Senior Medical Writer in London

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Our culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities. Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation.

Role Purpose

Our Senior Medical Writers (SMWs) are responsible for driving day-to-day project delivery (with support from others) within an account in order to create outstanding medical content across a variety of therapy areas. This position is ideal for an experienced writer who has a passion for scientific and medical developments, a keen interest in AI, and who enjoys tackling new problems, interacting with clients, and mentoring internal team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Scientific knowledge: Confidently steps into new therapeutic areas, starting to lead discussions with clients and external experts on therapy area, drivers which influence treatment decision-making and patient pathways.
• Strategic knowledge: Helps to lead meetings and strategic discussions with clients.
• AI: Proactively utilises a broad range of AI solutions to streamline complex projects, evaluates and implements AI-driven solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of projects, identifying opportunities for improvement and collaborating with team members to optimise project delivery. Provides guidance and training to team members on best practice.
• Project ownership: Leads content delivery for complex projects with supervision from senior team, delegating to AMW/MWs as needed and where appropriate to ensure timely execution to a high standard. Skilled in achieving communications objectives by employing a broad range of channels and formats.
• Project development: Interrogates briefs from clients/internal teams and proactively flags any queries or potential issues. Applies critical thinking skills towards a project brief to achieve deliverables in a timely and efficient manner. Provides a proactive, solution-focused approach towards resolving queries, and addressing feedback. Initiates discussions with Account Teams regarding potential barriers to successful project completion that may arise.
• Editorial: Develops compelling narratives from complex information. Structures and writes novel projects that may not have been executed previously.
• Quality control: Takes responsibility for overall quality of deliverables with supervision from senior team. Reviews JMWs’ work for adherence to brief, client objectives and quality of writing, providing constructive feedback.
• On site: Leads elements of the on-site programme across a variety of events with support from others.
• Client liaison: Leads scientific discussion with clients and external experts as appropriate to capture briefs, resolve queries, and progress scientific content development in a timely and efficient manner.
• Growth and new business: Supports development of scientific content for new therapeutic areas for new business. Proactively identifies new business opportunities with new and existing clients.
• Project management: Provides timely and accurate communication to accounts team on writer hours, and project progress.
• Teamwork: Trains/mentors junior writers on account-specific therapy area knowledge and processes.

Qualifications and skills

You should bring a strong scientific background with a degree in a scientific or medical discipline (post-graduate degree preferred). A high level of academic achievement is expected. You should bring previous experience of medical writing at an MW level or above. A passion for, and profound understanding of, healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential, as well as a keen interest in AI technologies. You’ll need to be personable, articulate, and capable of nurturing relationships. Previous experience mentoring MWs and interacting regularly with clients is essential.

What Real Chemistry offers

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks. We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vision plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.

Working with Real HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us. For employees who are within an hour of one of our offices, we expect attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are also actively opening new office locations, so if one opens near you, our Real HART policy will apply. We are not looking for attendance for the sake of attendance but believe that the opportunity to coordinate in-office team meetings, 1:1 meetings with managers, taking advantage of on-site learning, and connecting with client partners is critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. Outside of these offices, we have regions, where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach.

Real Chemistry believes we are best together – and our workplace strategy fosters connection and collaboration in person – but also supports flexibility for our people. Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates.

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