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About the Role

Ogilvy Health UK is seeking Senior Medical Writers to contribute to medical education and communication programmes, ensuring high-quality scientific content and providing internal leadership. The role involves leading scientific discussions with clients and experts, contributing to scientific strategy, identifying growth opportunities, and supporting proposals and pitches.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the full range of medical education/communication programmes
• Ensuring delivery of high-quality scientific content, reviewing work by junior colleagues, and providing internal leadership of small editorial teams
• Leading scientific discussions with clients and external experts, face to face and on calls
• Contributing to scientific strategy to inform tactical planning of accounts, both internally and with clients
• Helping to identify organic growth opportunities on accounts
• Contributing to the scientific development of proposals and pitches
• Line management, mentoring, coaching, and training

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience as a Medical Writer
• Details of previous agencies, clients, therapy area experience, project types and the audiences for which you have written (e.g. specialists, GPs, nurses, pharmacists and patients)
• Strong communication skills, high emotional intelligence, the ability to adapt your approach according to the needs of clients and teams, and the ability to respond rapidly to situations and manage internal/external issues
• Familiarity with organic growth and contributing to proposals and pitches
• Ability to deliver events and large educational programmes, and experience of digital projects
• Excellent understanding of pharmaceutical regulations, e.g. ABPI, GPP3, ICMJE

Skills

• Medical writing
• Scientific content creation
• Client communication
• Team leadership
• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Training
• Proposal development
• Pitch development
• Event delivery
• Digital project management
• Pharmaceutical regulations

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• An exciting and supportive working environment
• Highly creative and committed colleagues
• A culture that openly encourages new and creative thinking
• Opportunity to work across multiple disciplines
• Unrivalled opportunities for training and personal and professional development
• Tools needed to succeed
• Autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things
• Support from expert colleagues
• Opportunities to do work of which you’ll be proud

About the Company

• Ogilvy, part of WPP, was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy and fosters a culture that respects and cares about its people and clients. Its mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact.
• Ogilvy Health UK comprises healthcare communication specialists in medical education and communications, brain sciences, brand promotion, digital and social, strategic planning, public relations, and creative/design. They are known for blazing new trails, fostering creativity and innovation, and challenging the status quo.
• WPP is a trusted growth partner for leading brands, uniting media intelligence, data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and strategic counsel. They use their agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help clients navigate change, capture opportunity, and deliver transformational growth.

Equal Opportunity

• Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for everyone. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are integrated into their operations, believing that diversity is core to creativity.
• They encourage applications from all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, colour, ethnic origin, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
• Ogilvy aims to facilitate an accessible and positive application experience and is happy to consider all reasonable adjustments for candidates requiring support.
• Candidates living with a disability can opt for a guaranteed interview under the Disability Confident Scheme by completing the voluntary Equal Opportunities Questionnaire.