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Principal Medical Writer

Cpl Healthcare

London

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GBP 125,000 - 150,000

27 days ago

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Join a forward-thinking medical communications organization as a Principal Medical Writer, where your expertise will drive impactful content creation across various deliverables. In this dynamic role, you will lead a talented team, manage client projects, and engage with key opinion leaders to ensure the highest quality of materials. With a focus on cardiovascular and diabetes therapy areas, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence the medical narrative while fostering business growth. If you are passionate about medical writing and ready to take on a leadership role, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

5+ years of medical writing experience in a communications agency.
Experience in line management and mentoring writing teams.

Lead and manage a team of writers, ensuring quality and adherence to timelines.
Identify new business opportunities and present ideas to clients.

Medical Writing

Line Management

Business Development

Collaboration with KOLs

Principal Medical Writer

Location: London

Contract: Perm or Contract Options available

Therapy Area Focus: Cardiovascular and Diabetes

Company: Independently-owned medical communications organisation.

As a Principal Medical Writer, you will still have hands-on content creation responsibilities and will work across deliverables ranging from advisory boards through to slide decks, manuscripts, websites, and other medical education materials.

In addition, you will have a varied role which will also include responsibility for:

Line management: Direct leadership and management for a team of Writers; reviewing all materials produced by the team.
Project leadership: Managing and leading all client projects, ensuring that projects are delivered to the highest quality and that briefs and timelines are adhered to.
Business development: Identifying new business opportunities with both new and existing clients; presenting new business ideas to clients.
KOL liaison: Collaborating with KOLs and HCPs as required on material production; signing off all materials for production.

Requirements for the role:

At least 5 years of medical writing experience gained from working in a medical communications agency.
Line management, mentoring, and coaching experience – of a writing team.
Experience of new business development – ideally with experience of pitching to clients too.
Knowledge and/or experience of Cardiovascular and Diabetes – this is desirable.

Applications and further information:

Contact Mark Bathe or Natalie Robson via email on mark.bathe@cpl.com or natalie.robson@cpl.com or submit your application via this advertisement – please also include a copy of your CV where possible.

Note: If you do not hold the required skills and experience, unfortunately, your application will not be successful at this time.

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