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At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.
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Medical Writer
Role Purpose
Our MWs play a fundamental role in our business by contributing to day-to-day project delivery within an account to create outstanding medical content across a variety of therapy areas. This position is ideal for a proactive communicator with a passion for science, a keen interest in AI, and a keen eye for detail who is looking to develop their medical writing career further.
This role is based in the UK and employed under a UK contract of employment, with contractual working hours of 40 hours per week, but works as part of teams supporting US business and clients. The role works closely with US-based colleagues and may have day-to-day line management from leaders supporting US business. As for any role in Real Chemistry, reasonable flexibility to work across US and other time zones will be required depending on business need.
Key Responsibilities
- Scientific knowledge:
- Has a good understanding of assigned therapeutic areas
- Effectively analyses and interprets scientific data to work on a wide range of assigned projects
- Strategic knowledge:
- Understands the medical affairs and commercial spaces within which clients work
- Reviews literature and competitive information to continually expand understanding of brand/marketplace and emerging competitors and shares findings and implications with teams
- Participates in meetings and strategic discussions with clients, authors, and advisors
- AI
- Confidently and efficiently uses AI tools to support assigned tasks, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in their work
- Seeks out new opportunities to apply AI tools in to improve personal workflow and task management
- Project ownership:
- Takes some responsibility for day-to-day delivery of scientific content under supervision of MW2 or SMW and higher
- Ensures communication objectives are met on assigned projects
- Editorial:
- Adapts writing style to suit different audiences (e.g. primary and secondary care physicians, nurses or patients)
- Structure and writes more commercially focused or complicated materials such as story flows/strategic frameworks, competitor intelligence, advisory board reports, etc. with clear supervision from SMW or higher
- Quality control:
- Ensures all work is referenced appropriately and is provided with a full reference pack
- Ensures all work is tagged appropriately on VVPM
- Is fully adherent to and shows a good working knowledge the ABPI code of conduct
- Demonstrates knowledge of good practice/industry guidelines and ensures project work is compliant with these with supervision from senior team
- On site: May go on-site across a variety of events and interacting with clients and faculty to develop and finalise content
- Client liaison: Has begun to have client contact for content development on straight-forward projects and escalates queries in more challenging scenarios
- Project management
- Adheres to project schedules and briefs
- Understands key dates in project timelines and keeps the account team apprised of status on projects by providing timely and accurate communication
- Proactively clarifies how a project status is tracking versus the number of hours available
- Participates in the tracking of project deliverables, identifying impact of out-of-scope changes
- Adheres to project budgets, or proactively provides appropriate reasons not to
- Teamwork: Trains/mentors junior writers on writing and company processes
Qualifications and skills
- You should bring a strong scientific background with a degree in a scientific or medical discipline (post-graduate degree preferred). A high level of academic achievement is expected
- A passion for, and profound understanding of, healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential, as well as a keen interest in AI technologies
- You’ll need to be personable, articulate, and have a keen eye for detail
- You should bring previous experience as a (junior) medical writer at an agency or within a pharmaceutical organisation
What Real Chemistry offers
Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks. Learn more about our great benefits and perks at: http://www.realchemistry.com/
Real Chemistry is proud to be Great Place to Work® certified; check out what our people shared about our culture and workplace on our Great Places to Work Profile here.
We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com.
Working with Real HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us. For employees who are within an hour of one of our offices, we expect attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are also actively opening new office locations, so if one opens near you, our Real HART policy will apply. We are not looking for attendance for the sake of attendance but believe that the opportunity to coordinate in-office team meetings, 1:1 meetings with managers, taking advantage of on-site learning, and connecting with client partners is a critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. Outside of these offices, we have regions, where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach. Real Chemistry believes we are best together – and our workplace strategy fosters connection and collaboration in person – but also supports flexibility for our people.
Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.
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