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Medical Writer – Medical Communications, £33-45k (depending on experience)

London, England, United Kingdom

About us:

Virgo Health is a specialist health communications agency, part of the GOLIN group and the wider IPG network of companies with more than 200 offices around the world as well as hubs in London, New York and Chicago.

The Health Education team is a specialist division focusing on medical education. We work across a diverse range of therapeutic areas including vaccines and oncology, multiple sclerosis, nephrology, rheumatology, dermatology and women’s health. Our programmes span the spectrum from pre to post launch, and we work on global, region Europe and UK accounts. We have a diverse range of projects and work collaboratively with our clients to deliver creative and impactful medical communications that makes a difference to healthcare professionals and patients.

When we choose to work in healthcare, we choose to work in an industry with people at its heart; we celebrate our differences and how we complement each other. But at Virgo, ‘Being Human’ is what unites us, and it’s fundamental to our culture. We show empathy and support for each other to grow our skills. embracing inclusive and flexible ways of working and rejecting outdated workplace culture. We have a brilliant team that works well together to deliver effective content and to celebrate our successes.

What is the role?

The medical writer, supported by senior team members as appropriate, will develop creative, technically accurate, and grammatically excellent content for a wide range of medical and commercial materials, tailored to diverse audiences.

What will you be doing?

• Develop high quality medical/scientific content across the spectrum of commercial and medical project types, including training and congress materials
• Confidently develop appropriate messaging, including being aware of any client tactical/strategic plans and aligning to these
• Demonstrate disease or therapy area expertise on designated accounts
• Ensure the content produced is aligned with the client brief
• Liaise professionally with pharmaceutical clients and key thought leaders to discuss scientific aspects of the project and act as the point of contact for both clients and key thought leaders on specified projects

Skills/requirements:

• A minimum of a BSc, masters and/or ideally a PhD in the sciences
• Successful track record of a couple of years in medical writing within a medical communications agency
• Excellent scientific writing style and with skills to adapt content and style to different audience groups
• Excellent attention to detail style/consistency, good grammar, scientific accuracy
• Ability to develop in depth knowledge of therapeutic areas/medical products 
• Understanding of drug development and compliance guidelines for the industry and medical writing, including but not limited to GPP, ABPI and the Sunshine Act
• Excellent time management skills and demonstrated ability to forecast and manage workload
• Flexible approach to working, with the ability to reprioritise and work under pressure when needed
• Excellent inter personal and communication skills
• IT skills (including MS office, database/internet searching, etc.)

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Flexible working, 2 days per week in the office
• 6 weeks annual leave
• 2 volunteering days
• Monthly well-being allowance
• A fantastic office space in Shoreditch with a dog friendly policy
• Industry-leading gender neutral family friendly policies
• Clear career progression and excellent training programmes developed by our L&D Director

+ many other perks!

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At IPG we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.