Senior Medical Writer, Healthcare Practice London, Hybrid

Senior Medical Writer, Healthcare Practice

London, Hybrid

In our dedicated Healthcare Practice, we help our healthcare clients bring products, services, and propositions to life, turning complex concepts into simple and compelling messages.

As you’d expect, we’re strong on the science. But we also provide creative flare and strategic know-how, delivering programmes built on unique ideas and insights. We communicate science with passion. It’s a combination that leads to measurable and meaningful outcomes.

What sets our healthcare team apart is their enthusiasm, authenticity, and professional and personal approach. A team that you will enjoy working with.

Role Overview

As a Senior Medical Writer, you will play a key role in delivering scientifically robust, strategically aligned, high-quality content across a range of medical communications outputs.

Working as a key writer on client accounts or workstreams, you will create content that meets client objectives, timelines, and budgets, while contributing to broader account strategy and team development.

This role combines scientific expertise, project ownership, effective communication, and mentoring responsibilities, with close collaboration across scientific, client services, and creative teams to deliver impactful work and support business growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as a key writer across client accounts and workstreams
• Develop accurate, insightful, and compelling content across a range of medical communications materials
• Ensure all deliverables align with client objectives, timelines, and budgets
• Interpret and communicate complex scientific data with clarity and precision
• Contribute to broader account strategy and team development
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver high-quality, strategically aligned outputs
• Lead conversations with clients and/or external experts as a medical communications expert

What You’ll Bring

• A degree in a life science or biomedical discipline (MSc or PhD advantageous)
• At least 3 years’ experience in a medical communications agency environment
• Proven ability to develop accurate, engaging scientific content across diverse formats
• Strong scientific literacy and attention to detail
• Excellent written English and consistency in style and tone
• Competence in Microsoft Office, reference management tools (e.g., EndNote), and client project management systems (e.g., Datavision, Veeva)

What We Offer

Structured support to move into Associate Principal and Principal roles, including targeted mentoring and exposure to cross-functional strategic work

A supportive, people-focused culture that values curiosity, creativity, and scientific excellence

Professional development opportunities within the wider AVENIR GLOBAL network, including training to strengthen scientific, strategic, and leadership skills

Our recruitment process can consist of virtual interviews, in person interviews, and written tasks, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements so that we can accommodate your needs during this process.

We embrace the use of AI across our business and see it as a valuable tool in our work. However, as part of our recruitment process, we ask candidates not to use AI to generate application content or complete written tasks. Submissions may be reviewed using AI detection tools to ensure we can fairly assess each candidate’s own skills and experience. AI use is encouraged once in role.

Our Benefits

As well as the basic salary, great social events and a culture of continual learning, our competitive benefits package includes:

• 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays (rising to a maximum of 30 days alongside length of service)
• Enhanced employer pension contribution
• Private Medical insurance (for you and your family)
• Income Protection insurance
• Financial support and advice
• Travel insurance (for you and your family)
• An annual wellness benefit of £150
• Four-week sabbatical after every 5 years’ service.

Madano offers a range of first rate, dedicated training that enables employees to take control of their careers to become experts in their field and trusted advisors to clients.

Some benefits are contingent on successful completion of probation period.

Madano is committed to a policy of equal opportunities and non-discrimination. At all times we aim to recruit, develop and promote the very best people, basing judgement solely on suitability for the job.

We particularly encourage applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in our sector, such as disabled people, ethnic minorities and neurodiverse people.