Associate Scientific Director

Langland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Paid volunteering and charity days

Financial and lifestyle coaching

Family policies including paid parental leave

Local discounts

Job summary

A leading health communications agency in Greater London is seeking an Associate Director to lead a writing team focused on scientific content and medical communications. The role involves client interaction and strategy development, requiring significant experience in medical writing and leadership. Excellent benefits are offered including flexible working arrangements. Candidates should possess strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams, as well as maintain high editorial standards.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a medical communications agency.
• Expertise in medical writing in medical affairs and education.
• Ability to motivate and inspire teams.
• Strong relationships with clients and experts.

Responsibilities

• Lead a medical writing team and ensure accountability for content delivery.
• Support resource alignment and recruitment for team performance.
• Maintain visibility as a content and scientific expert across multiple areas.
• Develop scientific strategies in collaboration with teams.

Skills

Leadership

Medical writing

Content development

Client relationship management

Job description

Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Policy, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients.

Health brings us together. In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity. When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together.

Having expert thinking is only part of our story. To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts: science, strategy and creativity.

Overview

In this Associate Director-level role, you will lead a high-performing writing team, being accountable for scientific knowledge and content development on one large account and/or several smaller accounts for the business, being seen as a leader of scientific knowledge, content creation, and medical communications activities, across the MSE Team at Langland.

Responsibilities

• Providing effective leadership for a medical writing team
• Being seen by the client/experts as a lead member of the team
• Supporting Client Services with resource alignment and recruitment to optimise team performance
• Advocate for the medical writing team both internally and externally
• Taking overall responsibility for a writing team’s content delivery for designated accounts
• Leading scientific pitch research and presentation for MSE opportunities
• Providing active counsel and recommendations to clients, partnering with client teams to develop editorial and content plans and optimise the impact of the writing team
• Maintaining high-profile visibility within the agency as a content and scientific expert across multiple therapy areas
• Proactively identifying opportunities and threats to the team, and evolving business needs
• Supporting the development of therapy area and/or brand scientific strategy (in collaboration with the Scientific Strategy Team where appropriate)

Qualifications

• Considerable experience within a medical communications agency
• Considerable experience in medical writing within medical affairs and medical education
• Overarching scientific and content leadership for accounts
• Responsibility for maintaining high editorial and scientific standards across a team
• Development of writing talent through direct line management and training
• An ability to motivate and inspire people, and elevate standards of content curation
• Strong internal, client and expert relationships

Please note: Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

Additional Information

Langland has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• “YOU” DAYS - flexibility to take a day off for your well‑being and self‑care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief‑based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

OUR DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

At Publicis Groupe UK, we’re committed to creating a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive. This begins with striving to ensure our recruitment process is welcoming and allows equal access to opportunity for people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, neurodiversity, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Here are some of the ways we help promote diversity at Publicis Health.

Recruitment

• Diversity & Inclusion management
• Career and school programmes to build industry access for people from mixed socio‑economic backgrounds

Culture

• Support communities for women, LGBTQ+, BAME, Disabled employees and their allies
• A wellbeing programme which includes free HeadSpace membership.

Future

• CSR is central to our ethos and work moving forwards

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).