Overview

Senior Scientific Director (Medical Writing) – Medical Writing Team Lead, Medical Consulting at VML HEALTH. Based in Manchester with close collaboration across core hubs and domestic teams. VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency and a WPP company.

The Global Strategy Team (GST) brings together four disciplines—Medical Strategy, Engagement Strategy, Brand Strategy, and Medical Consulting—to build brands and shape the healthcare environment. The Medical Consulting team supports organisations to achieve more effective decision making through early, cross-functional collaboration, patient engagement, early commercialization, and disease leadership programmes. This role sits within the Medical Consulting discipline.

Responsibilities

• Must have extensive (minimum 10 years) scientific & value communication writing experience including team/discipline leadership and management experience.
• Broad range of experience across disease areas with preference for Oncology, Haematology, Rare Disease, Immunology, and Neuroscience.
• In-depth technical writing experience across a wide range of deliverables including scientific communications, whitepapers, posters/publications, perspectives papers and value communications.
• Ability to understand, interpret and analyse complex data sets such as clinical trials results and statistical analyses.
• Commercial mindset with a proven track record of driving business growth for writing-based projects & clients across organic, net new, and pitch settings.
• Ability to own & lead teams & programs of writing work to a high standard.
• Strong evidence of leadership and ability to network within a company, clients and healthcare systems, including engaging with and developing content for senior leadership.
• In-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare environment, and healthcare systems, with understanding of a broad range of stakeholders including clinicians, patients, advocates, and policymakers.
• Proven ability to work and lead teams effectively in a busy, deadline-driven environment across the spectrum of discipline needs from research design and execution, scientific strategy, writing, editorial and resource management.
• Can-do attitude, leadership and management agility, and the ability to deliver and manage issues and deadlines with teams.
• Outstanding leadership and role model behaviours and ability to motivate and lead teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive healthcare agency experience as a Scientific Director, Scientific Team Lead and senior/principal writer.
• A life sciences MSc, PhD or clinical qualification, and/or previous experience as a Medical Writer. A life sciences BSc will also be considered.
• A track record of scientific and editorial leadership for large/complex accounts.
• Leadership experience with writing teams, with a focus on growth and capability expansion.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, high emotional intelligence, the ability to adapt to client and team needs, and the ability to respond rapidly to situations and manage internal/external issues.
• A track record of driving business growth and providing scientific insight to proposals and pitches.
• Excellent understanding of pharmaceutical regulations and medical writing standards (e.g., ABPI, GPP3, ICMJE).

Required Skills

• Enthusiastic and motivated leader.
• Driven by both people and business growth.
• Client image and style awareness.
• Planning resources and time efficiently to keep to timelines.
• Ability to work on your own initiative and proactively bring new ideas to evolve the discipline.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Writing/Editing

Industries

• Advertising Services