Scientific Project Lead

Summary

Join Avalere Health's medical writing team as a leader, overseeing multiple writers and accounts. You will deliver high-quality medical communications, guide scientific teams, and serve as the primary client contact for scientific matters. Responsibilities include project oversight, mentoring junior writers, and fostering strong client relationships. The ideal candidate possesses a life sciences degree (PharmD or PhD preferred), significant medical writing experience, and proven leadership skills. Avalere Health offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits including a generous pension plan, private medical insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program, along with flexible working practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in the Life Sciences
• Strong background in scientific content development across various project types
• Proven ability to provide leadership and mentoring to junior writers
• Experience managing client relationships and serving as a key point of contact
• Familiarity with compliance and regulatory guidelines for medical communications

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality material with a mix of hands-on delivery of specific projects and reviewing/oversight role across other projects and is capable of working across a variety of project types including publications and medical affairs
• Guide the scientific team on day to day tasks and is responsible for the accurate, high-quality, and timely execution of all scientific aspects of projects within a workstream
• Provide scientific oversight for assigned large/complex projects or a workstream, briefing, reviewing, and providing guidance and direction to less experienced writers in account team
• Be the client's day to day scientific contact, ensuring that all project-related discussions related to scientific matters are communicated effectively to the team and more widely to other AZ scientific indication leads as appropriate
• Foster excellent client relationships through trusted delivery of projects
• Collaborate with other functions including project management, client services and editorial within the workstream to ensure the overall well-being and efficiency of the scientific team, helping team members prioritize workload and tasks to deliver successfully

Preferred Qualifications

• PharmD or PhD
• 4 + years of medical writing experience, either achieved in an agency environment or in-house

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
• Location: UK, hybrid or remote
• Generous company pension/retirement plan
• Private medical insurance
• Comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives
• Compelling time-off policy
• Many other excellent employee benefits