Head of Content

Surrey, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the medical copywriting and creative direction across media, balancing scientific accuracy with persuasive storytelling while guiding a high-performing team and shaping client partnerships for strategic impact.

  • Own creative direction and medical storytelling across digital, web, social, and experiential channels, balancing scientific accuracy with award-worthy storytelling.
  • Lead team development, client briefing, and new-business ideation, ensuring cost-aware delivery and strong cross-functional collaboration with Strategy, Medical, Digital, and CX leads.

Job Description

Own the medical copywriting and creative direction across media, balancing scientific accuracy with persuasive storytelling while guiding a high-performing team and shaping client partnerships for strategic impact.

  • Actively write, conceptualise, and oversee medical copywriting and creative work across a broad range of media (concepts, websites, animations, social media, gamification, etc).
  • Transform complex science into clear, persuasive, and award-winning creative storytelling that benchmarks against international standards
  • Actively contribute to and lead brainstorms based on client briefs, ensuring a deep understanding of brand and customer experience (Cx) strategy.
  • Optimize and evolve network approaches to content generation, embracing modular content, AI, and emerging tech to balance high-impact creativity with production efficiency.
  • In partnership with the Creative Directors, manage, nurture, and support the day-to-day running of the copywriting and medical copywriting team.
  • Coach and develop the creative and strategic thinking of writers, designers, art directors, strategists, and account managers to elevate all creative outputs.
  • Support the booking, scheduling, and distribution of the content team, managing direct reports, freelance support, and external suppliers.
  • Build strong, trusted relationships with clients, guiding them through the complexities of creative concepting, output development, and production.
  • Identify, unlock, and pitch new creative opportunities for existing and prospective clients, participating actively in new business pitches.
  • Ensure all creative ideas and executions align with commercial forecasts, remain realistic to client budgets, and comply with agency financial policies.
  • A rare combination of a highly trained medical writer and an awarded creative copywriter/idea generator.
  • Extensive experience writing, leading, and managing a medical/creative copywriting team within a healthcare communications agency setting.
  • A proven track record of creating inspiring, strategic, and innovative ideas across a wide range of platforms (digital, social, experiential, print, and medical communications).
  • Exceptional ability to translate complex medical data into persuasive, commercially relevant narratives without losing scientific integrity.
  • An articulate and persuasive presenter who can effortlessly sell creative concepts to internal stakeholders and external clients.
  • Strong competency in managing project budgets, understanding commercial business drivers, and navigating the pharmaceutical regulatory environment.
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Havas Life London

We are an award-winning, fully integrated medical communications agency that is 100% dedicated to creating standout communications in healthcare. We are part of Havas Health.In this changing landscape, we believe that truly successful communications start by strategically aligning promotion, medical education and PR, across the product lifecycle. Our experience spans numerous disease areas and ranges from pre-launch creative concepts and marketing plan development to post-launch communications. We have knowledge and experience of UK and international healthcare schemes, from peer-review publication planning through to consumer education; from strategic consultancy to effective tactical implementation.

Thames Ditton, England, GBR
109 employees (48 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
21.1%
Direct
63.9%
Referral
8.5%
Social
4.3%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~107

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
31 (28% of company)