Medical Writer

CK Group are recruiting for a Medical Writer to join a pharmaceutical consulting company who are based in Milton Keynes or London on a permanent basis.

Company:

Our client is an innovative consulting company working in the Pharmaceutical industry.

Location:

The role is based in Milton Keynes or London and offers hybrid working with 2-3 days a week on site.

Role:

• Planning and developing scientific content to support clients’ internal education and training programmes and their external medical communications initiatives.
• Planning and writing materials across various formats and in a variety of therapy areas, ensuring in every case that communications objectives are met, and a high level of technical accuracy is maintained.
• Liaising with clients regarding project briefing, planning and delivery and liaison with external experts who are speaking or developing content on behalf of clients.
• Communicating with clients and external experts regarding scientific content.
• Attending and reporting on scientific advisory boards.
• Briefing designers and/or digital developers to ensure scientific content is accurately and effectively portrayed.
• Quality control of final documents.
• Reviewing clinical papers and abstracts to incorporate data effectively into communications materials.
• Developing core claims documents based on the literature.
• Integrating, interpreting, and summarising scientific data from a variety of sources and adapting this information according to the client brief.
• Submitting materials for compliance review and incorporating any necessary changes to obtain approval for use.
• Proficient use of PowerPoint to create and edit slides with a range of complexity, such as formatting text, figures, graphs, and animations.

Your Background:

• Educated to degree level or above in life sciences or a related field.
• Experience of working within the pharmaceutical industry in a similar role either in a pharmaceutical medical/brand/commercial team or in a medical communications agency.
• Experience of a wide range of writing projects (outlines, manuscripts, slide decks, e-learning programmes) and experience in the Oncology therapeutic area would be desirable.
• Ability to interpret clinical data and rapidly assimilate new therapy areas.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• IT literate with working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, WORD, Excel and PowerPoint).

It is essential that applicants hold the entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 152 182 in all correspondence.