Senior Medical Writer (SMW)
Role overview and requirements
The core responsibilities of a Senior Medical Writer are to develop high-quality scientific content and brief/review work for junior writers, ensuring excellence throughout.
The role involves applying and overseeing the Helios editorial processes, preparing briefs for the development of scientific materials and demonstrating awareness of a product and account/client strategy while implementing this across own writing projects and in the review of work by other team members. You must be able to apply an understanding and keep up to date with relative therapy areas to act as a scientific point of contact for other team members, clients and externals experts. It is important you are able to ensure chargeable time goal is achieved, apply and provide guidance to other team members.
What we are looking for:
- MSc or PhD in a pharmacology/pharmacy, medicine, biomedical/biological sciences discipline
- We occasionally offer Senior Medical Writer roles to outstanding BSc-level candidates
- Medical writing experience within a medical communications agency (minimum, 3 years’ experience)
- Previous briefing and reviewing experience in a medical communications agency
- Very good editorial/writing skills
- Very good organisational skills
- Very good attention to detail
- Very good team-working ability
- Very good time management
- Very good problem-solving skills
- Very good communication skills
- Very good mentoring skills
The successful candidate will possess a 'can-do' attitude and be able to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
About Helios Global Group
Founded in 2015, Helios has grown from a single agency (Helios Medical Communications) into a large group (the Helios Global Group), comprising four separate agencies: Helios, Selene, Apollo and Cogentia.
We now have offices in five locations (Alderley Edge UK, central Manchester UK, Cambridge UK, Oxford UK, and Connecticut US). Previously, we ranked as the 17th fastest-growing UK company in the Virgin Atlantic Sunday Times Fast Track 100, have been winners of the Alantra Pharma Fast 50 (the fastest-growing privately owned company in the Analytics, Insights and Communications category), and we are in the Top 10 of female-founded UK businesses.
As a successful, dynamic and forward-thinking organisation, we offer each and every team member fantastic opportunities to develop their career. Training and personal development are important parts of working at Helios, supporting our ethos of 'aiming for excellence' and 'being a great place to work'. There is a lot to learn in the world of healthcare communications, so we offer core inductions and in-depth specialist training to all new team members, led by our team of expert trainers. We know that everyone learns in different ways and at different speeds, so our on-the-job training and development is bespoke to you.
