Associate Director Of Medical Writing
United Kingdom
What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?
Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.
Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.
We’re a team of over 500+ people in Manchester and London, with a history of over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife via YouTube, #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.
Our role :
As an Associate Director of Medical Writing you will have a high level of autonomy and will produce appropriately formatted copy which is suitable for use across a range of media. You will work collaboratively with internal teams to add significant value - applying the benefit of your experience to guide projects, ensuring any copy produced by you and your team is appropriate to the brief and of a high quality.
What you can expect to be doing:
- You will work with the Accounts team to front client relations as appropriate, ensuring the Copy function is always represented appropriately. You will be proactive in identifying opportunities to drive new business activity.
- You will also mentor team members and take overall responsibility for their involvement, actively progressing their abilities and developing them for greater responsibility.
- Input to the development of strategy, advising on all scientific elements to ensure a response that is appropriate to the needs of the target audience, enhancing credibility
- Be instrumental in tracking award-winning work and trends, pushing craft to enhance the effectiveness of the work we produce
- Take the scientific lead in client meetings, workshops and internal discussions in relations to communications strategy around a range of therapy areas
- Draw on knowledge to ensure accuracy and appropriateness in tactical project elements as they are produced. Evaluate and approve materials ensuring that scientific content is accurate and compliant
- Produce and edit copy into the correct format for use across various media as appropriate, drawing on your experience to consider the suitability of UX and project flow
- Understand the clients’ needs both now and, in the future, and develop an offering to suit this
- Continually develop your writing style, honing approach, and ability to tailor copy tone, enabling effective communication with a range of audiences
- Take the lead on client brand activity, be the ‘go-to’ writer across a number of clients and therapy areas
- Understand the requirements of other teams in terms of how copy should be best delivered – proactively seek to improve process wherever possible
- Support the development of new business through involvement in proposals, workshops, and pitches. Acting as lead for the copy team, contribute to the development of pitch activity, and conduct pitch presentations as part of a team to support new business activity
- Ensure work is completed to a high standard and within the agreed timescale.
- Managing others and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
What we’d like to see from you:
- 4 + years experience as a Medical writer in an agency setting ideally across creative medical writing
- Experience working with global pharmaceutical companies and creative brief's
- Experience working directly with clients
- A solid scientific background and experience working on a number of therapeutic areas
- Learning and understanding new therapy areas quickly and comprehensively, inspiring confidence with the client
- Proven experience leading and developing a team of medical writers
- Understanding of clinical research, drug development process, and industry guidelines and regulations
What you can expect from us
A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.
You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:
- Hybrid Working
- 28 days annual leave
- Increasing holiday allowance connected to length of service (with the option to buy more, or sell)
- Early Friday finish throughout the year
- Extra early Friday finish during summer months
- Late Monday start during winter months
- Wellness Wednesdays with extended lunch hours
- Wellbeing programme – yoga, football, running club, hiking and more
- Season ticket interest free loans for travel
- #LXAcademy – our huge bespoke training programme for personal and professional development
- Life insurance
- Company pension scheme
- Medicash healthcare benefit
- Enhanced parental return to work scheme
- Fully paid for, company parties and socials!
Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.