Senior Medical Writer

AN1 IPG Health Medical Comm Inc; United States; On-site; USD 93,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Health Medical Communications is seeking a Medical Writer in the United States to lead and coordinate medical content across therapy areas, ensuring scientific accuracy, adherence to guidelines, and timely delivery.

The role involves evaluating literature, supporting client needs, mentoring junior writers, and contributing to business development; an in-office commitment of three days per week is expected.

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 audience-appropriate materials.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of medical content and coordinate with account teams to meet objectives.
• Coach and mentor less experienced Medical Writers and support their development.
• Review materials for scientific accuracy and adherence to guidelines and industry standards.
• Contribute creative ideas to provide added value on live projects and business development activities.

Job description

Agency: Omnicom Health Medical Communications

Job Function: Medical Scientific Services

Job Subfunction: Medical Writing

Job Description:

• 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 area(s) 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.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.

We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice. Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

For US Job Seekers: It is the policy of Omnicom and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.

At Omnicom Group, careers are designed for growth. We’ve purposefully crafted a transformative talent experience built with accountability in action — focused on community, impact, and opportunity.