Editor

Avalere Health Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Avalere Health is seeking an experienced editorial-focused professional to own and maintain the brand style guide and oversee editorial quality in a fast-paced agency environment. You will review materials for accuracy, credibility, and regulatory compliance, and mentor teammates to ensure consistent brand standards.

The role emphasizes strong writing, editing rigor, and the ability to train colleagues while adhering to SOPs and client goals, across multiple accounts and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Excellent command of the English language with strong AMA style knowledge.
• Ability to locate errors with rigorous attention to detail and factual accuracy.
• Experience reviewing brand materials for correctness, credibility, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to train colleagues and guide editorial teams.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains brand style guide and socializes it to the team.
• Reviews brand materials for correctness, factuality, sense, credibility and style.
• Communicates professionally with colleagues and client personnel; provides actionable feedback.
• Onboards new team members and ensures adherence to SOPs and brand practices.
• Guides teammates on editorial matters and training in brand style and decorum.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Executive Functioning

Diligence, Dependability

Time Management

Client Focus

Functional/Technical Skills

Ethics/Integrity

Tools

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Workfront

Job description

About Avalere Health

United by one profound purpose: to reach EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE. At Avalere Health, we ensure every patient is identified, treated, supported, and cared for. Equally. Our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams come together – powerfully and intentionally – to forge unconventional connections, building a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind.

Achieving our mission starts with providing enriching, purpose-driven careers for our team that empower them to make a tangible impact on patient lives. We are committed to creating a culture where our employees are empowered to bring their whole selves to work and tap into the power of diverse backgrounds and skillsets to play a part in making a difference for every patient, everywhere.

Our flexible approach to working allows our global teams to decide where they want to work, whether in-office or at home based on team and client need. Major city hubs in London, Manchester, Washington, D.C., and New York, and smaller offices globally, serve as collaboration hubs allowing our teams to come together when it matters. Homeworkers are equally supported, with dedicated social opportunities and resources.

Our inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do. We proudly support our employees in bringing their whole selves to work with our six Employee Network Groups – Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity. These groups provide opportunities to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and to connect, learn, and socialise through regular meetings and programs of activity.We are an accredited Fertility Friendly employer with our Fertility Policy, enhanced parental leave, and culture of flexibility ensuring every employee feels supported across their family planning journey and can work in a way that suits their family’s needs.

We are deeply invested in supporting professional growth for our employees through day-to-day career experiences, access to thousands of on-demand training sessions, regular career conversations, and the opportunity for global, cross-capability career moves.

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you’d like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.

The Editor is responsible for maintaining quality and brand editorial style on assigned work in a fast-paced agency environment with multiple competing deadlines. Creates, maintains, and socializes brand stylebooks; editorially reviews and fact-checks; and liaises with team members to achieve project goals. Guides teammates on editorial matters, including training to brand style and advising on rhetorical decorum and credibility. Ensures projects are free of copy-based and data-visualization errors. Is an advanced user of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Workfront Proof. Assists on editorial projects outside of assigned accounts as needed. Understands industry and agency culture and protects projects from commonplace threats to quality. Exemplifies excellence by adhering to best practices and standard operating procedures (SOPs), increasing personal expertise independently, and undergoing internal training. Completes assignments by deadline; communicates with team members proactively, effectively, and collegially. Records time accurately and adheres to company policies.

What You’ll Do:

Style Guide Owner

Develops and maintains brand style guide, socializing it to the rest of the team.

• Creates brand style guide using established practices
• Updates on an ongoing basis per client and regulatory feedback on projects
• Socializes style guide and solicits feedback from teammates
• Ensures deliverables adhere to style guide

Editorial Authority

Reviews brand materials and other projects for correctness, factuality, sense, credibility, decorum, compliance, and style.

• Checks files to ensure correctness, factuality, sense, credibility, decorum, compliance, and adherence to the brand style guide
• Demonstrates a mastery of different types of reviews (eg, cold reads, word-for-words, check changes, fact checks) and understands when to employ various levels of editorial rigor
• Displays an understanding of promotional regulations, audience, purpose, and client goals and objectives
• Adheres to best practices and standard operating procedures
• Identifies efficiencies when editing and training colleagues
• Advises brand team, copywriters, and other colleagues on editorial topics
• Encourages colleagues to follow established SOPs, while remaining flexible to client and/or business needs
• Onboards new team members to the brand and USM practices and advocates adherence to it
• Understands spheres of authority and agency-of-record (AOR) team RACI

Communication

Writes and speaks comprehensibly with colleagues and select client personnel.

• Maintains a professional tone and helpful demeanor in internal—and if necessary, external—interactions
• Provides clear, actionable feedback during editorial reviews
• Deals with challenges proactively and positively; values suggestions and constructive feedback
• Uses official communication channels as intended: Outlook, Teams, Egnyte, Workfront, etc.

About You:

Attention to Detail

Can locate and identify errors in documents and files at a rigorous level; excellent eye for consistency; deep knowledge of the English language; is fluent in AMA style, with the ability to find answers to stylistic questions; is adept at secondary research; is comfortable working at the computer on complicated documents for long periods while maintaining focus and rigor

Executive Functioning

Is an integral and proactive member of the team; can be counted on to think through project complications collegially and own editorial workstreams in an integrated manner; works with project managers when deadlines conflict to achieve efficiency and proper resourcing; can handle multiple deadlines while maintaining focus to execute individual projects with excellence

Diligence, Dependability, and Honesty

Adheres to processes necessary to achieve excellence; knows how to push back when quality is being threatened; is not afraid to say “no” when absolutely necessary; understands how errors are introduced and has a strong distaste for scenarios that make quality harder to achieve; measures performance against perfection, choosing expediency only when necessary; evaluates materials honestly and constructively; cares about team and business success and has a desire to help; accepts responsibility for mistakes and works to rectify them

Time Management

Uses time effectively and efficiently; concentrates efforts on top priorities and seeks assistance when necessary; communicates with colleagues and solves problems proactively while avoiding unnecessary delays; accurately estimates length and difficulty of tasks; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks, actively and routinely evaluating upcoming work; offers to help on other projects when idle

CORE COMPETENCIES FOR ALL AVALERE HEALTH POSITIONS

Client Focus

Is dedicated to meeting and exceeding the expectations and requirements of clients; gets first-hand client information and uses it for improvements in services; acts with clients in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients and gains their trust and respect

Functional/Technical Skills

Has the functional and technical knowledge, skills, and creativity to do the job at an extremely high level of accomplishment

Ethics/Values/Integrity/Trust

Adheres to an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; acts in a direct and truthful way; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain

INTERACTIONS (EXTERNAL)

INTERACTIONS (INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS)

• Client (rare)
• Copy
• Art
• Project Management
• Client Service/Account
• Shared