Medical Writer Full Time

Summary:

• Inizio Medical has built a large team of medical writers in South Africa, becoming the leading medical communications company in Africa.
• We are recruiting for a new intake of medical writers who will start with us in March 2025.
• Our teams in South Africa work alongside our global teams (based in the US, UK, South Africa, and EU) in our three med comms agencies: ApotheCom, Nucleus Global, and Ashfield MedComms.
• This will give you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge science with world-leading experts in a variety of therapy areas and help deliver impactful results for the healthcare community.
• To give you the best start in your med comms career, you will receive industry-leading, award-winning training through our allegro.WRITE training programme. During your first six weeks with the company, a dedicated team of experts will provide training and individual mentoring focused on developing writing skills, project management, teamwork, and networking, allowing you to build confidence and ability.
• Combining complex scientific understanding with creativity, Inizio Medical develops impactful medical affairs strategies and compelling communications.
• Underpinned by world-class medical analytics capabilities and applied AI tools, Inizio Medical redefines the role of medical affairs in drug development and commercialization.

Responsibilities:

• Researching and developing technical medical material.
• Ensuring that all outputs adhere to the written brief, are accurate in content and editorial style, and can be referenced.
• Liaising with clients and medical experts on content development.
• Attending scientific and client meetings where output is required.

Requirements:

• An advanced degree in a biomedical subject.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate excellent and versatile scientific writing and editing ability.
• Experience of writing scientific publications and conference presentations.
• Ability to generate materials to a high standard and quality, with minimal internal review/assistance.
• Excellent project-management and organisational skills.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and resourcefulness.
• Good time management skills.
• Judgment and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent quality control skills and meticulous eye for detail – style/consistency, grammar, scientific accuracy, proofreading, layout, etc.
• Ability to ensure all writing meets the client’s strategic marketing objectives, as well as being of high scientific quality/credibility.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical and health-related issues.
• Strong sense of responsibility and urgency; ability to take ownership of projects.
• Ability to work independently under limited supervision.
• Solid understanding of human pathophysiology and disease; ability to learn new and diverse subject areas quickly.
• Ability to work within a team and form productive working relationships within, and external to, Huntsworth Health.
• Strong client-centric attitude – ability to work with clients on projects, ensuring they meet strategic marketing and medical needs.
• Flexibility and ability to manage simultaneous priorities, changing deadlines, and limited resources.
• IT skills – Word, PowerPoint, internet searching.

Benefits:

• Industry-leading, award-winning training through our allegro.WRITE training programme.
• A diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace culture.

Tagged as: Editing, Medical Writing, Project Management, Scientific Writing