Sciterion – Medical communications that enable positive change in clinical practice to benefit the lives of people living with health issues.
Sciterion is focused on delivering science that speaks to people. Our mission is to drive excellence in medical affairs including medical education and medical communications. We facilitate meaningful exchange between industry, healthcare professionals, and patients.
Our diverse and passionate teams explore, innovate, and develop solutions together delivering credible and compelling medical content via engaging and immersive experiences. We are now recruiting for a Principal Medical Writer.
As a Principal Medical Writer, you will develop scientific expertise across therapeutic areas, working in partnership with our Client Services and Creative teams. You will provide high-level medical writing support across these accounts alongside mentoring members of the medical writing team.
Maintain a high quality of medical writing with excellent briefing and reviewing skills
Assist with the promotion of quality control processes and procedures
Build an understanding of client and competitor products, therapy areas, portfolio, and clinical and commercial strategy in the context of the current market
Act as the Technical Lead on designated client projects
Work collaboratively with account team members to ensure that all account objectives are met
Identify opportunities to maximise existing client accounts
When appropriate, contribute to development of project specifications, cost estimates, and reconciliations
Monitor project costs against agreed budgets and notify the Client Services team of any changes to the specification at the earliest opportunity
Proven medical writing experience within a healthcare communications agency, with knowledge of a broad range of communications activities
The ability to tailor your writing style appropriately for different target audiences
Life science degree educated, ideally with a higher qualification MSc or PhD
In-depth working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry