Midweight Creative Copywriter

Havas Life London; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and wellness agency in the UK is looking for a Junior/Midweight Copywriter. The successful candidate will craft engaging and effective copy for various media while collaborating with creative teams. This role requires previous experience in healthcare or medcomms, along with strong conceptual communication skills. The agency values creativity, collaboration, and a proactive mindset, aiming to inspire junior creatives in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Junior / Midweight copywriting role within a healthcare or medcomms agency.
• Ability to communicate ideas at a conceptual level.

Responsibilities

• Produce high quality and versatile creative copywriting.
• Contribute to generation of creative briefs.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Develop junior team members with helpful feedback.
• Attend meetings in the UK or elsewhere when needed.

Skills

Creative copywriting

Conceptual communication

Collaboration

Job description

Havas Life London is not just evolving; we’re reimagining what a health and wellness agency can be. We’re building a destination for the brightest minds, the boldest ideas, and the kind of creativity that reshapes industries.

We’re a collective of curious thinkers, courageous makers, and kind collaborators. The culture we’re building is fast, fearless, and future-facing - driven by a belief that creativity is the most powerful force for growth.

We are vibrant collaborators, smart decision-makers, and believers in a win-or-learn mindset. Our emerging creative culture is built on curiosity, courage, and kindness. We expect more from ourselves and those who join our high-performance team.

As part of the Havas Health network, we’re pushing boundaries, embracing AI and emerging tech, and reimagining how strategic creativity can unlock new value for clients across the globe. We’re here to make London the beating heart of global health communications. Be the go-to creative strategic partner for our network colleagues and client partners alike.

The role

Craft creatively engaging, well-written copy that meets the brief, is appropriate for the target audience, and is delivered in a timely manner. Creative copywriters are expected to have at least a sound understanding of science and pharmaceutical marketing restrictions, but their focus will be on producing creative, effective, and memorable promotional concepts, copy, and innovative ideas to help solve the client’s commercial problems across a range of needs and media.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce high quality and versatile creative copywriting that is on brief and relevant to the audience and platform
• Contribute to the process of coming up exciting, original, intelligent, and creative ideas
• Be involved in generation of creative briefs – be prepared to challenge and contribute
• Craft content for concepts, animations, websites, social media, naming projects, gamification, event theming, etc, with limited supervision from senior writers
• Improve strategic understanding, and work closely and collaboratively with strategists, scientific writers, accounts and other creatives to deliver rounded work
• Be confident ‘selling in’ work internally, talking colleagues through the rationale behind the writing / creative approach
• Address internal and external comments on your work intelligently and question any that seem inappropriate, inaccurate or unclear to senior members of the team (accounts / writing)
• Be an active member of cross-functional teams. Proactively driving work and seeking opportunities. Managing and challenging timelines to help us deliver excellent work in a timely manner.
• Have an entrepreneurial, proactive and collaborative mindset.
• Help to inspire, motivate and develop more junior members of the creative team. Develop briefing and reviewing skills to a high standard and provide helpful feedback for juniors
• Foster close relationships with the creative team, exchanging ideas and developing concepts where art and copy work in synergy
• Possess a flexible and innovative mindset, suggesting new approaches and technologies to solve problems
• Contribute to presentations and help sell in creative work to clients when required
• Work collaboratively with account team members to ensure that all account objectives are met
• Start to build relationships with clients and get to know external suppliers
• Attend meetings in the UK or elsewhere, providing on-site support as required

You will bring

• Experience as a Junior / Midweight copywriting role within a healthcare / medcomms agency
• Able to communicate ideas at a conceptual level