Associate Medical Writer

The role

The role will provide the opportunity to engage in the drafting, editing and quality assurance of abstracts, posters, presentations and manuscripts.

Initial responsibilities will include:

• High quality support to Franchise teams and the Publications Team
• Development and submission of abstracts
• Creating and submitting posters and presentations for scientific conferences and congresses
• Manuscript drafting from outline to final draft
• Submission of manuscripts ensuring journal guidelines are met
• Co-coordinating response to reviewer's comments and re submission of manuscripts in a standard format
• Gathering any author information required for submissions such as approvals, disclosure forms, e-mail addresses, etc.
• Liaising with teams to follow and incorporate author's feedback (and external authors)
• High level guidance on potential target scientific journals
• Literature reviews
• Liaising with statistical team in order to produce results including tables and figures
• Ensuring the publication process and all materials produced comply with current relevant guidelines
• Other Publications Team support including Publication Database updates, etc.

The person we are looking for - is it YOU?We believe the right candidate will be someone with around 2-5 years of medical writing experience within medical communications/ education, ideally working as a member of an established team who understands all the processes involved in scientific publications. This could be the next career step, especially if interested in RWE.

• 2-5 years of experience in medical writing (Essential)
• Educated to a MSc level or higher (Essential)
• MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint proficiency (Essential)
• Interpersonal skills and team spirit to allow effective collaboration as a member of a wider team (Essential)
• Highly motivated with a proactive approach to work (Essential)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (Essential)
• Good organisational and time management skills
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry
• A high level of numeracy, analytic and interpretive skills
• Attention to detail
• Reference management software user (i.e. EndNote)

We believe in rewarding high performance and so our benefits include a competitive salary, pension, performance-related rewards, a generous holiday allowance, private health insurance and on-site gym membership together with support for further qualifications, in a friendly and informal office environment.