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About the Role
Senior Editors play a key role in ensuring the quality, accuracy, and consistency of scientific and medical communications deliverables across a range of client accounts. They work closely with scientific and client services teams, providing expert editorial review, supporting project delivery, and acting as a trusted source of editorial guidance. They contribute to the development of editorial processes and support the growth of less experienced editors through coaching, feedback, and mentoring. In this role, they have an opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of projects while helping to maintain the high standards our clients expect from Prime.
Responsibilities
- Editing and proofreading a wide range of medical communications materials, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
- Reviewing content for grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, and formatting.
- Developing and maintaining editorial style guides and ensuring deliverables comply.
- Applying tracked changes and editorial feedback clearly and effectively.
- Performing quality control reviews and providing constructive feedback.
- Acting as a senior point of contact for complex editorial queries and style decisions.
- Collaborating with scientific and client services teams to support efficient project delivery.
- Helping coordinate editorial workload and resource planning across projects.
- Supporting the development of editorial best practices, processes, and quality standards.
- Mentoring and coaching junior editors, contributing to their ongoing development.
Requirements
- 3-year editing experience in medical communications.
- Previous editing experience, ideally within medical communications, healthcare, or scientific publishing.
- Exceptional written English, grammar, and attention to detail.
- Strong copy-editing, proofreading, and quality control skills.
- Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience providing feedback, mentoring, or supporting the development of colleagues.
- Confidence working across multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
- Advanced proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Endnote, and SharePoint.
- Experience using tracked changes, digital markup tools, and style guides.
- A collaborative approach and passion for delivering high-quality work.
Skills
- Editing
- Proofreading
- Medical communications
- Scientific communications
- Quality assurance
- Client services
- Editorial guidance
- Process development
- Coaching
- Feedback
- Mentoring
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Style
- Formatting
- Tracked changes
- Quality control
- Stakeholder management
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Adobe Acrobat
- Endnote
- SharePoint
- Digital markup tools
- Style guides
Location
- Hybrid Working
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- Senior
- 3-year editing experience
Education Level
- Life sciences degree
Salary/Compensations
- 33 days annual leave
- Birthday day off
- Christmas shutdown period
Benefits
- 33 days annual leave
- Birthday day off
- Christmas shutdown period
- 5% pension contribution
- Private medical health insurance
- Medical cash plan
About the Company
- Accelerating Life-Changing Solutions to Global Healthcare Challenges is the vision that unites us through a shared sense of purpose, whatever the role.
- The Prime mission: Through a pioneering fusion of the finest expertise in science, strategy, evidence, technology and creativity we deliver the world-class outcomes that our global partners trust to achieve their goals.
- Four core values: Be Brave, Be Human, Be Passionate, Be Exceptional.