Principal Medical Writer in Salford

Role Purpose

Our Principals play a fundamental role in shaping individual projects within an account with the support and direction of others. They co‑lead the creation of outstanding medical content across various therapy areas and provide strategic insights to elevate client deliverables. This position is ideal for a proactive communicator who enjoys managing writing teams, ensuring quality and accuracy, and acting as a primary contact for clients. Our Principals have the opportunity to specialise in content development, team leadership, and/or strategic thinking.

Key Responsibilities

• Therapy area and scientific expertise: Co‑lead development of high‑quality medical content under senior direction across multiple therapy areas and initiatives to meet/exceed client expectations.
• Strategic thinking: Provide strategic input to aligned accounts. Demonstrate confidence and competence in questioning to probe and understand client briefs and distill for Real Chemistry teams. Adopt a questioning mindset to scientifically and strategically challenge and elevate outputs with clients and internal teams.
• AI: Co‑lead implementation of AI into new projects and initiatives under senior direction within an account.
• Client relationships: Act as day‑to‑day medical contact for clients.
• Managing and advising: Manage and mentor junior individuals and teams to work competently, confidently and efficiently to deliver high‑quality work in high‑pressure situations. Be responsible for guaranteeing the accuracy and quality of assets and that they are crafted and delivered in line with client objectives and expectations. Delegate work within account to ensure everyone is hitting billable targets and learning through new opportunities.

The Principal, Medical Content additionally has the following responsibilities:

• Project expertise: Co‑lead excellent medical content across a broad range of deliverables, demonstrating versatility.
• Content excellence: Uphold and advocate for the highest standards in medical writing within accounts. Identify the most appropriate channel, style and format for a project to achieve client objectives and maximise engagement.
• Quality standards: Uphold the highest standards within accounts. Advocate for best practices in project management and delivery to maintain the highest content quality within account. Lead development of knowledge training for junior members within account.

The Principal, Medical Team Additionally Has The Following Responsibilities:

• Coaching and mentoring: Provide coaching and mentorship to JMWs/MWS/SMWs. Coordinate specialised mentorship programs for JMWs.
• Overarching planning to meet KPIs/timelines/budget: Manage and prioritise competing workloads within the account, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the team's projects. Be responsible for guaranteeing that assets are crafted and delivered in line with KPIs, timelines, and budget constraints.
• Financial and resource management: Define and organise resource distribution within accounts to facilitate strategic succession planning and to optimise the alignment of medical colleagues' skills and capacity with account requirements. Participate in general financial oversight of the account.

The Medical Strategist Additionally Has The Following Responsibilities:

• Business development: Support definition/shape of strategy on new business proposals and pitches. Contribute to identification of opportunities for organic growth through participating in key engagements.
• Strategic leadership: Support the shaping and execution of strategy for projects in collaboration with medical writing and client service teams and key strategic contact. Act as knowledge partner by confidently engaging with clients to exchange ideas, create options etc in conjunction with medical writing and accounts teams. Provide input on how a scientific evidence‑base can shape a brand’s go‑to‑market strategy, positioning, evidence generation and medical communication strategy.
• Critical thinking: Identify key actionable insights, recommendations, opportunities, threats, and critical success factors to inform product strategies. Shape and structure meetings/workshops to support decision‑making.

Qualifications and Skills

You should bring previous experience of medical writing at an SMW level or above. Previous experience managing medical writers and interacting regularly with clients is essential. A profound understanding of healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential. A high level of academic achievement is expected. You’ll need to be personable, articulate, and capable of nurturing relationships.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.