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.

Nazaré is our leading Learning & Capability brand (Part of Inizio Engage XD). We design and deliver impactful training experiences that drive real behaviour change and performance improvement for pharmaceutical and biotech organisations.

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

A bit about us...

Engage XD is an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. We partner with clients to provide employee engagement, learning and training solutions, scientific engagement and capability building, all underpinned by applied behavioural science. We engage internal and external audiences through the creation and delivery of live and virtual experiences, film, digital, and immersive content.

Our family of brands is made up of: Emota, Forty1 and Nazarѐ.

We believe in our values: We empower everyone | We rise to the challenge | We work as one | We ask what if | We do the right thing and we will ask you how your personal values align to our values

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This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.