Senior Medical Writer

Omnicom Health Medical Communications; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 93 000 - 122 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Omnicom Health Medical Communications invites applications for a Medical Writer role in New York. The candidate will lead medical content across therapy areas, evaluate literature, and ensure clear, accurate, and strategically aligned communications for multiple projects.

Responsibilities include briefing teams, reviewing freelancer work, and maintaining high writing standards while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Lead and coordinate medical content to produce high-quality deliverables across therapy areas.
• Objectively evaluate scientific literature/data and translate into communications deliverables.
• Strive for writing excellence: clear, accurate, scientifically sound, and grammatically correct materials.
• Develop briefs to inform project plans and address knowledge gaps.

Responsabilités

• Lead the delivery of medical content across therapy areas within budget and schedule, with minimal input from medical team leads.
• Review materials for scientific accuracy, quality, style, and audience suitability.
• Ensure materials conform to style guides and industry standards; provide guidance to address oversights.
• Brief other team members and provide direction and support as needed.
• Contribute ideas to add value on live projects and business development.
• Manage workload and prioritize to meet deadlines in fast-paced, parallel projects.

Description du poste

Job Description

Medical Writing, Briefing, and Reviewing

Agency

Omnicom Health Medical Communications

Job Function

Medical Scientific Services

Job Subfunction

Medical Writing

Job Description

Medical Writing, Briefing, and Reviewing

• Lead and coordinate medical content to produce a range of high-quality deliverables across therapy areas, within budget and schedule, with minimal input from medical team leads.
• Objectively evaluate scientific literature/data and translate into communications deliverables; demonstrate scientific insight and critical thinking.
• Strive to achieve writing excellence; consistently produce clear, accurate, scientifically sound, strategically aligned, grammatically correct, and creative materials appropriate to the project brief, meet client needs, and reflect the direction of external experts.
• Act as a source of expertise regarding client products, therapy areas, data set and processes; project-specific strategy; and industry standards, supporting others as needed; keep on top of updates to medical literature and the competitive landscape within relevant therapy areas and share knowledge.
• Develop and critically appraise briefs to inform project plans; be alert to potential internal or external pitfalls or knowledge gaps and take action to address these.
• Effectively brief other account team members and Studio as appropriate and provide further direction and support as needed.
• Competently review materials from other Writers (including freelancers) for scientific accuracy, written quality, style, suitability for the audience, and strategic alignment, ensuring clear, complete, and valid comments.
• When writing or reviewing, ensure all materials conform to relevant style guides/guidelines and industry standards; provide advice and guidance to address oversights.
• Contribute creative ideas, concepts, or suggestions to provide added value across live projects and business development activities.
• Manage workload effectively, including during delivery peaks, and prioritize/reprioritize effectively to meet deadlines for fast-paced and multiple parallel projects.

Team Working

• Lead the delivery of medical content and work collaboratively with account team members to meet overall account objectives.
• Actively participate in account team meetings; lead project team meetings in line with specific delivery responsibilities.
• Coach and mentor less experienced Medical Writers and support their ongoing development.

Client Service

• Build positive relationships with clients and external experts by providing a knowledgeable point of contact; contribute to discussions to identify issues and recommend solutions.
• Confidently lead/facilitate internal, client, and external expert calls/virtual meetings and attend on-site meetings.

Commercial / Financial

• Demonstrate mindfulness of project budgets and scopes of work; work with Client Services team members to identify issues and support good recoverability.
• Input into the development of scopes of work/cost estimates.
• Complete timesheets on time and meet productivity targets.

Business Development

• Identify opportunities for organic growth on accounts and communicate to the senior account teams.
• Support the development of discrete medical content for proposals and pitch presentations.

$93,000 - $122,000

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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$93,000 - $122,000