Job Title: Medical Writer / Science Communicator
Location: London
Salary: £44,000 – £51,000 per annum + 10% company bonus
Job type: Full time, hybrid working (part remote, part in office)
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.
The Role
Enzyme Communications is looking for an experienced and motivated Science Communicator (medical writer) to join our team. This is a full time role, perfect for someone looking for a new challenge.
The successful candidate will have detailed and demonstrable experience of working in an agency environment and servicing healthcare and biotechnology clients. 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:
- Regular interactions with clients (in partnership with Account Management staff)
- Development of high-quality and accurate medical and scientific content with ability to adapt style and approach across multiple audiences and channels
- Development of strategies to meet communications objectives for a wide variety of audiences
- Work with the creative and accounts teams to create ‘consumability from complexity’ with ultimate responsibility for accuracy and quality of content and story flows
Key Requirements:
Candidates must have the following skills and experience:
- A minimum of three years’ experience in an agency environment, for example as a planner or medical writer
- Post-graduate qualification(s) in biomedical sciences or similar
- Excellent data communication skills
- Experience interacting with clients
- Be self-motivated, passionate and a good communicator
- Detailed proficiency with ABPI or other international codes of conduct
Candidates with the following additional skills and experience will be viewed favorably:
- Management experience
- Pitch experience
- Experience working with/within healthcare or biotechnology company
- Experience presenting and running workshops and meetings
Benefits:
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
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 and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; medical writer, content writer, writer, life science, science communicator, account manager, account writer, will also be considered for this role.
