Principal Medical Writer (Part-time)

Overview

We are looking to hire a Principal Medical Writer to join our award-winning Clinical Trial Experience (CTE) discipline here at Langland. This role is part-time, 22.5 hours per week, ideally split across 5 days. Working as a Principal Medical Writer, you will deliver compelling, high-quality materials for sites and referral networks to support the smooth-running of clinical trials, as well as ideate novel and engaging meeting formats to activate sites, gather insights, and workshop potential challenges. More holistically, you will play a key role in building our site engagement capability by inputting into new business proposals and identifying organic growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for the day-to-day delivery of assigned projects
• Take the lead as content expert for assigned projects
• Provide thorough review of the work from junior or freelance writers to ensure high-quality outputs
• Provide scientific and strategic counsel to clients and internal teams
• Establish strong relationships with client teams
• Identify and explore organic growth and new business opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience within a medical communications agency or pharma comms team
• Able to understand and communicate complex science (you should hold a bachelor’s degree in the life sciences)
• Inquisitive, proactive, and motivated to deliver solutions
• Experience creating a range of HCP-facing materials
• Experience in a variety of therapy areas
• Proven expertise in upskilling on new therapy areas, interpreting and communicating complex science in short timeframes
• Responsible for maintaining high editorial and scientific standards
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong relationships internally and externally

Additional Information

Langland has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees, full details of which are shared when you join. This includes the classics like Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical, as well as Reflection Days, Shared Parental Leave, and spans initiatives:

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).

At Langland, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

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