Senior Medical Writer

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

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Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Medical Writer to join our growing team!

As a Senior Medical Writer at Real Chemistry, you will be working across several therapy areas to create a range of material, ensuring the language and content is appropriate for the target audience. Naturally your work will be of the highest quality, scientifically accurate and aligned to the relevant brand.

What you’ll do:

• Able to step confidently into therapeutic areas outside those already assigned

• Confident in leading discussions on therapy area, drivers influencing treatment decision-making and patient pathways with clients and external experts

• Undertakes content delivery for more complex projects with minimal supervision from senior team and delegating to AMW/MWs as needed to ensure timely execution to a high standard

• Clear, persuasive writing style, able to develop a compelling narrative from complex information. Able to:

• Structure and write novel projects that may not have been executed previously

• Take responsibility for overall quality of deliverables with minimal oversight

• Apply critical thinking skills towards applying a project brief to achieve deliverables in a timely and efficient manner, challenging and evolving client briefs as appropriate to ensure a high-quality result aligned with a client’s goals

• Understands how to balance telling a coherent and compelling story within the regulatory framework

• Able to review junior writers’ work for adherence to brief, client objectives and quality of writing, providing constructive feedback to support professional development

• Able to challenge client / account teams on the most effective approach in addressing client / brand needs

• Has a point of view on client strategy and ensures messaging is meeting the strategic intent

• Leads scientific discussion with clients and external experts as appropriate to capture briefs, resolve queries, and progress scientific content development in timely and efficient manner

• Can ‘sell’ (i.e., present) work to clients and has the ability to articulate the story

• Provides input and recommendations to enhance service offering and support organic growth of designated accounts

• Can articulate the scientific story to non-scientific colleagues in a clear and concise manner

• Able to flex to changing pressures from client timelines and needs while protecting QC steps to maintain output even if this means ‘pushing back’

• Proactively identifies new business opportunities with new and existing clients

• Supports the development of scientific strategy for other therapeutic areas for new business and can present this as part of a pitch presentation

• Trains/mentors and manages junior writers on writing and company processes

• Provides scientific and editorial feedback regarding material development to peers in support of client goals

• Drives project completion, ensuring all internal deadlines are met, and proactively deals with potential issues

• Provides timely and accurate communication to accounts team on writer hours, and project progress

• Leads meetings and strategic discussions with clients, authors, and advisors

• Provides a proactive, solution-focused approach towards defining client brief and expectations, resolving queries, and addressing feedback

This position is a perfect fit for you if:

• ​Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you.

• You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving.

• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.

• You are highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

What you should have:

• Experience in a Medical Writing role within an agency environment

• Educated to at least Master’s degree level in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy or a related discipline. A PhD would be an advantage, but is not essential

• Proven ability to work under pressure as business needs arise

• Excellent written English (vocabulary and grammar), with good attention to detail

• Good interpersonal and awareness skills

• Excellent IT skills, particularly using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint

• Understands and has experience of Veeva (this wouldn’t be a daily task!)

Real Chemistry is proud to be Great Place to Work® certified; check out what our people shared about our culture and workplace on our Great Places to Work Profile here.

We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.  Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com.

Working with Real HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us. For employees who are within an hour of one of our offices, we expect attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are also actively opening new office locations, so if one opens near you, our Real HART policy will apply. We are not looking for attendance for the sake of attendance but believe that the opportunity to coordinate in-office team meetings, 1:1 meetings with managers, taking advantage of on-site learning, and connecting with client partners is a critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. Outside of these offices, we have regions, where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach. Real Chemistry believes we are best together – and our workplace strategy fosters connection and collaboration in person – but also supports flexibility for our people.

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.

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