Due to continued growth this very successful independent communications agency has an opportunity for a Senior Medical Writer to be based in either London or Cheshire. This company has sustained growth over the last seven years and will provide significant promotional opportunities with their global organisation.

Business objectives:

• Producing high quality medical copy that meets the clients communication objectives, to budget and on time
• Ensuring the quality of the teams editorial output
• Acting as in house scientific expert for allocated therapeutic areas
• Key day to day contact with authors and opinion leaders
• Managing key writing projects with 90% billable hours
• Reviewing editorial output for the team to add value in terms of scientific accuracy and meeting strategic objectives
• Providing a leadership and mentoring role in the team and the company
• Establishing and maintaining good working relationships with colleagues, clients, external authors and opinion leaders
• Ensuring that medical communications are produced in accordance with the companies standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Maintaining and updating knowledge and expertise in relevant subject areas, and proactively sharing insights and relevance with team
• Acting as the owner of the science in projects
• SMW performance parameters
• Leadership

Skills and behaviour:

• Strategic, Financial, Client service, Team leadership
• Remaining in control and performing under pressure
• Managing time effectively
• Advanced experience in writing across a range of medical communications activities
• Leadership qualities, including: communicating company vision and culture, and account strategic leadership within the context of writing activities
• Initiative, common sense and a high level of independence
• A high degree of financial understanding and management
• Proactive management of client business
• Establishing and maintaining professional and productive client relationships
• Effective delegation to writers and Editorial Assistant (EA) in the team
• Clear communication to team, across departments and to senior management
• Conducting themselves professionally at all times, including:
• Smart business casual dress in the office and business smart for all client meetings
• Prompt time-keeping

Responsibilities:

• Taking, interpreting and implementing project briefs from client or other team members
• Clearly identifying the communication objectives of a project by working directly with the client and senior team members
• Ensuring production of high-quality medical writing across a variety of communications, such as journal manuscripts, marketing communications (e.g. newsletters, product monographs), meetings-related materials (e.g. abstracts, slides) and new media (e.g. inter/intranet sites)
• Ensuring that their own and the team's medical copy is scientifically accurate, clear, and appropriate to the target audience
• Ensure that medical copy is produced in accordance with the client's preferred style and that it meets the communication objectives of the client
• Provide suitable original illustrations to accompany text and ensure that permission to use illustrations has been obtained from the publisher/author
• Accurately interpret and implement feedback from clients, authors or opinion leaders (provide counsel to resolve conflicting feedback)
• Manage and update project files
• Call, attend and contribute to internal project briefing/discussion meetings
• Where appropriate, attend client meetings
• Assist the publication team in monitoring actual writing hours/costs against those budgeted, and where appropriate, implement incremental billing
• Assist the ATL in producing budgets for projects
• Keep project files and references up-to-date
• Keep the appropriate members appraised about the status of projects
• Alert the appropriate members to potential problems on projects and discuss possible solutions
• Attend scientific meetings (e.g. conferences, roundtable meetings and workshops) to provide on-site support, gather appropriate information (e.g. notes, tape recordings) for communication outputs and, where appropriate, manage faculty members
• Provide clear, accurate project briefings to more-junior members of team
• Provide constructive comments when reviewing a colleague's work for medical/scientific content
• Provide mentoring and on-the-job training for more-junior members of the client service team
• Assist more-junior team members in interpreting feedback from clients, external authors or opinion leaders
• Provide constructive feedback to the ATL and ETL regarding the above three points
• Working with the New Business team to expand current business by suggesting new projects
• Working with the New Business team on the development of proposals and, when required, attending and presenting at new business pitches

Other responsibilities:

From time to time, SMWs may be asked to undertake other duties. If these duties become permanent, they will, after discussion with the SMW, be included in the job description. SMWs may also be expected to work at weekends (e.g. to attend scientific meetings, congresses) and to carry out duties that arise due to sickness or holidays of other staff.

Benefits:

• Great salary
• Bonus
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Flexible working hours
• Gym membership

This is an excellent opportunity to join a market leading company. If you would like further details on this role please contact David Proudfoot on 01932 797963 or by email.

If this is not quite the role for you, do not hesitate to contact us for a conversation regarding similar roles to be discussed in confidence. We would be pleased to provide advice and/or guidance for your next move.

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