Senior Copywriter - Healthcare Communications in Westminster

Overview: Otherwise known as the "essential functions," these are the parts of the job crucial to successful performance.

Responsibilities:

• Provides tone, style, structure, and voice for all content based on scientific brand strategy, creative brief, and cross-functional team.
• Able to pivot writing approach, tone, and "voice" to reach different clients, brands, and audiences.
• Writes for one or more brands, working closely with medical to ensure clinical accuracy while staying true to the brand voice.
• Writes clear, concise, accurate, and well-organized copy appropriate to the relevant format and/or channel (print, digital, online, potentially social).
• Is responsible for short- and long-form copy development for both HCP and patient audiences; prepares copy for review with creative lead, medical, and account teams.
• Actively participates in discovery, customer strategy sessions, Big Idea generation, and client meetings; helps shape all content development.
• Actively participates in shaping the creative strategy by demonstrating strong conceptual abilities and offering unique solutions to challenges.
• Clearly and confidently presents highly regulated, scientifically oriented creative work to clients, including medical and regulatory reviewers (with oversight); presents work to internal teams as well (creative, medical, and account).
• Integrates the conceptual creative approach with client’s medical and legal requirements and contributes to strategic and tactical advertising/communications concepts that address business challenges.
• Experience working in concert with an art-side partner (e.g., Senior Art Directors) is required.
• Experience working with medical writers, client services, and editors to ensure work is on target, on strategy (meeting business objectives), and on deadline.
• Manages multiple projects, sometimes for different brands; manages workload and timing, proactively informing copy lead and project manager of potential threats to meeting deadlines.
• Contributes to a culture of collaboration and creativity within the team and the wider agency.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in advertising, communications, journalism, or similar creative writing program.

Experience: 3-5 years of professional writing experience and creative leadership in an advertising or digital agency; pharma or health and/or wellness/healthcare writing experience required. Strong experience working on large cross-channel and/or direct marketing brand initiatives, including rich media, web, direct, print; experience with online and social media is a plus. The candidate must present a solid portfolio of campaign material (conceptual through completion) that represents their individual writing across multiple channels and platforms. Portfolio demonstrates strategic solutions to client problems or projects that show strategic and conceptual thinking across a broad range of tactics, including both short- and long-form writing. Experience helping lead and support a creative team (art and copy) on brand strategy and deliverables; this seasoned individual contributor may oversee creative team members on assigned projects. Deep experience in pharmaceutical writing from a strategic (brand and scientific research) foundation. Ability to create written materials from concept through execution across multiple platforms (digital and traditional).

Company overview and benefits: 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 #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people; we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. 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.

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