Job Title: Junior Science Communicator / Junior Medical Writer
Location: South Bank, London
Salary: £32,604 – £46,000 per year
Job type: Full time, Permanent
The Company:
Enzyme Communications is a specialist science communication agency. We exist to tell stories about the cutting-edge science that is changing the world around us. We are a small agency with a challenger mindset. We are always pushing to do things differently. As a small agency, we are looking for people who are ambitious, driven, and comfortable with individual responsibility. We aim to cultivate an environment that is supportive and passionate. We are progressive in our approach to the way we work – with opportunities for flexible and remote working.
If you are smart, curious, ambitious, and want to work on projects founded on cutting edge science, you could be the person we are looking for.
Role Summary:
Enzyme Communications is looking for an up-and-coming Junior Science Communicator (trainee medical writer) to join our team. This is a fulltime role, perfect for someone looking to begin their career in science communication.
The successful candidate will have undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in relevant areas, with a clear focus on the science communication industry. This role includes understanding complex and detailed therapy areas, working across omnichannel deliverables and regularly interacting with clients. To succeed in the role, you must enjoy being creatively and intellectually challenged, be comfortable with pace and working in a high-performance team, as well as being a confident and capable presenter.
Core Responsibilities:
- Supporting the Science Communicator (line manager) in your team
- Supporting the development of high-quality and accurate medical and scientific content with ability to adapt style and approach across multiple audiences and channels
- Accurately capturing feedback from both internal and external stakeholders, and applying this feedback to work
- Managing content through client review processes and platforms, e.g., Veeva PromoMats
- Regular interactions with clients (in partnership with Account Management staff)
- Contributing to strategic planning activities, and the beginning to understand commercial and brand strategy
- Work with the creative and accounts teams to create ‘consumability from complexity’ and contribute to accuracy and quality of content and story flows
Required Skills/Experience:
Candidates must have the following skills and experience;
- Post-graduate qualification(s) in biomedical sciences or similar
- Be self-motivated, passionate and a good communicator
The Perks:
At Enzyme Communications, we pride ourselves on taking care of our team as well as being a socially responsible business. We do the following to live up to this:
- Bonus scheme: All team members are eligible for a 10% annual bonus based on individual and shared performance
- Flexible working: We operate a flexible working policy that applies to all team members who have passed probation. This includes kitting out home offices
- Charity support: We donate 10% of company profit to charity each year. We create opportunities for team members to volunteer with the charities we support and see the impact of our support
- Value based culture: We use our values to constantly challenge ourselves to create and sustain a positive work culture in which we can all thrive:
- Be Free – Be free to think differently and challenge the way things are done
- Be Curious – Be curious about everything
- Be Brave – Be brave enough to speak your mind
- Be You – Be you and be authentic to yourself and others
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Work from home
- Every team member has 4 ‘remote weeks’ to take each year
Enzyme Communications is an Equal Opportunity Employers. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.
Candidates with experience of; Gradate Medical Writer, Junior Medical Writer, Graduate Science Communicator, Junior Science Comms, Graduate Science Comms may also be considered for this role.
