Responsibilities

• Leads and is part of a pod of writers serving various business partners, delivering branded creative that consistently maintains high standards in support of client goals.
• Continuously coaches and develops copywriters while maintaining high standards for brand voice and guidelines, customer experience, and scientific accuracy.
• Guides copywriters on balancing creativity with scientific accuracy, ensuring messaging remains faithful to approved claims, intended use, and supporting evidence while maximizing customer impact.
• Leads the full creative journey alongside UX, brand, and creative managers—from planning, mapping, and strategy to writing, editing, and proofreading the final output of the written/verbal communication.
• Helps lead copy processes and resourcing, ensuring the team's consistency and readiness to achieve strategic objectives, budgets, and timelines.
• Leads with a strong creative vision, inspiring and guiding writing teams through concept development to deliver cohesive, high-impact ideas.
• Demonstrates exceptional judgment in simplifying complex scientific concepts into persuasive marketing without introducing inaccuracies, unsupported claims, or messaging that could create medical or regulatory concerns.
• Builds strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization and thrives in cross-functional team environments.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments, strategically balancing multiple priorities while maintaining both speed and accuracy.
• Builds trusted partnerships across Marketing, Product Management, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Commercial teams to influence messaging strategy and creative direction.

Requirements

• 10+ years related experience in leading creative writing strategy with a focus on creative and technical writing within diagnostics, life sciences, healthcare, medical devices, or similarly regulated scientific industries
• Bachelor's Degree - Marketing, Communications, English, Journalism, Advertising or similar
• Demonstrated experience translating dense scientific, clinical, or technical content into compelling marketing communications.
• Strong understanding of the unique challenges of marketing within regulated healthcare, diagnostics, or life sciences environments.
• Comfortable collaborating with subject matter experts to ensure scientific accuracy while maintaining engaging, customer-centric messaging.
• Talent for high-caliber creative ideation and marketing writing, and experience in writing and directing copy for both on and off-line marketing collateral.
• Outstanding writing skills demonstrating excellent grammar, attention to detail, and story construction skills.
• Experience leading a creative writing team and strong understanding of advertising and marketing principles, strategies, tactics, technologies and production.
• Ability to communicate effectively; strong presentation skills, and ability to respond well to critical feedback
• Familiarity using AI-enabled content development tools and modern creative workflows while maintaining editorial quality, scientific accuracy, and brand standards.

Benefits

• We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects.
• We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!