Job description
About Avalere Health
Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.
Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.
We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.
We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you’d like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.
About the role
As Copywriter, you will develop content for pharmaceutical brand communications for healthcare professionals and patients. You will be directly involved in the day-to day writing of projects and materials. This will entail initiating manuscripts and revising them to address internal team feedback as well as client marketing and regulatory teams’ feedback. You will be responsible for annotating and referencing the work that is based primarily on scientific and medical information. Your writing skills must be able to strike the appropriate tone and voice for specific audiences. Being detail-oriented and able to implement consistent across several projects and mediums is required. Time management, organizational skills, and the ability to multi-task individually and within an integrated team approach is necessary. You will be a member of the Creative Team, participating in concepting, brainstorming, and idea generating based on strategic goals for the brand, and will be presenting your work. You will play an integral role on the team in the ongoing development of content creation.
What you’ll do
- Write manuscripts based on project briefs across multiple media platforms and for various audiences.
- Manage content throughout the life of projects.
- Rely on your strong grammar skills and knowledge of AMA style
- Collaborate with art directors’ writers, and editors as well as other team members
- Use communication skills, including presenting skills
- Annotate manuscripts with accuracy to support claims in references
- Review and address team and client feedback
- Work within an established process, able to multi-task on various projects at various stages, using your detail-oriented skills
- Be on top of project deadlines
- Continue to grow and learn individually and with team
- Be highly motivated in finding creative solutions, helping the team meet its goals, and wanting to help HCPs and patients via the compelling healthcare communications you create
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Advertising or related field from a four-year college or university or 2+ years of related work experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience required
- Pharmaceutical/healthcare copywriting experience required
- Portfolio/samples required (include a link to this in your resume)
- Advertising agency or similar in-house marketing environment experience preferred
- Writing experience in several forms of media required
- Comfortable working under pressure within tight deadlines
$70,000 - $90,000 a year
We are committed to offering a competitive and fair salary that reflects your location, qualifications and the experience you will bring to our team. Salary ranges posted are depending on experience (DOE).
What we can offer
Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.
At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.
We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.
We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.
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