Scientific Communications and Engagement Lead

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and evolve Cycle Pharmaceuticals’ medical communications by turning complex science into clear, compliant content for both medical and commercial audiences, while upholding governance and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Governance and quality: maintain accuracy, consistency, and separation between medical and marketing content.
  • Content production: write, review, and translate data into engaging materials for HCPs, patients, and training programs.
  • Cross-functional delivery: partner with Medical, Commercial, and Training teams to align messaging and drive impact across channels.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support with the development, review and optimisation of scientifically accurate fair balanced content across a range of formats and audiences (e.g. HCP, patient or payer educational materials, and support for commercial programs and marketing campaigns).
  • Research, write, edit and proof scientifically accurate content for a range of channels, including HCP (Health Care Professional) education, sales training presentations and digital communications.
  • Translate complex scientific data into clear, compelling and audience-appropriate communications for healthcare professionals and broader audiences where relevant.
  • Support early phase narratives for clinical pipeline, translating complex data into clear, compliant medical narratives and support pre-launch disease state materials.
  • Support marketing as scientific SME and apply rigour to commercial content, ensuring messaging and claims are credible, evidence based and consistent with labelling.
  • Develop and share scientific content, this includes ideation, writing, asset development and delivery through various channels.
  • Extract and support commercial and educational messaging from scientific literature and collaborating with product and product trainers in the appropriate usage and delivery of this content.
  • Define and evolve the scientific communications approach, ensuring alignment with both medical strategy and business priorities, while maintaining the appropriate separation between medical vs promotional activities and content.
  • Act as the subject matter expert for scientific content, setting standards for quality, clarity, scientific integrity and credibility across all communications.
  • Creation and delivery of the medical content required to deliver the medical comms strategy.

Requirements

  • Degree (or equivalent experience) in a life sciences discipline.
  • Strong experience in medical communications, medical writing, or scientific content development (pharma, biotech, or agency).
  • Strong ability and experience to differentiate between promotional and non-promotional content and support the compliant development for both as relevant.
  • Proven ability to translate complex scientific data into clear, engaging, and commercially relevant communications.
  • Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
  • Experience working across both medical and commercial teams, with an understanding of how to balance scientific integrity with business impact.
  • Experience supporting both medical and commercial initiatives (e.g. events, campaigns, publications).
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects end-to-end.
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across cross-functional teams and build strong internal and external relationships.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Preferred

  • Experience as reviewer/content owner in Medical, Legal and Regulatory review processes and compliance to US FDA OPDP regulations and guidelines.
  • Experience in a regulated industry (pharma/biotech/healthcare).
  • Familiarity with content approval processes and compliance requirements (e.g. Veeva PromoMats).
  • Experience working with digital channels and content delivery platforms.

Benefits

  • A collaborative high performing work environment
  • Performance based bonus
  • Hybrid working with flexible start and finish times
  • Opportunity to join a fast growing and ambitious business
  • Company pension scheme
  • 100% employer paid membership for Private Health Insurance
  • Life and Critical Illness Insurance
  • Corporate Gym membership
  • Regular team building events and an agile working environment
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Cycle Pharmaceuticals

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We’re committed to supporting patients and their caregivers in every way we can. They are at the heart of everything we do. We focus on providing treatments and services for patients with neurological, rare metabolic, and rare immunological conditions, most of which are genetic conditions. We also provide a treatment for patients with rare types of leukaemia. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, UK and have staff working across the US, with an office in Detroit, MI.

Founded in 2012
Cambridge, England, GBR
227 employees (17 in marketing)
61% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.9%
Direct
43%
Referral
5.9%
Social
9.9%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~239

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (7% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$25M
Last Raise
$25M
Debt Financing, 6 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2020
    Debt Financing • $25M

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