Medical Writer - London

Prime; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare solutions company based in the City of London is seeking a Medical Writer to produce high-quality medical communications. The ideal candidate will have a life sciences degree and approximately one year of experience in a medical communication agency. Responsibilities include ensuring grammatical and scientific accuracy, adapting content for various audiences, and collaborating with medical experts. This role offers 33 days of annual leave, a flexible working environment, and private medical health insurance.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Birthday day off

5% pension contribution

Private medical health insurance

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Approximately one year’s medical communication agency experience in a writing role.
• Good knowledge of pharmaceutical industry and processes.
• Ability to liaise with medical experts.

Responsibilities

• Produce content to the highest possible standards of grammatical and scientific accuracy.
• Adapt content for various target audiences and subject areas.
• Keep up-to-date with therapeutic areas and good publication practices.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Adaptability in content style

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