Scientific Team Leader Permanent

Our client is an award-winning medical communications agency based in Surrey. Due to continued growth, they are looking for a Scientific Team Leader to further enhance the quality of their offerings and support a team of medical writers.

In this role, you will be able to work closely with brand planners to provide medical strategic direction and tailored innovative solutions to clients. A critical part of the role will also include nurturing the growing writing team to ensure robust and relevant content generation across platforms and deliverables. This is a great opportunity to work closely with other strategic leads to drive strategic thinking and pull-through into global projects within different therapy areas such as (e.g.) oncology, diabetes, and rare diseases.

In addition to a competitive salary, you will also receive great benefits including 25 days holiday (rising with service), bonus, pension, healthcare, day off on your birthday off, high street discounts, season ticket loan, regular appraisals, and much more.

Responsibilities:

• Work with account teams and senior leadership to ensure all account objectives are met
• Proactively suggest opportunities for growing existing client accounts
• Contribute to the development of proposals, and present at pitches when appropriate
• Work with Client Service teams to input into scopes and budgets as required
• Promote and maintain a high quality of medical writing across the team and demonstrate strong briefing and reviewing skills
• Assist with the development, monitoring and promotion of quality control processes and procedures

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Life science degree (MSc or PhD preferable)
• Significant editorial or writing experience in the medical communication industry.
• Experience of managing or mentoring editors/writers.
• Broad scientific and therapeutic experience with excellent research and analytical abilities; experience in cardiovascular, oncology and immunotherapy therapy areas a plus
• Excellent editorial competency and the ability to critically review project work for scientific accuracy and integrity
• Able to identify new business opportunities, and to drive proposal development and presentation to clients
• An excellent communicator, influencer and networker

This is a great opportunity to work for a leading agency in a fun and supportive environment. As our client works as a meritocracy, you will have excellent opportunities for career progression based on your personal performance.

For more information or to submit an application for this role, please contact Sabine Willms on 01932 797963 or sabine.willms@id-ss.com.

ID Search & Selection has been successfully placing candidates in healthcare communications jobs for over 15 years. Along the way we’ve built many long term relationships with candidates and clients. We’re now trusted recruitment partners to many leading companies, big, small, network and independent.

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