Medical Writer - London

Prime; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare communications company in the UK is seeking a Medical Writer to join their team. The ideal candidate will hold a life sciences degree and possess strong communication skills. This position involves producing high-quality medical content, collaborating with medical experts, and ensuring detail-oriented deliverables. The company offers various benefits, including 33 days of annual leave and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Birthday day off

5% pension contribution

Private medical health insurance

Flexible start and finish times

Qualifications

• Approximately one year’s medical communication agency experience in a writing role.
• Ability to adapt content and style according to client objectives.
• Need to keep up-to-date with therapeutic areas and publication practices.

Responsibilities

• Produce content for medical communications projects.
• Liaise with medical experts.
• Ensure grammatical and scientific accuracy in content.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Excellent attention to detail

Good knowledge of pharmaceutical industry

Organizational skills

Education

Life sciences degree

Science Masters or PhD

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe

Excel

Job description

Accelerating Life-Changing Solutions to Global Healthcare Challenges is the vision that unites us through a shared sense of purpose, whatever the role.

It speaks to the significant challenges that exist within global healthcare, and how we, as one team, can help to deliver better solutions and outcomes for our partners and for patients everywhere, sooner. Your job description outlines the important role and responsibilities that you own in achieving this vision.

Importantly too is how we go about living our vision. This is defined by the Prime mission:

Through a pioneering fusion of the finest expertise in science, strategy, evidence, technology and creativity we deliver the world-class outcomes that our global partners trust to achieve their goals.

It speaks to collaboration and to everyone’s responsibility to bring together the diverse expertise that exist across our team to deliver world-class outcomes.

On this foundation, we have defined four core values, these represent the shared principles that guide our behaviours every day, whatever your role:

Be Brave, Be Human, Be Passionate, Be Exceptional.

At Prime these values are integral to who we are. They are there to guide you in your role and support you on your personal journey to success. They shape our culture and support us in achieving our vision together, as one global team.

The role

As a Medical Writer you are valued for your scientific input. You will be involved in a wide range of medical communications projects and you will have a real passion for producing content to the highest possible standards of grammatical and scientific accuracy. The right candidate will enjoy adapting content and style according to client objectives for a variety of different target audiences and subject areas. You will liaise with a range of medical experts and you will keep up-to-date with therapeutic areas, as well as good publication practices and other industry guidelines and processes

• A life sciences degree, ideally combined with a science Masters or PhD
• Approximately one year’s medical communication agency experience in a writing role
• Strong communication skills
• Good knowledge of pharmaceutical industry and processes
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills
• Good working knowledge of standard computer software e.g. Microsoft Office, Adobe, Excel

• 33 days annual leave
• Birthday day off
• 5% pension contribution
• Private medical health insurance
• WORKsmart - allows employees to have flexibility around their start and finish time
• Hybrid working