Description:
Principle Medical Writer
Role Purpose
Our Principals play a fundamental role in shaping individual projects within an account with the support and direction of others. They co-lead the creation of outstanding medical content across various therapy areas and provide strategic insights to elevate client deliverables. This position is ideal for a proactive communicator who enjoys managing writing teams, ensuring quality and accuracy, and acting as a primary contact for clients. Our Principals have the opportunity to specialise in content development, team leadership, and/or strategic thinking.
Key Responsibilities
All Principals share the following core responsibilities
- Therapy area and scientific expertise: Co-lead development of high-quality medical content under senior direction across multiple therapy areas and initiatives to meet/exceed client expectations
- Strategic thinking:
- Provide strategic input to aligned accounts
- Demonstrate confidence and competent in questioning to probe and understand client briefs and distill for Real Chemistry teams
- Adopt a questioning mindset to scientifically and strategically challenge and elevate outputs with clients and internal teams
- AI: Co-lead implementation of AI into new projects and initiatives under senior direction within an account
- Client relationships: Act as day-to-day medical contact for clients
- Managing and advising:
- Manage and mentor junior individuals and teams to work competently, confidently and efficiently to deliver high-quality work in high-pressure situations
- Be responsible for guaranteeing the accuracy and quality of assets and that they are crafted and delivered in line with client objectives and expectations
- Delegate work within account to ensure everyone is hitting billable targets and learning through new opportunitiesThe Principal, Medical Content additionally has the following responsibilities
- Project expertise: Co-lead excellent medical content across a broad range of deliverables, demonstrating versatility
- Content excellence:
- Uphold and advocate for the highest standards in medical writing within accounts
- Identify the most appropriate channel, style and format for a project to achieve client objectives and maximise engagement
- Quality standards:
- Uphold the highest standards within accounts
- Advocate for best practices in project management and delivery to maintain the highest content quality within account
- Lead development of knowledge training for junior members within account
The Principal, Medical Team Additionally Has The Following Responsibilities
- Coaching and mentoring:
- Provide coaching and mentorship to JMWs/MWS/SMWs
- Coordinate specialised mentorship programs for JMWs
- Overarching planning to meet KPIs/timelines/budget:
- Manage and prioritise competing workloads within the account, fostering a comprehensive understanding of the team's projects
- Be responsible for guaranteeing that assets are crafted and delivered in line with KPIs, timelines, and budget constraints
- Financial and resource management
- Define and organise resource distribution within accounts to facilitate strategic succession planning and to optimise the alignment of medical colleagues' skills and capacity with account requirements
- Participate in general financial oversight of the account
The Medical Strategist Additionally Has The Following Responsibilities
- Business development:
- Support definition/shape of strategy on new business proposals and pitches
- Contribute to identification of opportunities for organic growth through participating in key engagements
- Strategic leadership:
- Support the shaping and execution of strategy for projects in collaboration with medical writing and client service teams and key strategic contact
- Act as knowledge partner by confidently engaging with clients to exchange ideas, create options etc in conjunction with medical writing and accounts teams
- Provide input on how a scientific evidence-base can shape a brand’s go-to market strategy, positioning, evidence generation and medical communication strategy
- Critical thinking:
- Identify key actionable insights, recommendations, opportunities, threats, and critical success factors to inform product strategies
- Shape and structure meetings/workshops to support decision-making
Qualifications And Skills
- You should bring previous experience of medical writing at an SMW level or above
- Previous experience managing medical writers and interacting regularly with clients is essential
- A profound understanding of healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential
- A high level of academic achievement is expected
- You’ll need to be personable, articulate, and capable of nurturing relationships