Senior Medical Writer

Red Nucleus is hiring a Senior Medical Writer to join our EMEA team! This role is based out of our London, UK office, where you would work 3 days per week. We are ideally looking for a candidate with experience in cardiometabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and liver disease, and/or rare diseases. Experience in oncology is also desirable.

Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic learning and development, scientific advisory services, and medical communication solutions for the life sciences industry. Our global team is composed of nearly 700 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivalled in our space.

At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engage our employees to be their best selves. Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community and fun. We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been internationally recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’.    

How you will contribute

The projects we work on are diverse, spanning from pre-launch to post-launch positions of drug brand life cycles from both a medical and commercial perspective, and for multiple audiences, from external healthcare providers to sales representatives and medical science liaisons. The materials we produce focus on scientific and product knowledge, as well as the skills needed to communicate this to healthcare providers.

Deliverables can range from full launch curricula to individual medical education assets, such as:

·       Interactive e-learning programs

·       Core medical narratives

·       Print modules and infographics

·       Workshop design and development

·       Videos and podcasts

·       Medical/scientific narratives

·       Speaker slide decks

·       Congress symposia presentations

·       Ad board materials

·       KOL engagement tactics

As a Senior Medical Writer at Red Nucleus, you will:

• Partner with clients to understand their goals, objectives, and strategy;  recommend and help shape solid learning or medical education solutions that convey and reinforce the client’s goals for the target audience


• Research, learn, and distil complex scientific information and communicate it clearly to the target audience(s)


• Balance compelling and scientifically rigorous storytelling within regulatory frameworks and in alignment with client goals


• Collaborate with project/account managers, instructional designers, graphic artists, programmers, editors, and quality assurance specialists to ensure clients’ needs are met and the end product is accurate and of high quality


• Ensure high quality and accurate materials are produced by the medical writing team through reviews, appropriate training and championing internal processes


• Review the work of other writers for flow, scientific accuracy and meeting clients’ briefs


• Mentor junior writers of the content team

About you

• A passion for education, learning and science communication, with an interest in digital solutions


• Broad scientific knowledge, with at least a BSc, if not a higher scientific degree


• The ability to get up to speed with a new disease area quickly


• 3+ years' experience in the medical communications and/or pharmaceutical industry, developing content for promotional, disease awareness and/or training programmes


• Creativity and curiosity to create engaging narratives, innovative educational solutions, and to solve project-based challenges


• Experience of mentoring medical writers


• An ambition to succeed by exceeding client expectations


• Ability to manage and enjoy the challenge of interweaving multiple and changing projects, tasks and priorities within a deadline-oriented, fast-paced environment


• Ability to thrive in a team environment


• Capacity to positively accept and implement constructive feedback from internal and external sources


• Ability to conduct necessary research and to reference materials according to AMA or equivalent UK formats

Instructional design, teaching or training experience would be an advantage but not a necessity to succeed in this role.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit.

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