Senior Medical Writer

About this role

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.

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Senior Medical Writer

Our Senior Medical Writers are responsible for driving day-to-day project delivery (with support from others) within an account in order to create outstanding medical content across a variety of therapy areas. This position is ideal for an experienced writer who has a passion for scientific and medical developments, a keen interest in AI, and who enjoys tackling new problems, interacting with clients, and mentoring internal team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Scientific knowledge:

• Confidently steps into new therapeutic areas

• Starting to lead discussions with clients and external experts on therapy area, drivers which influence treatment decision-making and patient pathways

• Strategic knowledge: Helps to lead meetings and strategic discussions with clients

• AI

• Proactively utilizes a broad range of AI solutions to streamline complex projects, with support from others

• Evaluates and implements AI-driven solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of projects, identifying opportunities for improvement and collaborating with team members to optimize project delivery

• Provides guidance and training to team members on best practice

• Project ownership:

• Leads content delivery for complex projects with supervision from senior team, delegating to AMW/MWs as needed and where appropriate to ensure timely execution to a high standard

• Skilled in achieving communications objectives by employing a broad range of channels and formats

• Project development:

• Interrogates briefs from clients/internal teams and proactively flags any queries or potential issues

• Applies critical thinking skills towards a project brief to achieve deliverables in a timely and efficient manner

• Provides a proactive, solution-focused approach towards resolving queries, and addressing feedback

• Initiates discussions with Account Teams regarding potential barriers to successful project completion that may arise

• Editorial:

• Develops compelling narratives from complex information

• Structures and writes novel projects that may not have been executed previously

• Quality control:

• Takes responsibility for overall quality of deliverables with supervision from senior team

• Reviews JMWs’ work for adherence to brief, client objectives and quality of writing, providing constructive feedback

• On site: Leads elements of the on-site programme across a variety of events with support from others

• Client liaison: Leads scientific discussion with clients and external experts as appropriate to capture briefs, resolve queries, and progress scientific content development in timely and efficient manner

• Growth and new business

• Supports development of scientific content for new therapeutic areas for new business

• Proactively identifies new business opportunities with new and existing clients

• Project management: Provides timely and accurate communication to accounts team on writer hours, and project progress

• Teamwork: Trains/mentors junior writers on account-specific therapy area knowledge and processes

Qualifications and skills

• You should bring a strong scientific background with a degree in a scientific or medical discipline (post-graduate degree preferred). A high level of academic achievement is expected

• You should bring previous experience of medical writing at an MW level or above

• A passion for, and profound understanding of, healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential, as well as a keen interest in AI technologies

• You’ll need to be personable, articulate, and capable of nurturing relationships. Previous…