Senior Medical Writer

London, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own medical writing leadership across multiple client brands and therapy areas, ensuring compliant, high quality copy while mentoring juniors and shaping client relationships.

  • Lead client brand activity and serve as the go to writer across therapy areas and media formats.
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and efficient UX/formatting of copy across channels.
  • Collaborate with Client Services to exceed client expectations and drive professional development for the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As a Senior Medical Writer, you will work collaboratively with internal teams to add significant value - applying the benefit of your experience to guide projects, ensuring any copy produced by you and your team is appropriate to the brief and of a high quality.
  • You will work with Client Services to front client relationships as appropriate, ensuring the Copy function is always represented appropriately.
  • You will work on client brand activity and be the ‘go-to’ writer across a number of clients and therapy areas
  • Generate original content to be used within a range of media and for a range of audiences, in line with the relevant code of practice and brand communication objectives
  • You will produce and edit copy into the correct format for use across various media as appropriate, drawing on your experience to consider the suitability of UX and project flow
  • You will work closely with the Client Services team to devise solutions that fulfil and exceed client expectations, and make innovative suggestions
  • You will mentor juniors and take overall responsibility for their involvement, actively progressing their personal development
  • You will continually expand your excellent knowledge of industry regulations (e.g. the ABPI Code of Practice) and the medical approval processes (Zinc and Veeva)

Requirements

  • 3 + years experience as a medical writer in an agency setting across creative/promotional medical writing
  • One of the priorities for this role is that you must have prior experience in a creative healthcare comms (i.e. advertising/marketing) agency across promotional materials
  • Oncology experience
  • Some line management experience
  • ABPI experience
  • Experience working with global pharmaceutical companies and creative briefs
  • Ideally, you have experience working with Generative AI tools and data, along with AI certifications from platforms such as Coursera, Section AI, or LinkedIn and learning.
  • This role is based in Manchester, and our current hybrid working arrangement requires office attendance on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.

Benefits

  • A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters.
  • We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes.
  • Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.
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Havas Lynx

We are a leading healthcare communications agency with a full-service global offering and over 500 multi-disciplinary specialists in Manchester, London, and New York.For 37 years, we’ve brought together fresh perspectives, creative thinking, and a progressive approach to partner with our clients, healthcare professionals and patients in finding solutions for the modern-day healthcare landscape.Ultimately, everything we do is about making a genuine and lasting impact.

Founded in 1986
Manchester, England, GBR
432 employees (143 in marketing)

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