Principal Medical Copywriter Job In Guildford

Havas Life Medicom – reimagining brand, corporate and cause communications

Havas Life Medicom is a fully integrated agency that is 100% dedicated to creating standout communications in healthcare. We believe in the power of human purpose to help brands and organisations positively impact people’s lives.

Our success starts by strategically aligning promotion and PR across the product lifecycle, using creativity and innovation to craft persuasive stories. Our experts in strategic consultancy, cause and corporate campaigning, work side-by-side with our clients. Our goal is to put their story at the forefront of tomorrow’s healthcare agenda and help people around the world be at the centre of their own healthcare conversations.

In our quest to push boundaries, we’re always looking for brilliant people to join us and we are now recruiting for a Principal Medical Copywriter.

The role

You will take ownership of large complex projects across a wide range of 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