emotive is a global healthcare communications agency who partner with health-focused companies across medical & scientific affairs, brand & patient engagement and PR & advocacy. Our commitment to our core values of IMAGINATION, COLLABORATION, EMPOWERMENT, INTEGRITY and AGILITY is what sets us apart and helps us drive significant change within the world of healthcare.

We started on our journey 15 years ago, determined to transform lives and inspire positive change that has a real impact on people’s health. Fast forward to today and emotive has become a leading healthcare communications agency with a reputation for excellence. With remarkable growth, we now have significant expertise in multiple therapy areas, rare diseases, and advanced therapies. We continue to inspire change every day by driving advocacy and the uptake of life-changing products, brands and services and we are doing so with unmatched passion, dedication, and commitment to towards significantly improving people’s lives.

Our team consists of the very best scientific, creative and digital minds, all with huge experience in medical, marketing, technology, public relations and advocacy to provide leading healthcare communications support to all our client partnerships. We are also immensely proud of our pro-bono work with Medics4RareDiseases (M4RD), where we provide commercial, creative, and strategic expertise to support their mission of raising awareness of rare diseases within the medical curriculum and profession. This is a cause we care deeply about, with 50% of our medical communications work focused on rare diseases.

At emotive we are proud of our work, and we believe that our most valuable asset is our team members. We seek to hire extraordinary talent in those who share our core values and are committed to succeeding, delivering, and growing. If you are looking for a rewarding career with a team that is making a real difference in the world of healthcare, look no further than joining the emotive family and becoming a part of an extraordinary effort to transform the lives of patients!

ROLE

Working under the supervision of a Principal Medical Writer, you will be part of a dedicated ‘POD’ resource team of Client Services and Medical Writers who together are responsible for agile working for a defined cluster of our Global and UK clients across Rare Diseases, Oncology, Retina, Virology, Renal and Neurology including Advanced Gene & Cell Therapies.

You will be asked to develop engaging and accurately referenced copy on a wide range of medical affairs, patient, med ed and commercial/brand materials. Working with your colleagues and alongside our senior Medical and Brand strategists and our shared Creative and Technology services, you will have an active opportunity to provide scientific input into pitches and RfP responses with both new and existing clients. As part of this highly autonomous ‘POD’ team and within a broader collaborative agency environment, you will have a direct and visible impact on the work we are doing and also a key voice in all major decision making.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Research, craft and write engaging, accurate and fully referenced copy for POD clients.
• Develop copy for a range of different media including both traditional forms such as slide decks, posters and meetings materials as well as for digital applications, web-based projects and film/animation storyboards.
• Become an in-house therapy area expert within at least one disease area.
• Add value in the development and delivery of proposals for new business and with existing POD clients.
• Attend client and thought-leader/KOL/faculty meetings and video conferences, participating on the content discussions where required
• Work collaboratively work with the creative and technology shared services teams to produce high-quality medical communications

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• A minimum of 1 years’ experience as a medical writer with experience within a medical communications setting, either within an agency, client or clinical environment
• Educated to MSc or PhD in life sciences or related subject
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to work simultaneously on more than one project
• Creative thinking with the ability to provide input into realistic scientific communication concepts for projects which deliver on client’s objectives
• The skills to write accurately and creatively in a dynamic and collaborative agency environment
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients.

OUR REWARDS

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + 3 days off for Christmas + Birthday Day off
• Early Finish Fridays – Office closes at 3pm on a Friday (May-August Inclusive)
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity policies
• 6 weeks paid sabbatical after 5 years’ service
• Subsidised gym membership
• Private medical insurance
• Pension (up to 7% matching employee/employer contribution)
• Annual personal learning budget
• Perkbox and Perkbox Medical
• Support and well-being services

We look forward to hearing from you!