Associate Principal Medical Writer

Are you an experienced senior medical writer looking to take your career to the next level with a med comms agency that shares your passion for science communication, values your contributions and champions your professional growth? At Scientific Group we offer a leading benefits package along with a wide variety of therapy areas and project types to get involved with and have a comprehensive career development programme that includes training, mentoring and a choice of medical writing career pathways.

We’re seeking a talented Associate Principal Medical Writer to join us who embraces autonomy while exhibiting scientific leadership and excellent communication, teamworking, and collaboration with internal colleagues and external contacts. This is a pivotal role within the team, where you’ll provide broad and deep specialist scientific and medical writing capability with a high degree of autonomy and leadership. The role is perfect for someone who thrives on becoming a therapy area expert, leading the scientific development of complex projects, pitches and proposals, as well as providing in-depth scientific review.

The role will involve:

• Applying in-depth understanding of several therapeutic areas, and offering scientific leadership and support to members of the content team, with the ability to lead efforts to quickly and effectively acquire comprehensive new knowledge and share it with colleagues.
• Providing confident leadership on a wide range of project types, producing accurate, concise and insightful material, and adapting writing style for different audiences and formats.
• Adeptly and confidently researching, interpreting and integrating scientific data from multiple sources, fact-checking to ensure delivery to the highest scientific standards, and mentoring more junior colleagues on these skills.
• Performing internal review of materials and ensuring the delivery of accurate, concise and insightful material across a wide range of project types, audiences and formats.
• Collaborating with account management, creative, and digital teams to scope work, and deliver it to budget and deadline.
• Effective interaction with clients, thought leaders and external teams, providing on-site or virtual medical writing support for meetings/events.

In order to succeed in this role, you will need the following skills and experience:

• Proven medical writing experience in medical communications or medical education in an agency setting.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and planning with the ability to produce high-quality work efficiently.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset and enthusiasm for communicating science to improve patient outcomes.
• A life science degree, or equivalent, is essential; higher degrees are desirable.
• Prior experience in the fields of immunology, cardiometabolic health, neuroscience, and/or oncology will be advantageous.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint.

About Scientific Group: At Scientific Group, scientific excellence is at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace and are working towards ambitious carbon targets across the business. We offer a wide-ranging flexible working policy that allows people to visit the office as much or as little as they would like. Ultimately, we all choose to work at Scientific Group because we want to help improve the lives of our fellow humans and we live this through our company values.

Benefits include:

• Wide-ranging flexible working policy.
• Annual leave starting from 25 days.
• Private medical/dental cover.
• Life insurance.
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus.
• Independent employee assistance programme.
• Memberships for Perkbox and Headspace.
• Subsidised gym membership.
• Salary sacrifice schemes for bicycles and electric cars.
• Vibrant social calendar.

We value diversity and we’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will enhance our team environment. We are a proud Disability Confident Employer and are open to reasonable adjustments.