Bilingual Copywriter l Health Industry

Sierra Talent Group; Medellín; On-site; COP 30,000,000 - 60,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sierra Talent Group seeks a detail-oriented bilingual copywriter to support editorial and quality-control across pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing accounts. This role sits close to the medical/legal/regulatory (MLR) review process, demanding precise, deadline-driven output.

You will annotate materials, build reference packs, and ensure consistency of messaging across brands, collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet submission standards.

Qualifications

• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading with high accuracy.
• Experience with structured annotation and reference matching workflows.
• Ability to follow detailed style guides (AMA, brand) consistently.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple brands.
• Clear professional English for routing comments to US teams.

Responsibilities

• Annotate promotional and medical materials for MLR submission.
• Build reference citation lists and highlighted reference packs.
• Prepare final job packages for medical/legal/regulatory review.
• Route and track review comments across stakeholders with audit trail.
• Maintain consistency of approved claims and messaging across all jobs for a brand.
• Cross-check ISI/fair balance language against approved sources.
• Collaborate with creative, account, and production teams to keep multiple jobs on schedule.

Skills

Writing & editing

Attention to detail

Annotation workflows

AMA style guides

Organization

English fluency

Tools

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Asset management systems

Job description

We are seeking a detail-oriented Bilingual copywriter to support editorial and quality-control workstreams across our pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing accounts. This role sits close to the medical/legal/regulatory (MLR) review process the work is precise, high-volume, and deadline-driven. Candidates who thrive on accuracy, cross-referencing, and consistency will do well here.

Key Responsibilities

• Annotate promotional and medical materials (slide decks, emails, leave-behinds, value proposition decks, messaging decks, disease-state deck, pre-approval information exchange decks) for MLR submission, per agency and brand style guides
• Build reference citation lists and fully highlighted reference packs, ensuring every annotated claim in the piece is traceable to and matches its supporting source document
• Prep final job packages for medical/legal/regulatory review, ensuring formatting, citation style (AMA Manual of Style), and file organization meet submission standards
• Route and track review comments/changes across multiple stakeholders (medical, legal, regulatory, brand), and maintain a clear audit trail of what changed and why
• Maintain consistency of approved claims, terminology, and messaging across all jobs for a given brand, flagging discrepancies before they reach MLR
• Cross-check word-for-word accuracy of Important Safety Information (ISI)/fair balance language against approved source documents
• Collaborate with creative, account, and production teams to keep multiple concurrent jobs on schedule

Required Qualifications

• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
• Comfort working with structured annotation and reference-matching workflows (training provided, but prior exposure is a plus).
• Ability to follow detailed style guides (agency, brand, and AMA Manual of Style) with high consistency.
• Strong organizational skills able to manage several jobs/brands at once without losing track of version or status
• Clear, professional written English communication for routing comments and status updates to US-based teams.
• Reliable availability that overlaps with US Eastern Time business hours for review handoffs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong English language proficiency
• Prior experience in healthcare/pharmaceutical marketing, medical communications, or regulated-industry copywriting/editing (eg, MLR, USRC, or similar review environments)
• Familiarity with AMA citation style and pharmaceutical fair-balance/ISI conventions
• Experience annotating PDFs (eg, Adobe Acrobat, in PowerPoint speaker notes)
• Experience with payer, HCP, or patient-facing pharmaceutical content.

Tools

• Adobe Acrobat (PDF annotation/markup)
• Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Basic familiarity with shared drives/asset management systems (training provided)