What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?
Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.
Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.
Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.
Our role :
You will have a high level of autonomy and will produce appropriately formatted copy which is suitable for use across a range of media. You will work collaboratively with internal teams to add significant value - applying the benefit of your experience to guide projects, ensuring any copy produced by you and your team is appropriate to the brief and of a high quality.
What you can expect to be doing:
1. You will work with the Accounts team to front client relations as appropriate, ensuring the Copy function is always represented appropriately. You will be proactive in identifying opportunities to drive new business activity.
2. You will also mentor team members and take overall responsibility for their involvement, actively progressing their abilities and developing them for greater responsibility.
3. Input to the development of strategy, advising on all scientific elements to ensure a response that is appropriate to the needs of the target audience, enhancing credibility
4. Be instrumental in tracking award-winning work and trends, pushing craft to enhance the effectiveness of the work we produce
5. Take the scientific lead in client meetings, workshops and internal discussions in relations to communications strategy around a range of therapy areas
6. Draw on knowledge to ensure accuracy and appropriateness in tactical project elements as they are produced. Evaluate and approve materials ensuring that scientific content is accurate and compliant
7. Produce and edit copy into the correct format for use across various media as appropriate, drawing on your experience to consider the suitability of UX and project flow
8. Understand the clients’ needs both now and, in the future, and develop an offering to suit this
9. Continually develop your writing style, honing approach, and ability to tailor copy tone, enabling effective communication with a range of audiences
10. Take the lead on client brand activity, be the ‘go-to’ writer across a number of clients and therapy areas
11. Understand the requirements of other teams in terms of how copy should be best delivered – proactively seek to improve process wherever possible
12. Support the development of new business through involvement in proposals, workshops, and pitches. Acting as lead for the copy team, contribute to the development of pitch activity, and conduct pitch presentations as part of a team to support new business activity
13. Ensure work is completed to a high standard and within the agreed timescale.
14. Managing others and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
What we’d like to see from you:
15. 7 + years experience as a Medical writer in an agency setting ideally across creative medical writing
16. Experience working with global pharmaceutical companies and creative brief's
17. Experience working directly with clients
18. A solid scientific background and experience working on a number of therapeutic areas
19. Learning and understanding new therapy areas quickly and comprehensively, inspiring confidence with the client
20. Proven experience leading and developing a team of medical writers
21. Understanding of clinical research, drug development process, and industry guidelines and regulations
What you can expect from us
A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.
You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:
22. Hybrid Working
23. Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service
24. Option to buy, carry or sell holidays
25. Early Friday finish throughout the year
26. Seasonal working hours
27. Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme
28. Extensive L&D support
29. Sabbatical opportunities
30. Season ticket interest free loans for travel
31. Cycle to work scheme
32. Life insurance (4x salary)
33. Company pension scheme
34. Fully compensated company events
35. Volunteer days
36. Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more
37. +Medicash healthcare benefit
38. 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme