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Senior Medical Copywriter

Havas Life London
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4 weeks ago
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Senior Science Communicator

As an agency group specialising in brand promotion, disease awareness, PR, events, social media, digital engagement, and medical communication, we are undergoing a significant transformation.

We aim to be recognised internationally for our award-winning ideas. Our success will be pivotal in enhancing the reputation and growth of the Havas Health network.


We will be vibrant collaborators, uniting multiple disciplines and agency offerings for the benefit of our clients and the creative platforms we develop for them. We expect more from ourselves and those who are successful in joining our high-performance team.


Adjusting our perspective, behaviours, and capabilities to foster a creative culture will be a challenging and exciting journey. For the right person, this will be a career-defining period. Your role in our business transformation will likely determine how far your star will rise.


We have an opportunity to be the shining light in the Havas Life network. We will demonstrate how an agency can be highly successful across multiple disciplines while helping each other and our network partners grow through our powerful creative culture. You will be key to driving this. It will take a combination of your capability, charm, guile, energy, and intellect.


You are passionate about health and creativity. This is your calling.


The role


You will take ownership of complex projects across a wide ranging medical communications deliverables and be responsible for ensuring the quality and scientific integrity of medical writing in partnership with the client services team. You will take the lead in the generation of content for commercial launches, message architecture/narratives, and sales materials amongst others. You contribute with the mentoring of the writing team to further develop therapy areas, content delivery, and medical communications knowledge.


Core Duties & Responsibilities


  • Intimately understand client and competitor products, therapy areas, portfolio and commercial strategy in the context of the current and future market
  • Keep up-to-date with industry codes of practice/legislation and external issues or events that may affect existing accounts
  • Work across several accounts/therapy areas to support junior writers
  • Act as the Technical Lead on designated, large client projects
  • Achieve a consistently excellent quality of medical writing
  • Demonstrate strong briefing and reviewing skills
  • Assist with the monitoring and promotion of quality control processes and procedures
  • Partner with the client services teams and wider agency network to ensure all account objectives are met
  • Build relationships, and liaise effectively, with clients and external experts
  • Attend meetings in the UK or elsewhere, providing on-site support as required
  • Identify opportunities to maximise existing client accounts
  • Provide high-level writing support for proposal development and actively participate in pitch development
  • When appropriate, contribute to the development of project specifications, cost estimates, and reconciliations
  • Monitor project costs against agreed budgets and notify the Client Services team of any changes to specification at the earliest opportunity
  • Communicate clearly to team members at all times, schedule and budget guidelines and contribute to prioritisation discussions across teams
  • Contribute to the development of account plan forecasts in liaison with client services leads


The person


  • Proven medical writing experience within a healthcare communications agency, with knowledge of a broad range of communications activities
  • The ability to tailor your writing style appropriately for different target audiences
  • Life science degree educated, ideally with a higher qualification MSc or PhD
  • In-depth working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry
  • Strong organisational, time management, and people skills
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