Senior Medical Writer

Senior Medical Writer – Ogilvy Health (London or Manchester)

Are you a scientific storyteller with a passion for transforming complex medical insights into compelling narratives? Do you thrive in a dynamic agency environment, shaping global health communications for some of the most innovative treatments?

About the Role

Ogilvy Health is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Medical Writer to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to become a cornerstone of our medical education and communications efforts, working on high impact projects that truly make a difference. We work on a hybrid basis and are open to candidates based in either our vibrant London or thriving Manchester campuses.

This role immerses you in strategically important accounts, working across diverse project types within an integrated MedEd and brand communications team. You’ll develop and deliver scientifically rigorous and engaging content, influencing healthcare professionals and advancing medical understanding, creating a broad spectrum of materials from high‑level scientific concepts for global congresses to patient education resources.

What You’ll Bring

• A Life Sciences background: Robust scientific foundation.
• Significant Medical Communications Agency Experience: Proven track record of several years within the industry.
• Broad Therapeutic Area Acumen: Deep understanding of disease specifics, treatment options, patient pathways, drug mechanisms of action, and complex scientific data across multiple areas.
• Pharmaceutical Industry Insight: Comprehensive knowledge of the drug development process in both pre‑ and post‑launch environments.
• Content Delivery Excellence: Consistent ability to produce scientifically accurate content that meets client objectives, budgets and timelines.
• High‑Science Storytelling: Experience crafting sophisticated scientific content on disease states, unmet needs, and clinical data, often collaborating with top‑tier Key Opinion Leaders for presentations at major scientific congresses.
• Collaborative Spirit: History of successfully working with a variety of external clinical experts.
• Research Prowess: Proficiency in literature searches using databases such as PubMed and tools like PubReMiner.
• Regulatory Savvy: Strong knowledge of and adherence to key ethical and regulatory guidelines, including ABPI guidelines.
• Statistical Understanding: Working knowledge of statistical analyses to interpret and communicate data effectively.
• Not essential but flag if you have experience in immunology, dermatology, or neuroscience.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + birthday off and a paid volunteering day; optional purchase of up to 5 additional days per year.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Generous pension scheme: 4% employee contribution matched 6% from the company, increasing to 10.5% after probation (total 17.5%).
• Choice of Private Medical Cover (Bupa from day one) or Dental Cover or a monthly leisure allowance of £45 for health & wellbeing.
• Employee Assistance Programme: support, advice and specialist counselling.
• Help at Hand: free access to a remote GP, mental health support, physio or a medical 2nd opinion.
• Free 1‑2‑1 Coaching: online coaching for professional or personal growth with Thrive Partners.
• Comprehensive Learning & Development programme.

Equal Opportunity

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

Accommodation

If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or we need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact accommodations@ogilvy.com. This contact is only for candidates requesting accommodation; emails for other purposes will not receive a response.