Scientific Admin Executive

Media Contacts; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Media Contacts is seeking a dynamic coordinator to support the Scientific Lead across events and publishing. You will help plan webinars and events, provide administrative support, and coordinate with KOLs and HCPs to ensure smooth operations. There is also scope to participate in video outputs and scientific publishing initiatives.

The role offers progression as the team grows within a small, entrepreneurial company, with opportunities to move towards events or publishing work.

Qualifications

• Two years of relevant experience (e.g. within a medcomms agency).
• A life science degree is required.
• Proactive, organised approach with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the Scientific Lead with agenda creation for webinars and events.
• Provide administrative support across the events and publishing teams.
• Liaise with KOLs and HCPs via email to ensure smooth coordination.
• Help to facilitate scientific output across the business; involve in video outputs such as tags, titles and copy.

Skills

Written communication

Oral communication

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

UK-based

Education

Life science degree

Job description

This is a brand new, newly created role working across the events and publishing teams to support the Scientific Lead in facilitating scientific output across the business, playing a key part in delivering high-quality webinars, events, and publications.

Day to day, you’ll take on a varied mix of responsibilities, including:

• Supporting the Scientific Lead with agenda creation for webinars and events
• Providing administrative support across the events and publishing teams
• Liaising with KOLs and HCPs via email, ensuring everything aligns and runs smoothly
• Helping to facilitate scientific output across the business

On the publishing side, you’ll also get involved in video outputs – writing tags, titles, and descriptive copy. The publishing team travels the world interviewing and publishing conversations with leading doctors, and there’s scope for you to get involved in this work too.

Progression

As a newly created role sitting below the Scientific Lead, your development prospects are excellent. Being a small, established yet still entrepreneurial, company there’s real room to grow – how you progress will depend on how the role develops, whether that’s towards the events team or the publishing side.

You

• Around 2 years of relevant experience (e.g. within a medcomms agency)
• A life science degree
• A proactive, organised approach and strong attention to detail
• Excellent communications skills, written and spoken.
• Based in the UK and willing to travel to London once a month