Scientific Project Lead - Medical Communications

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally. Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind. We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, Sense Making. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as Sense Makers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits

Location: UK, hybrid or remote

About the role

You will lead the medical writing team for accounts that require multiple writers to meet the content demands of customized medical communications initiatives, and/or lead multiple accounts. You will be responsible for assigned-client service and providing high-quality editorial oversight for all content from planning through to review and completion.

What you will do:

• Deliver high-quality material with a mix of hands-on delivery of specific projects and reviewing/oversight role across other projects and is capable of working across a variety of project types including publications and medical affairs.
• Guide the scientific team on day to day tasks and is responsible for the accurate, high-quality, and timely execution of all scientific aspects of projects within a workstream.
• Provide scientific oversight for assigned large/complex projects or a workstream, briefing, reviewing, and providing guidance and direction to less experienced writers in account team.
• Be the client’s day to day scientific contact, ensuring that all project-related discussions related to scientific matters are communicated effectively to the team and more widely to other AZ scientific indication leads as appropriate.
• Foster excellent client relationships through trusted delivery of projects.
• Collaborate with other functions including project management, client services and editorial within the workstream to ensure the overall well-being and efficiency of the scientific team, helping team members prioritize workload and tasks to deliver successfully.

About You

• Bachelor's Degree in the Life Sciences; PharmD or PhD highly preferred.
• Ideally 4+ years of medical writing experience, either achieved in an agency environment or in-house.
• Strong background in scientific content development across various project types.
• Proven ability to provide leadership and mentoring to junior writers.
• Experience managing client relationships and serving as a key point of contact.
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory guidelines for medical communications.

What we can offer:

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges. At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope. We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential.

As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide. We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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