PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS NOT AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION.
Medical Writer
Our Medical Writers play a fundamental role in our business by contributing to day-to-day project delivery within an account to create outstanding medical content across a variety of therapy areas. This position is ideal for a proactive communicator with a passion for science, a keen interest in AI, and a keen eye for detail who is looking to develop their medical writing career further.
Key Responsibilities
Scientific knowledge:
- Has a good understanding of assigned therapeutic areas
- Effectively analyses and interprets scientific data to work on a wide range of assigned projects
Strategic knowledge:
- Understands the medical affairs and commercial spaces within which clients work
- Reviews literature and competitive information to continually expand understanding of brand/marketplace and emerging competitors and shares findings and implications with teams
- Participates in meetings and strategic discussions with clients, authors, and advisors
AI
- Confidently and efficiently uses AI tools to support assigned tasks, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in their work
- Seeks out new opportunities to apply AI tools in to improve personal workflow and task management
Project ownership:
- Takes some responsibility for day-to-day delivery of scientific content under supervision of MWII or SMW and higher
- Ensures communication objectives are met on assigned projects
Editorial:
- Adapts writing style to suit different audiences (e.g. primary and secondary care physicians, nurses or patients)
- Structure and writes more commercially focused or complicated materials such as story flows/strategicframeworks, competitor intelligence, advisory board reports, etc. with clear supervision from SMW or higher
Quality control:
- Ensures all work is referenced appropriately and is provided with a full reference pack
- Ensures all work is tagged appropriately on VVPM
- Is fully adherent to and shows a good working knowledge the ABPI code of conduct
- Demonstrates knowledge of good practice/industry guidelines and ensures project work is compliant with these with supervision from senior team
On site: May go on-site across a variety of events and interacting with clients and faculty to develop and finalise content
Client liaison: Has begun to have client contact for content development on straight-forward projects and escalates queries in more challenging scenarios
Project management
- Adheres to project schedules and briefs
- Understands key dates in project timelines and keeps the account team apprised of status on projects by providing timely and accurate communication
- Proactively clarifies how a project status is tracking versus the number of hours available
- Participates in the tracking of project deliverables, identifying impact of out-of-scope changes
- Adheres to project budgets, or proactively provides appropriate reasons not to
Teamwork: Trains/mentors junior writers on writing and company processes
Qualifications and skills
- You should bring a strong scientific background with a degree in a scientific or medical discipline (post-graduate degree preferred). A high level of academic achievement is expected
- A passion for, and profound understanding of, healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential, as well as a keen interest in AI technologies
- You’ll need to be personable, articulate, and have a keen eye for detail
- You should bring previous experience as a medical writer at an agency or within a pharmaceutical organisation
