Senior Medical Writer

Overview

In this role you drive high-quality scientific content that translates complex evidence into clear, engaging material for diverse healthcare audiences. You will work within Song Life's cross-disciplinary team to shape narratives, ensure scientific rigor, and deliver consistent content across programmes. You’ll balance scientific exactness with creativity, using data and AI-enabled workflows to improve efficiency. This position offers the chance to grow into a trusted scientific advisor and contribute to work that helps improve patient outcomes. You’ll join a collaborative, innovative team that values curiosity and continuous learning.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days of leave per year
• volunteering days
• flexible work policies
• private healthcare
• Mental Wellbeing support
• Career Development and Counselling

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality scientific content across multiple therapeutic areas and channels
• Translate complex data into clear, accurate content meeting audience and client needs
• Own content workstreams with scientific excellence and consistent delivery
• Partner with clients and internal teams to shape content approaches for impact
• Act as a trusted scientific contributor within multidisciplinary teams
• Lead development of scientific narratives and content frameworks for consistency
• Apply critical thinking to evaluate evidence and ensure accuracy and balance
• Review and guide content produced by others to maintain quality
• Mentor and develop junior writers and editorial capability
• Contribute to editorial processes, quality standards, and ways of working
• Identify opportunities to improve content development through technology, automation and AI-enabled workflows
• Support scientific elements of new business opportunities, contributing to proposals
• Stay current with advances in science and healthcare communications to continually enhance work

Key requirements

• Significant medical communications, medical education or healthcare content development experience
• Strong understanding of scientific research, clinical data interpretation and evidence-based communication
• Experience developing scientific content for healthcare professionals and other stakeholders
• Excellent medical writing and editing skills with adaptable style and tone
• Supporting development of scientific narratives, platforms and educational programmes
• Working within pharmaceutical regulations, compliance frameworks and industry codes of practice
• Reviewing content for scientific accuracy, quality and consistency
• Collaborating effectively with account, strategy, creative, digital and client services teams
• Mentoring and developing junior scientific colleagues
• Using insight, evidence and audience understanding to strengthen content recommendations
• Experience managing multiple projects and competing priorities
• Curiosity about how AI and technology can enhance content creation, review and workflows
• Strong presentation and communication skills

• Collaboration
• Curiosity
• Effective communication
• Medical writing and editing
• Editorial governance and quality control
• Evidence-based science communication

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