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Senior Medical Writer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Excellent scientific writing and editing skills
  • Experience developing content for different medical audiences
  • An academic background in life sciences
  • Prior experience working as a senior medical writer for a medical communications agency

Responsibilities

  • Research and develop technical material ensuring accuracy in content and editorial style
  • Partner with clients and KOLs on content development
  • Attend scientific meetings where output is required
  • Ensure all writing meets client's strategic marketing goals

Key facts

Other skills

  • Editing
  • Quality Control
  • Teamwork
  • Relationship Building

About the company

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ApotheCom, an Inizio Company

Public Relations & Communications

ApotheCom is a Global Medical Communications Powerhouse with offices in London, Leeds, Yardley, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Lebanon, Auckland, Tokyo and Johannesburg. Our mission is to be an effective and proactive broker of collaborative and sustained engagement for the healthcare community, to drive meaningful change and positive outcomes. ApotheCom is uniquely able to create and deploy teams across many geographies, pulling on specialized skills and specific market expertise. The team comprises 130 PhDs and PharmDs and more than 250 content developers who understand how to tell the scientific, clinical, and value stories to reach specific audiences. The global team structure supports dedicated practice areas in Scientific Communications and Publications, Medical Education and Access Pathways and Outcomes in addition to therapeutic areas of excellence across chronic diseases, oncology, vaccines and infectious diseases, cell and genes therapies and specialized medicine. The matrix structure has been created to fuel innovation and flexibility, with increased specialization and focus on multi-functional team working. At our core, we bring data agility, integrated evidence planning, scientific and value storytelling, convergence of technology and insight-driven problem-solving. Our single, global team structure with dedicated practice areas and defined therapeutic expertise has been specifically designed to remove every barrier to being able to provide the best expertise in the right place and at the right time for our clients. ApotheCom is part of Inizio Medical. Inizio is a strategic partner for health and life sciences with a full suite of medical, marketing, advisory and engagement services.

Company details

IndustryPublic Relations & Communications
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

About ApotheCom

ApotheCom is an exciting leader in the field of medical communications. We have been drawn together from several backgrounds, including the pharmaceutical industry, research, marketing, medical and regulatory writing, sales, publishing, digital media, and design. This diverse experience gives us the all-round ability to conceive and deliver the best quality medical communications programmes.

Apothecom is part of Inizio, a global healthcare consulting and communications group. This group supports some of the world's leading life sciences companies by providing a full suite of advisory, medical, marketing, communications, and patient and partner engagement services. With over 12,000 employees globally, Inizio creates compelling content and engages communities to achieve outcomes that matter.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Medical Writer to join our team in London / Manchester or UK remote. You will report to the senior scientific leads.

You will research and develop technical material, ensuring that all output follows written brief and is accurate in content and editorial style and references

You will partner with clients and KOL's on content development either through the Account staff or directly, and attend scientific meetings where output is required.

Skills Required

  • You will demonstrate excellent and versatile scientific writing and editing skills (e.g. monographs, training manuals, KOLs slide sets)
  • You will have experience developing content for different medical audiences
  • You will create materials to a high standard and quality, with minimal internal review/assistance
  • Experience writing in a range of media, including print, video, new media (CD-ROM and web-based work)
  • Excellent quality control skills – style/consistency, grammar, scientific accuracy, proof-reading, layout.
  • You will need to ensure all writing meets our client's strategic marketing goals and being of high scientific quality/credibility
  • Understanding of pharmaceutical and health-related issues
  • Ability to work within a team and form productive working relationships within, and external to, iNIZIO
  • Client-centric attitude - ability to work with clients on projects, ensuring they meet strategic marketing and medical needs

Experience

  • Prior experience working as a senior medical writer for a medical communications agency
  • An academic background in life sciences

Excellent benefits package including pension and private medical.

Office-based, hybrid or remote working available

Our Pledge

At Inizio, we value inclusivity, recognise the power of diversity and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity and inclusion. We aim to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

 

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