Senior Medical Writer I - London, United Kingdom - Langland

Langland

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Company Description

Who we are

Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Policy, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients.

What we believe
Health brings us together.

In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity.

When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together.

A passion for craft
Having expert thinking is only part of our story.

To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts:
science, strategy and creativity.

Job Description:

Owing to a recent business win, Langland's Medical Strategy & Education Team are now looking to hire a new Senior Medical Writer I.

At this senior level position, you will be the content lead on several key accounts, responsible for both ideating and creating scientifically sound, strategic and impactful content for a range of initiatives (including congress activities, training materials, and medical and marketing programmes), and for guiding more junior writers on all aspects of their development.

Job responsibilities:

Develops clear, compelling and userfriendly content from brief development at the outset through to project delivery with little guidance
Provides strong scientific counsel across 2 therapy areas/account teams
Ensures the timely daytoday delivery of scientific content, ensuring quality, scientific accuracy and integrity
Trains and mentors junior writers on editorial skills and company processes (with guidance), ensuring high standards are maintained; may provide people management with the guidance of an experienced people manager
Provides research and content support for pitch development and other new business initiatives; identifies the strategic implications of product data and the therapeutic landscape and confidently presents their research in pitches
Provides training for the full team on good practice/industry guidelines

If you are ready to join our ambitious team and play a role in the development and delivery of high-quality medical education programmes, whilst experiencing a myriad of personal and professional development opportunities and collaborating across our four health disciplines, we'd love to hear from you.

Furthermore, we operate a flexible working policy to help ensure your work-life balance is maintained, so whether you want to work from home or from our offices, we can accommodate.

Qualifications:

Your approach

Creative: willing to sensitively challenge the status quo
Strategic: able to understand the big picture as well as the fine details
Proactive: able to organise and drive your own work
Communicative: eager to work with others in an integrated team

Your skills and experience

Good at understanding and communicating complex science (you should hold a bachelor's degree in the life sciences [2:1 or above] and ideally a master's degree or PhD)
Able to develop strong relationships based on exceptional verbal, as well as written, communication abilities and comfortable providing advice and guidance to others
Medical writing experience within a medical communications agency or an inhouse pharma med comms team, demonstrating:
The ability to craft standard communications to high editorial and scientific standards with mínimal supervision, and more complex communications to the same standards with supervision
Management of client and expert communications relating to content creation
Review of content to ensure high standards and brief alignment
Guidance of junior writer development through informal or formal mentorship

Additional Information

An inclusive workplace
The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Here are some of the ways we help promote diversity at Publicis Health.

Recruitment

Diversity & Inclusion management
Anonymised CV submissions
Mandatory unconscious bias training
Career and school programmes to build industry access for people from mixed socioeconomic backgrounds

Culture