year)
  
• Monitor news-gathering operations and keep abreast of industry news flow
  
  Position requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in English, journalism, communications, or the life sciences; advanced degree preferred
    
  • 4+ years of journalism experience covering business dealings, preferably within the biopharma industry; editing experience preferred
    
  • Impeccable writing and organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy
    
  • Knowledge of the AP Style Guide and copyediting
    
  • Strong communication skills
    
  • Proven ability to develop and cultivate relationships with industry sources
    
  • Proactive approach to identifying editorial opportunities
    
  • Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, online publishing environment
    
  • Working knowledge of SEO fundamentals and digital publishing
    
  • Ability to work independently and collaborate freely with team members
    
    BioSpace offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including the week off between Dec 25 and Jan 1
    
    Interested candidates should apply through our online applicant tracking system. Questions may be emailed to:
    
    Pre-employment background check required.