Scientific Editor and Proofreader

Prescient; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Are you passionate about precision, detail, and delivering high-quality insights? Do you have an eye for consistency and the ability to elevate content to the highest standards? Join Prescient’s Quality Control (QC) Team in London and become a key player in ensuring excellence across our client-facing consultancy work.

At Prescient, we help leading biopharmaceutical companies make strategic, high-impact decisions by delivering data-driven insights. As a Scientific Editor and Proofreader, you will be instrumental in refining client deliverables, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and compliance. Your work will directly influence how breakthrough medicines are developed, launched, and marketed globally.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a strong background in editing, proofreading, or quality control, looking to make a meaningful impact in the life sciences sector.

About the Opportunity

As a Scientific Editor and Proof Reader, you will collaborate closely with consultants and researchers, refining high-quality insights in various formats, including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and our proprietary InflexionRx platform. You will provide detailed feedback, ensure adherence to compliance guidelines, and help shape compelling, client-ready deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Content Quality & Editing – Edit commercial and technical content, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency across deliverables. Identify and address inconsistencies, errors, or potential compliance concerns.
• Storytelling & Clarity – Support authors in structuring content to create compelling narratives with clear implications for the reader.
• Formatting & Branding – Format documents in line with Prescient’s corporate guidelines or adapt to client-specific styles.
• Feedback & Guidance – Provide constructive, detailed feedback to authors to help refine their work and improve future outputs.
• Project Support – Assist in managing project documentation, developing training materials, and contributing to QC process improvements.

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a detail-oriented, organized, and proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in delivering excellence.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field
• Minimum 2 years of experience in editing, proofreading, quality control, or a related role
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to improve content quality
• Highly organized with excellent time management skills
• Knowledge of the life sciences or consulting industry
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, deadline-driven environment
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage routine interactions and communications with stakeholders

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in a scientific, medical, or technical editing environment
• Familiarity with business systems and workflow applications
• Translation experience or proficiency in a foreign language

Prescient is a pharma services firm specialising in dynamic decision support and product and portfolio strategy. We partner with our clients to turn science into value by helping them understand the potential of their molecules, shaping their strategic plans and allowing their decision-making to be the biggest differentiating factor in the success of their products. When companies partner with Prescient, the molecules in their hands have a greater potential for success than the same science in the hands of their competitors.

Founded in 2007, Prescient is a global firm with a footprint in ten cities across three continents. Our team of nearly 475 experts partners with 27 of the top 30 biopharmaceutical companies, the fastest-growing mid-caps and cutting-edge emerging biotech’s, including some of the biggest and most innovative brands. More than 70% of our employees hold advanced life sciences degrees, and our teams deliver an impressive depth of therapeutic, clinical and commercial expertise.

We are committed to doing our part in the broader communities in which we work and live. As such, all employees will play their part in supporting our broader business mission, vision, purpose and the Prescient brand as well as our commitment toward optimizing the social and environmental elements of our communities. We will support these efforts by ensuring regular communications, periodic trainings, volunteering and other relevant activities. People managers will play a particularly active role in this by assuming responsibilities for certain social and environmental activities that we support as an overall organization.

We are an equal opportunity employer and fully comply with applicable legislation in all the geographies in which we operate. Applicants are considered for positions without regard to veteran status, uniformed service member status, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other category protected by applicable national, federal, state or local laws.