Senior Medical Editor, Medical Education

About Ogilvy Health

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of Ogilvy’s capabilities and global talent—Ogilvy Health brings forth world-class creative solutions for its clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Agency Network of the Year (Ad Age)


• Global Agency of the Year (Adweek)


• One of the "Best Places to Work" for LGBTQ+ equality (Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index)


• Most Effective Agency Network (Effie Worldwide)


• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)


• Network of the Year (One Show)


• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)


• Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader


• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)


• …and Ogilvy was the first agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100 in consecutive years

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About the Role 

We are seeking a highly meticulous and experienced Senior Medical Editor to join our team. The Senior Medical Editor plays a pivotal role in ensuring the scientific accuracy, clinical integrity, regulatory compliance, and editorial quality of all educational materials developed for our pharmaceutical clients.

Working closely with Medical Writers, Account Teams, Art Directors, and Regulatory Ops, you will be the guardian of editorial excellence, meticulously reviewing content from initiation through final output. This role requires digital editing skills and proficiency in Microsft office and Ziflow, and an understanding of medical terminology, therapeutic areas, regulatory guidelines (e.g., FDA, PhRMA), and pharmaceutical marketing best practices.

What You'll Do

• Perform comprehensive edits, proofreads, and quality control checks on a wide range of educational materials, including slide decks edited live in PowerPoint.


• Ensure impeccable grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, and adherence to house style guides, client-specific style guides, and the AMA Manual of Style.


• Review for clarity, conciseness, consistency, flow, and appropriate tone/voice for target audiences


• Fact-check all medical and scientific claims against primary source documents (e.g., clinical trial reports, journal articles, prescribing information, internal data).


• Identify and resolve any inconsistencies, ambiguities, or potential misrepresentations in content.


• Verify the accuracy and proper formatting of all references, ensuring claims are appropriately linked to source documents.


• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Medical Writers, Art Directors, Account Managers, Project Managers, and Regulatory Affairs


• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment.


• Communicate clearly and effectively regarding project status, potential issues, and solutions.

What You'll Need

• 5-7+ years of dedicated medical editing experience, with a significant portion gained within a pharmaceutical advertising agency, medical communications agency, or pharmaceutical company.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Adobe Acrobat (for PDF annotation).

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates. 

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