Freelance Editorial Supervisor, Market Access

Lockwood; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Lockwood is seeking a Freelance Editorial Supervisor / Senior Editor to manage editorial services for aligned accounts in conjunction with Traffic Management. The role emphasizes accuracy, scientific value, and adherence to style guidelines.

The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of medical editing experience and a background in Market Access agency work, with strong collaboration across editorial and scientific teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of medical editing experience.
• Experience with Market Access agency or comparable work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Market Access teams to address evolving needs; learn priorities and objectives of aligned teams and how they fit within the business unit.
• Maintains knowledge of relevant style guidelines for aligned accounts, including client-specific, AMA, and Chicago styles.
• Maintains and updates Editorial SOP, list of frequently encountered editorial questions/issues, and list of team-specific requests and preferences.
• Addresses CE-related questions from scientific directors and other team members.
• Reviews content not only for objective grammatical and stylistic standards but with a critical eye for elements of “sense” or “story,” when requested.
• Leads colleagues toward manageable solutions.
• Demonstrates flexibility, innovation, and independent judgment.
• Liaises with key stakeholders to broaden the capabilities of the Editorial department and its outputs.
• Provides timely communication between relevant departments, including Accounts, Scientific, and third-party contributors

Skills

Medical editing

Market access experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

About Lockwood

Lockwood collaborates with clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries to identify effective, holistic, science-based strategies to address their objectives through market access communications. Our clients count on us to challenge their assumptions and help them creatively navigate around obstacles. From strategy through execution, we focus on accuracy, transparency, and scientific value to create programs that are evidence-based, clinically relevant, and contribute to the development of our clients’ brands. Over a third of our staff hold advanced scientific, pharmacy, or medical degrees, and most work from where they live. Because our flexible structure provides better work-life balance, we attract the best talent, facilitate their best work, and as a result, are more responsive to our clients, wherever and whenever they do business.

Summary

The role of the Freelance Editorial Supervisor / Senior Editor is to manage the editorial services for aligned accounts in conjunction with Traffic Management.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Market Access teams to address their evolving needs; learn priorities and objectives of aligned teams and how they fit within the business unit
• Maintains a knowledge of relevant style guidelines for aligned accounts, including client-specific, AMA, and Chicago styles
• Maintains and updates Editorial SOP, list of frequently encountered editorial questions/issues, and list of team-specific requests and preferences
• Addresses CE-related questions from scientific directors and other team members
• Reviews content not only for objective grammatical and stylistic standards but with a critical eye for elements of “sense” or “story,” when requested
• Leads colleagues toward manageable solutions
• Demonstrates flexibility, innovation, and independent judgment
• Liaises with key stakeholders to broaden the capabilities of the Editorial department and its outputs
• Provides timely communication between relevant departments, including Accounts, Scientific, and third-party contributors

Education

A Bachelor’s degree is required

Professional Skills and Requirements:

• At least 5 years of medical editing experience
• Market Access agency or comparable experience required