Medical Copywriter

BRAND: Digitas Health
Job Function: Health & Wellness
Location: London, United Kingdom
Experience Level: Intermediate
Workplace Type: Hybrid

Company description

Digitas Health is the modern creative agency that takes on the biggest moments in healthcare, raises the standard of creative, and connects people, partners, and ideas to create work that earns its place in culture. Purpose-built for today's complex and evolving landscape, we partner with some of the world's largest healthcare brands to do big things by moving faster, connecting deeper, and unlocking new possibilities at the intersection of creativity, data, technology, and empathy. Guided by our purpose, Connected for Good, and fueled by a vibrant, magnetic culture-we deliver meaningful work that drives relevance, changes behavior, and creates lasting impact, always grounded in humanity, not just technology. As part of Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe, we bring together entrepreneurial energy with the scale, stability, and depth of one of the world's leading communications networks.

At Digitas Health, what sets us apart isn't just who we work with, it's how we work and how it feels to be here. Our culture attracts curious, driven people who want to make a difference and be part of something bigger. Our teams are intentionally crafted across disciplines, perspectives, and experience levels, bringing strategy, creativity, data, and technology together from the start. We believe the best ideas come from curiosity, collaboration, and healthy debate and we expect people here to be thoughtful, engaged, and eager to shape what's next. If you're energized by complexity, motivated by impact, and excited to help redefine how healthcare connects with people, we'd love to meet you!

Overview

As a Medical Copywriter at DH London, you'll be responsible for helping your clients and colleagues to navigate the maze of scientific language to find the compelling human truths at the centre. What does that look like? In this role you will be called on to pick apart a scientific paper, and to translate data and academia-speak for a range of audiences. Then, once you've turned the science into story, you'll be able to reference it solidly enough to survive contact with even the strictest medical review. You know enough to be capable of assessing your own work to ensure you're not overstepping the legal and regulatory bounds of pharma.

Responsibilities

• Interpret scientific data relating to a product or its competitor and translate this information into real-world benefits in the context of a branded campaign strategy or messaging
• Create channel-, message- and tone-appropriate copy for all audiences and media types, from conception to completion
• Comfortably write copy of all lengths, from single-line tweets to long-copy articles
• Engage with clients from marketing, medical and compliance backgrounds
• Have a sense of the client's strategy, and be able to evaluate work for its suitability to address a business or communications need
• Facilitate communication across the teams to achieve the required end product for the client

Qualifications

• A degree in life sciences
• Proven experience as a medical writer/copywriter
• An understanding of the ABPI code of practice
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Oncology experience is highly advantageous

Additional information

Digitas Health offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You'll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:

Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).

Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.

At Digitas Health , we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.

We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We'll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.

Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.