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Job Title: Principal Medical Writer, Medical Communications (Previously inScience Communications)

Locations: London, Manchester, Chester (Hybrid)

Organisation: Springer Health+

Full time, 12 month FTC (Maternity Cover)

About Springer Nature Group

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.

About Springer Health+ (Previously Springer Healthcare)

Springer Health+ is a leading global medical communications and education provider. Working in partnership with pharmaceutical companies and key opinion leaders. At Springer Health+, we see beyond the data – we see the people behind every breakthrough. We do more than help experts across the medical community keep up with science; we help them move it forward, making healthcare smarter and more human.

About the role

As a Principal Medical Writer, reporting to a Senior Scientific Team Leader or above, you will provide expert medical writing and reviewing of high-quality scientific content in medical communications that satisfy client needs in terms of quality, commercial focus, timing and cost.

You will be central to developing and maintaining strong client relationships, principally by demonstrating therapy area and technical expertise, and ensuring that deliverables are of the highest quality. You will be required to drive writing projects forwards from beginning to completion, provide strategic and tactical advice to clients as needed, demonstrate financial acumen with respect to driving revenue.

You will also contribute to business development initiatives for new business development and organic growth of existing accounts.

To find out more about us visit our website athttps://springerhealthplus.com/

Responsibilities

Project delivery

• Manage all aspects of tactical delivery of scientific content for a range of medical communications that meet client needs, internal quality standards and timelines:

  • Demonstrate a high level of expertise in ≥2 therapy areas

  • Lead content delivery on projects for one or more accounts and provide a point of contact on matters of scientific content for the client and external experts

  • Provide full briefs to delegate editorial projects to colleagues Provide editorial quotes for costing purposes

  • Advise other senior scientific services team members about editorial resource requirements

• Review scientific content for a range of medical communications according to client needs, internal quality standards and agreed specifications, budgets and timeframes:

  • Monitor quality, style and accuracy and provide timely, consistent and constructive feedback when reviewing

  • Ensure that projects reflect a thorough understanding of clients’ medical/marketing objectives and that scientific messages are supported appropriately

  • Liaise with clients and Client Services Team to agree specifications and check that client expectations are being met

Business planning/commercial

• Apply knowledge of the therapeutic use and strategic marketing of pharmaceuticals to account plans, strategic publication plans and strategic communication programmes

• Maintain broad awareness of developments in relevant therapeutic areas and discipline, editorial issues and technological developments within publishing and communications, and the wider company’s product portfolio

• Provide scientific advice to relevant account teams on:

• Strategy and tactics

• New opportunities

• New therapy area developments

• Provide strategic and tactical advice to clients on medical communications deliverables and market developments

• Provide editorial advice to the management team (e.g. quality standards, training needs and resourcing)

• Provide support to the Business Development team on:

• Recommendations for organic growth within existing accounts

• Identification of new business opportunities

• Proposal development

• Pitch development and attendance

Project team operations

• Work closely with senior editorial and client service colleagues to ensure the whole account team is harmonious, functioning optimally and delivering to client needs with respect to quality, commercial focus, timing and cost

• Support team working principles and collaboration within the account team(s) and wider medical communications group, as well as other departments and business units within the company

Financial

• Monitor own adherence to budget and utilisation rate

• Work with client service colleagues to ensure that the team is also adhering to budget/utilisation.

• Regularly check-in with client services regarding the financial health of the account, including assessing project ‘burn rates’ and investigating reasoning for any overspend

• Record and monitor actual time spent on a project against budgeted time, and complete timesheets in an accurate and timely manner

• Contribute to revenue targets by ensuring that projects are progressed according to schedules

Experience, skills and qualifications

Education:

Essential

• Life Science degree or equivalent

Desirable

• Higher degree (MSc or PhD)

Experience:

Skills

Essential

• Proven medical writing skills and able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Proven experience and confident in interacting with clients and medical experts

• A proactive and flexible team player with a collaborative approach

• Proven organisation/time management and leadership skills, with the ability to be proactive and use your initiative to get results

• Highly computer literate with good working knowledge of common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly

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