Senior Editor
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry.
Ogilvy Health UK is made up of healthcare communication specialists across the disciplines of medical education and communications; brain sciences; brand promotion; digital and social; strategic planning; public relations; and creative/design. We believe we are like no other: we blaze new trails; we encourage a culture of creativity and innovation; we challenge, and we change; and we recognise and reward our team.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
About the Role
This is more than a copy-editing role; you will act as a champion of quality, helping to streamline editorial processes and flexibly support our medical writers with high-value tasks during varied workflows.
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Copy Editing & Proofreading: Edit, proofread, and format complex scientific and medical education content across a wide range of channels, formats, and materials (including slide decks, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, advisory board reports, and video content)
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Data Checking: Challenge and verify scientific claims, figures, and tables against primary source references to ensure
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with writers, account managers, and creative teams to deliver high-quality scientific communications on time and within scope.
- Team Development & Mentorship: Provide guidance, support, and peer-to-peer mentoring to other team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and high editorial standards.
- Experience: A minimum of 5 years of medical editing experience within a medical communications (MedComms) or Medical Education (MedEd) agency setting is strictly required.
- Technical Rigor: Outstanding proofreading and copy-editing skills with an impeccable grasp of medical terminology, AMA style, and regulatory guidelines.
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Data Literacy: Experience data-checking, referencing, and supporting medical writing teams with scientific cross-checking.
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Agility & Proactivity: High resilience, excellent time management, and the ability to comfortably manage the shifting workloads and deadlines typical of end-of-line agency workflows.
- Communication & Collaboration: High emotional intelligence with the ability to adapt your editing style to different therapeutic areas, client preferences, and internal team dynamics.
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Veeva Vault Proficiency: Prior experience working with Veeva Vault (or similar client content management systems) for uploading, annotating, and linking references is
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Proven Data Checking Experience: Previous hands-on experience thoroughly checking data and scientific statements against source materials.
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Line management: Experience in line management or mentoring colleagues.
How We’ll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
Benefits
- Generous Annual Leave: 25 days holiday + your birthday off and a paid volunteering day (with the option to purchase up to an additional 5 days per year after 2 years of service).
- Enhanced Family Support: Premium enhanced parental leave packages.
- Robust Pension Scheme: You pay in 4%, we pay 6%. Following your probation, contributions are matched up to 10.5% (meaning up to 17.5% in total).
- Health & Wellness Perks: Choose from either Private Medical Cover (Bupa), Dental Cover, OR a monthly leisure allowance of £45 to spend on your physical or mental well-being.
- Employee Support Programs: Fantastic assistance via Telus (expert advice and specialist counseling) and Unum’s Help @ Hand (quick, free remote GP access, mental health support, or physiotherapy).
- Coaching & Growth: Free 1-to-1 professional and personal growth coaching provided online by Thrive Partners.
- Learning & Development: Ongoing, comprehensive training opportunities tailored to your career pathway.
Our ambition is to attract the very best diverse talent to Ogilvy, and to be the employer of choice in the UK. We want everyone to feel welcome when they join us, and once they’re here, for them to want to stay with us, grow their career, and to feel they belong with us.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone who wants to work at Ogilvy. For us, diversity, equity and inclusion is integrated into everything that we do. We believe that for creativity to flourish, everything about how we work must have diversity at its core. Your race, colour, ethnic, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, have no bearing on our hiring decisions, but we encourage everyone to feel free to express their true selves in an environment we are consistently striving to make as inclusive as possible.
We aim to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience for all candidates. If you require any adjustments from us to support you through the process or expect to require any adjustments to working conditions to be able to best perform in the role, please let us know. We are happy to consider all reasonable adjustments.
If you live with a disability and you would like to take advantage of our offer of a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme, please ensure you fill out our voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire when applying.
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