Copywriting Consultant

SSM Health; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health is seeking a Copywriting Consultant to craft engaging content across digital, print, and marketing channels. You will partner with clinicians and marketers to develop messaging that informs, inspires, and strengthens our brand while ensuring patient-centered language and brand consistency.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, adherence to AP style, and data-informed optimization of campaigns, with a hybrid work arrangement and standard daytime hours in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism, or closely related field.
• Five years' experience.
• Ability to turn complex clinical information into simple, patient-centered language.
• Not an entry-level position.

Responsibilities

• Writes original copy and edit content for a range of marketing and communications materials and a wide range of media including print, broadcast, digital, direct mail, publications, and other features.
• Interprets creative briefs to develop concepts for application with assigned projects.
• Researches and understands project sponsor/clients’ needs and intended audiences, through online searches, reviews of existing research, interviews with subject‑matter experts, and meetings.
• Ensures copy is written in brand voice, adheres to brand standards and with intended audience in mind.
• Revises copy based on project sponsor and client feedback.
• Collaborates with creative team, from concept development to delivery of final product.
• Presents copy concepts and final deliverables to project sponsors and to project sponsors’ client representatives when requested. Participates in project sponsor and client representative pitches.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Copywriting

SEO

Digital marketing

Audience psychology

Brand voice

AP style

Healthcare writing

Data-driven writing

Content strategy

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type

Regular

Job Highlights

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

Scheduling & Logistics

• Work arrangement is hybrid, with three days in office and two days remote per week.
• Standard working hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.
• to 5:00 p.m.
• There is no on-call requirement for this position.

Skills & Matching Criteria

• Ability to turn complex clinical information into simple, patientcentered language.
• Strategic thinking regarding campaign goals.
• Understanding of SEO, digital marketing, and audience psychology.
• Effective collaboration with clinicians and marketers.
• Use of data to improve performance.
• Demonstration of empathy in all communications.
• Maintenance of brand consistency across all channels.
• Proficiency in AP style writing.
• Exceptional writing skills with the ability to provide examples.
• Healthcare literacy.
• SEO/AEO writing styles for websites.
• Ability to adapt writing style to align with the company's verbal expression.
• This is not an entry-level position.

Bring stories to life as a Copywriting Consultant, creating compelling content that informs, inspires, and strengthens our brand. In this creative role, you'll develop impactful messaging across digital, print, and marketing channels while partnering with stakeholders to engage patients, caregivers, and communities.

Job Summary

Responsible for writing engaging and clear copy for a variety of audiences among a range of materials to be communicated across multiple advertising and communication channels. Uses research and knowledge of project’s goals and objectives to ensure copy drives intended results. Collaborates with multiple teams across disciplines and uses latest trends across the different channels/platforms to deliver primary and secondary messages.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Writes original copy and edit content for a range of marketing and communications materials and a wide range of media including print, broadcast, digital, direct mail, publications, and other features.
• Interprets creative briefs to develop concepts for application with assigned projects.
• Researches and understands project sponsor/clients’ needs and intended audiences, through online searches, reviews of existing research, interviews with subject‑matter experts, and meetings.
• Ensures copy is written in brand voice, adheres to brand standards and with intended audience in mind.
• Revises copy based on project sponsor and client feedback.
• Collaborates with creative team, from concept development to delivery of final product.
• Presents copy concepts and final deliverables to project sponsors and to project sponsors’ client representatives when requested. Participates in project sponsor and client representative pitches.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, journalism, or closely related field

Experience

• Five years' experience

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Department

8784060033 Marketing and Communications Staff

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.