Salary: £Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover etc.)
Location: London (hybrid)
About the role
As a Senior Medical Copywriter at Pollen, you will be a trusted team member, both internally and externally, having built a strong relationship with your clients and their medical teams. You will become an insight-driven strategic member of the team, acting as scientific and editorial consultant to accounts and proactively driving your accounts forward by thinking “beyond the day job” to anticipate and analyse where the needs of clients align with market opportunities and wider products in the Hive Group offering.
About Fishawack Health
Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialisation partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,500+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our 4 core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy, Access, Value, Evidence; and Marketing.
Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.
We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We value difference. We play for the team. We own the challenge. We enjoy the journey. At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.
What you'll do:
Knowledge and skills
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Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the healthcare comms environment, including a deep understanding of the ways in which our clients work and the business problems they face
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Be a brand ambassador on key accounts:
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Source, manage and maintain complex bodies of evidence for your key brands and own the info within
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Contribute to brand strategy, regularly attending tactical team meeting
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Create appropriately tailored copy based on key insights across a range of material types (e.g. web copy, visual aids, animations, etc.) and audience types (e.g. patients, tailored messaging based on customer segmentation)
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Adapt technical language into simple, audience-appropriate copy
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Ensure work is scientifically accurate and substantiated, maintaining up-to-date reference packs for each job worked on
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Confidently collaborate in creative teams on a wide range of projects and campaign elements, including corporate training, sales aids, patient education, digital applications, etc.
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Work with client medical team to get the most from core claims
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Be up to date on legislation and regulatory processes
Creativity
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Understand the function of the creative department and master the creative and copy operational processes
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Adapt various types of technical language into audience-appropriate copy
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Passionate about bringing narrative excellence to health comms
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Proven high-level creative thinker with a strong conceptual track record
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Work with others to develop your creative ideas; take a leading role on creative campaigns
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Stay close to the evolving edge of print, digital and experiential communication, taking inspiration from industry award winners and the world at large
Consultancy
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Provide scientific consultancy inside and outside the agency: attend client meetings confidently vocalising your thoughts
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Observe and act on current trends and research in your therapy area/s, share your knowledge widely
Quality
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Reliably produce high quality, on-brief work that solves client’s business problems in outstanding and original ways
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Help to drive high quality writing across the department: provide constructive feedback to other writers wherever possible, ensuring this feedback is understood and implemented
Innovation/new business
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Be a key creative contributor on client proposals/new business; establish a stable of successful pitch wins
About you:
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Minimum 3 years' experience in a medical writing role within a recognised medical communications/healthcare advertising agency
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Bachelor’s life sciences degree required; post-graduate qualification e.g., MSc or PhD an advantage
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Excellent written English, with strong attention to detail and accuracy
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Experience translating medical content into promotional brand campaign messaging and communications
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Desire to expand your creative interest and work in a hybrid medical writing and creative copy role
What we can offer
Fishawack Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.
At the centre of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalised learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.
We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organisation to encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behaviour, and innovative solutions. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.
We have offices in 19 city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socialising, and coming together as a global organisation while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.
Reasonable adjustments
Fishawack Health is an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in our differences and only by embracing these differences can we build a healthier world together. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
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