Lead Medical Copywriter / Scientific Project Lead - Medical Communications

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity,  SenseMaking allows us to  transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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Location: Remote and/or hybrid, US (East Coast preferred)

About the role

We are looking for a strong medical writer with copywriting skills & experience, who can apply excitement and flair to their communications, and join us in working on a broad range of commercially-oriented medical projects.  

Our clients’ work covers a spectrum of scientific and promotional claims, so you need to have depth and breadth of scientific understanding, alongside your writing expertise, for a range of audiences and within multiple media. You need to have comfort in interpreting scientific data and vision for its application in crafting effective, easily digestible narratives and content blended with creative story telling. You will need to be familiar with leveraging brand and communication strategies within medical communications content. 

Bringing this range of skills to the table, you will help us produce scientifically and medically sound, strategic, bold, and persuasive messages that feed into a broader, overarching strategic approach for a range of clients and therapy areas. Experience and interest across oncology, as well as neurology, hepatitis C, and immunology is also preferred.   

At Avalere Health, you will ensure all work is medically accurate and creatively on point, whilst delivering on time and within budget. You will get the opportunity to know your clients’ processes, grow to take brand ownership, and develop expertise within your therapy area. You’ll be working closely with other Avalere Health medical team members and commercial/creative colleagues in a truly integrated team – we make it a priority to nurture a collaborative environment that sparks ideas, encourages continuous learning and growth, while delivering world-class work for clients, in service of patients. This role really does have a hybrid nature to it, and comes with the opportunity to grow and develop a plethora of skills, making this a new and exciting experience that goes beyond the “traditional” medical writing role. 

• Lead both medical writing & medical copywriting projects for promotional medical communications & high science commercial marketing deliverables – developing promotional or scientific copy for use across multiple media. 
• Partner with creative directors on conceptual themes/campaign creatives as needed. 
• Provide a point of contact with clients, proactively driving conversations and leading on content strategy.  
• Ensure on-brand messaging and accurate content that aligns with the overall strategy. 
• Collaborate with art directors, production, and digital/motion teams on projects; work with senior writers to develop scientific content across your portfolio of writing projects. 
• Deliver presentations to creative and medical teams whenever needed. 
• Reference and annotate all work, in accordance with client review procedures.

• Your background could be medical communications, or healthcare advertising/marketing. We are looking for 3+ years of experience in either sector.  
• You will have worked on a range of medical communications projects – which could include congress work, creative and copy design and co-creation of content. You will be used to producing print and digital tactics such as sales aids, brochures, eblasts, digital banners, websites & presentation decks.  
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a scientific (or equivalent) area of study essential; post-graduate research experience an advantage to ensure strong scientific grounding.  
• Strong client service skills with a commitment to superior quality. 
• Self-motivated, professional, detail-oriented, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills. 
• Comfortable working under pressure within tight deadlines. 
• Advanced PC or Mac experience with MS Office Suite and functional experience with Adobe Acrobat Pro.  

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. 

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