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About the Role
Costello Medical is expanding its Medical Communications team and seeks a Senior Medical Writer to deliver high-quality content, manage projects, and build client relationships. This role involves strategic input, project oversight, quality control, and contributing to business development.
Responsibilities
- Lead diverse Medical Communications projects within a skilled project team.
- Deliver high-quality work to clients.
- Review junior colleagues’ work for accuracy and quality.
- Plan and oversee projects.
- Provide strategic input at project initiation.
- Maintain regular communication with clients.
- Contribute to business development by building and sustaining strong client relationships.
- Identify opportunities to extend or enhance services within existing projects.
- Take on greater responsibility for client management, including budgeting and project finances.
- Line management of interns within your team.
Requirements
- Typically at least two years’ professional experience within an agency setting.
- Experience in delivery of medical communications projects (publications, medical affairs, or both).
- Experience communicating directly with clients, including responding to different communication styles.
- Experience in day-to-day leadership of project teams, including delegating tasks and managing the time of others.
- Exceptional attention to detail and high degree of written accuracy.
- Excellent proficiency in written English and arithmetic.
- Strong scientific writing skills with the ability to tailor writing style to different audiences.
- Project management skills sufficient to enable timely project delivery.
- Excellent data presentation skills, including the ability to use Excel, PowerPoint and Word effectively and efficiently.
- Sufficient technical and strategic knowledge to provide clients with recommendations on project content and approach.
- Capacity to maintain exceptional customer service and quality of deliverables under multiple competing demands.
- Proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships.
- Ability to motivate colleagues and take a leading role in the delivery of project components.
- Must submit CV and cover letter explaining suitability and interest, with examples.
- CV must clearly state dates of all qualifications and grades achieved.
Skills
- Medical Communications project delivery
- Client communication
- Project leadership
- Strategic input
- Quality control
- Client relationship management
- Business development
- Budgeting
- Project finances
- Line management
- Scientific writing
- Written English proficiency
- Arithmetic proficiency
- Excel proficiency
- PowerPoint proficiency
- Word proficiency
- Data presentation
- Customer service
Location
- Cambridge
- London
- Manchester
- Bristol
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree-level qualification in a scientific discipline (minimum 2.1)
Salary/Compensations
- £50,000 to £55,000 per annum
Benefits
- Discretionary profit share bonuses paid twice per year
- Hybrid and flexible working options
- Generous holiday allowance
- Private medical insurance
- Critical illness cover
- Income protection
- Full funding for external training
- 4% employer pension contributions
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank and public holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Opportunity to work from home for up to 50% of your working time after passing probation
- Annual flexible benefits allowance of £1,000
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after every five years of continuous service
- Health cash plan
- Paid study leave
- Life Assurance, including 2x salary death-in-service cover
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Season ticket travel loan
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
- Global travel insurance for leisure use
- Two paid volunteering days per year
About the Company
- Costello Medical is a rapidly growing global healthcare agency specialising in medical communications, market access, and health economic and outcomes research.
- We work with a wide range of clients, including the industry’s most successful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, patient and public health bodies, and charitable organisations.
- Listed in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list since 2017.
- Proud to receive B Corporation accreditation in 2022.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce.
- Reasonable adjustments can be provided throughout the recruitment process.