Company Description
Who we are
Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Policy, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients.
Health brings us together. In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity. When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together.
Having expert thinking is only part of our story. To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts: science, strategy and creativity.
Overview
In this Associate Director-level role, you will lead a high-performing writing team, being accountable for scientific knowledge and content development on one large account and/or several smaller accounts for the business, being seen as a leader of scientific knowledge, content creation, and medical communications activities, across the MSE Team at Langland.
Responsibilities
- Providing effective leadership for a medical writing team
- Being seen by the client/experts as a lead member of the team
- Supporting Client Services with resource alignment and recruitment to optimise team performance
- Advocate for the medical writing team both internally and externally
- Taking overall responsibility for a writing team’s content delivery for designated accounts
- Leading scientific pitch research and presentation for MSE opportunities
- Providing active counsel and recommendations to clients, partnering with client teams to develop editorial and content plans and optimise the impact of the writing team
- Maintaining high-profile visibility within the agency as a content and scientific expert across multiple therapy areas
- Proactively identifying opportunities and threats to the team, and evolving business needs
- Supporting the development of therapy area and/or brand scientific strategy (in collaboration with the Scientific Strategy Team where appropriate)
Qualifications
- Considerable experience within a medical communications agency
- Considerable experience in medical writing within medical affairs and medical education
- Overarching scientific and content leadership for accounts
- Responsibility for maintaining high editorial and scientific standards across a team
- Development of writing talent through direct line management and training
- An ability to motivate and inspire people, and elevate standards of content curation
- Strong internal, client and expert relationships
Please note: Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based four days during the working week.
Additional Information
Langland has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees, full details of which are shared when you join. This includes the classics like Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical, as well as Reflection Days, Shared Parental Leave, and spans other initiatives like:
📖 Please check out the Publicis Career Page, which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).
At Langland, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.
Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.
