Senior Medical Writer

We are looking for a team member who has experience of independently developing high-quality medical content in line with client’s strategic plans, with the ability to translate complex clinical data to then deliver compelling content that engages audiences across a range of deliverables.

FULL TIME Location: Our offices are in London, Macclesfield and Manchester. We are open to applications from all over the UK as we have remote and flexible hybrid working policies.

About Lucid Group: We are a global healthcare communications agency with deep therapeutic expertise that traverses the asset lifecycle, delivering transformative outcomes for healthcare brands for over 20 years. Our more than 500 highly trained professionals work with speed and agility to craft and execute breakthrough strategies that maximise performance and unlock a brand’s full potential.

Position Alignment: Lucid Global works with global brand teams at big and mid-tier pharmaceuticals and biotech clients to deliver powerful medical communications solutions across the asset lifecycle.

About The Role: A Senior Medical Writer can create synergy between science, technical information and commercial objectives to deliver compelling programmes. They are able to translate complex clinical data to deliver compelling content that engages the audience across a range of deliverables. Senior Medical Writers at Lucid are responsible for delivering strategic and scientific value to key Lucid Group accounts. They are ambassadors for Lucid Group, helping build the profile and client base of the Company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently developing high-quality medical content in line with our client’s strategic plans.
• Writing content that meets physicians’ needs, anticipates these needs and supports client decision-making.
• Working to highest levels of quality and accuracy on any given project, using multiple writing styles and adapting as needed.
• Creating synergy between science, technical information and commercial objectives to deliver compelling programmes.
• Acquiring outstanding knowledge of client data and understanding both therapy area and commercial objectives.
• Champions excellent standards in everything they are involved in.
• Building relationships with our clients based on outstanding writing and knowledge, being an invaluable scientific and strategic partner for clients.
• Building effective internal partnerships with other capabilities to successfully deliver the project plan on time and to budget (client services, project management, creative, strategy, etc).
• Working with our account management team to highlight new opportunities.
• Ensuring excellence is always delivered for all projects, on time and on budget.
• Contributing to the pitch process and new business proposals.
• Mentoring others and putting processes in place that improve efficiency.
• Supporting with scientific reviews to ensure factual accuracy and adherence to regulatory requirements/code.
• Ensures quality feedback is provided to junior writers to support development.

What We’re Looking For:

Essential Criteria:

• A degree in a scientific, medical or life sciences field.
• Experience managing their own time in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience working collaboratively and efficiently in a cross-capability team.
• Experience writing for a variety of medical/scientific audiences.
• Proven ability to create high-quality medical/scientific content.
• Experience working in a healthcare communications agency environment.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience delivering a wide variety of medical writing outputs.
• Experience creating content for digital/online and omnichannel outputs.
• Competent and confident being a therapy area expert.
• Competent and confident contributing to medical/scientific discussions.
• Proven ability to build professional external partnerships through their work.
• Experience in reviewing colleagues’ medical writing.
• Experience in coaching or mentoring others.

If you look at this list and feel you don’t meet every single requirement, we still want to hear from you! We encourage you to apply, have a discussion with us about the role or others that we may have at Lucid Group either now or in the future, together we can build more inclusive workplaces.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Medical writing
• Mentoring
• Quality control
• Building relationships
• Various exciting projects
• Medical reports

Benefits Of Working With Us:

• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Contributory pension with Lucid contribution up to 5% of basic salary (enrolment after 3 months of employment).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 25 working days holiday, 1 Celebration Day of your choice, 4 Christmas closure days plus 8 Bank Holidays per annum (pro-rata for part-time).
• Flexible holiday buy and sell scheme.
• Family friendly policies.
• Private family health and dental cover, including Employee Assistance Programme and a comprehensive employee rewards scheme.
• 4x basic salary life assurance cover.
• Medicash Healthcare Cash Plan (Level 1 company cover).
• Season Ticket Loans.
• Regular incentive schemes aligned to individual and team performance.

What Does It Mean For Us To Be Lucid?

At Lucid Group, we transform lives. Always. We believe in providing a culture of authenticity, where we can all be ourselves, make real connections, and enjoy the work that we do. Together. We empower our people to embark on a journey of growth and advancement by offering meaningful learning and development opportunities. Central to our ethos is our commitment to cultivating an environment that embraces and respects people of all backgrounds and identities, underpinned by a culture of conscious inclusion and support.

The Lucid values are not just mere words; they are the culmination of our collective efforts, co-created by our people for our people, and serve as our guiding principles, ensuring that every decision we make positively impacts the lives of the clients, patients, healthcare professionals, and colleagues we serve.

Compassionately Human: We think about the human impact of our actions.

Accountable Allies: We are the go-to strategic partners for our clients.

Invent with Intent: We create meaningful solutions to solve real problems.

Courageously Curious: We challenge ourselves to think disruptively.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment experience to everyone. This commitment to inclusion is explicitly inclusive of race, colour, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or disability.

Lucid was started with a core ideology rooted in a legacy of innovation and dedication. For the past 20 years we have successfully transformed healthcare communications for the better. From our ambitious agency beginnings we have grown organically and through strategically aligned acquisition. We are currently based in 4 global locations, and our 500 worldwide colleagues are the trusted partners for 100s of top brands and client teams, big and small.