Principal Medical Writer

As a Principal Medical Writer, you will be the trusted, client‑facing lead for one or more flagship accounts, shaping high‑quality scientific content that makes a impact in life sciences education. You’ll create accurate, compelling, and referenced materials across a broad range of training deliverables—such as self‑study curricula and interactive workshops.

Recognised as a subject‑matter expert within the life sciences training space, you’ll bring both strategic insight and editorial excellence to every project. In this senior role, you’ll also have the opportunity to mentor fellow medical writers, elevating standards, share best practices, and contribute to the continued growth of the team.

You will report into the Scientific Director

What will you do...
Content Creation

Serve as the client-facing lead writer on one or more accounts

Research material for assigned projects, including performing literature searches

Writing fully referenced and well-organized content outlines

Write fully referenced drafts that are:

Medically and scientifically accurate

Clear, well-written, and engaging

Aligned to the scientific strategy

Appropriate to the audience

Appropriate to the deliverable type (print, digital, film and workshop)

Aligned to the supplied style guide and/or writing template

Infuse instructional design elements (e.g. learning goals, practice activities, assessment questions) into written materials

Incorporating feedback (internal reviews, client feedback, MLR feedback)

Mark up references to support your writing

Incorporating copyedit and fact check changes

Attend and represent scientific on internal and external meetings, including answering content-related questions and presenting recommendations

Collaborate cross-functionally with internal team members from creative, learning experience design, performance, learning delivery, and editorial

Perform peer‑reviews of fellow Principal Medical Writers' work

Manage time to ensure that projects are delivered within the budgeted hours

Complete all work within the allocated time and following project specifications

Business Growth

Help with research to gain an understanding of the disease state, portfolio/pipeline, and/or competitive landscape for an identified therapeutic area or company

Clarifying client needs for assigned accounts and developing scientific recommendations in response

Participate in internal brainstorming sessions to support assigned accounts

Partner with Scientific Director to provide scope (i.e. writing hours) estimates for assigned projects

Mentorship

Provide medical writing mentorship to one or more medical writers on the team

What do you need to have...

Graduate degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, MD) in the life sciences, pharmacology, or medicine

At least 5 years of relevant medical writing experience focused on pharmaceutical sales training, ideally gained within a healthcare communications agency

Fluency in conducting literature searches

Experience developing scientific content suitable for a variety of deliverable types

Current knowledge of AMA style guidelines and ability to write within guidelines

Working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly the drug development and commercialization processes

Experience working on multiple projects and within deadlines

Just a few of our benefits...

Great compensation package

23 days' personal leave plus public holidays and volunteering leave

Private Medical Plan and Life Insurance

401(K) Plan

Hybrid working

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