Principal Medical Writer (Digital/Creative Agency)

About Us

AVT Connect, a Creative Technology and Healthcare Communications agency, delivers industry-leading digital services and solutions. The agency combines expertise in consumer digital marketing and healthcare communications to deliver integrated digital campaigns that enhance customer experiences. Our full-service approach offers thought leadership and specialist skills in healthcare PR, digital, promotion and training, allowing us to create inspiring work and generate interactive experiences that stand out from the rest.

If you are passionate about delivering best in class content, with strong scientific medical writing skills and thrive in a collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply to become part of our welcoming team dedicated to making a difference in healthcare.

Our Culture — Seeking Excellence

Our success is founded on our four values, placing our customers at the heart of everything we do:

• We seek perfection – our quality systems and culture are based on the primary goal of “Getting It Right First Time” (GIRFT).
• We encourage curiosity and creativity, new ideas, and are constantly seeking to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
• We are passionate about user experience design, bringing scientific content alive, and making complex topics easy to understand and accessible to all.

We are a fun, diverse, and collaborative team of self-starters who take pride in our work. Personal development and well-being are a key focus for everyone at the business, with regular lunch and learn sessions and socials to keep the office culture vibrant. This is an exciting time to join and help shape the agency's strategic offering and deliver impactful campaigns.

About the role:

There is an exciting opportunity for a Principal Medical Writer to join our growing team.

As our client portfolio continues to grow, and we deliver cutting edge content and experiences across a range of innovative therapy areas, we seek highly motivated and experienced people who can help us build long-term strategic partnerships.

Key responsibilities:

• Use your extensive writing experience, expertise, insight and care to create accurate, engaging and compelling content.
• Play a key role in building strategic plans with our clients
• Collaborate professionally with cross-functional teams to develop a wide range of marketing assets and medical education resources.
• Ensure content complies with international laws, standards, and codes of practice for medical communications.
• Apply a good understanding of biomedical statistics to accurately communicate data in a meaningful and correct way.
• Use your familiarity with the essential documentation associated with evidencing claims, to accelerate and support the creative process to successful completion.
• Be able to efficiently evidence your work with precise referencing.
• Proofread and quality assure content for accuracy, style, punctuation, and grammar.
• Mentoring others, collaboration with contractors.

Desirable attributes:

• Minimum 3 years of successful medical writing achievement in a commercial healthcare industry setting.
• Familiarity with our target audiences.
• BSc, MSc, or PhD in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, biotechnology, pharmacology.
• Regulatory or Quality experience is desirable e.g. ISO 9001, MDR, ISO 13485, GMP, 21 CFR Part 11.
• Exceptional writing skills in the English language.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to proofread your own and others' work.
• Experience with industry-standard controlled document systems such as Veeva.
• Experience creating content for digital/online and omnichannel outputs
• Experience in line-management and development of other medical writers
• Ability to build therapy area expertise in narrow timeframes

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Cycle to work scheme
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Retail discount