Senior Editor - Medical communications

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inScience Communications has over 30 years' experience in providing strategic and tactical medical communications services to the global pharmaceutical industry. Working in partnership with our valued clients, we deliver the highest quality of service and ethical content by drawing on the extensive talent and experience of our global team. We pride ourselves on ensuring each individual has the ability to contribute to our continuing expansion, providing the opportunity to progress their career and make a real difference to this dynamic agency.

Senior Editor - Medical communications (inScience Communications)

Locations: London, Chester or Manchester

Closing date: 3rd July 2023

inScience Communications is a full service medical communications agency forming part of Springer Healthcare, a leading publisher of medical educational products for the healthcare community.

As a Senior Editor you'll work closely with team members to produce high quality scientific content of medical communications that satisfy client needs.

You will be responsible for reviewing, copyediting and proofreading a wide range of scientific documents and materials for use in medical communications projects, with a focus on accuracy and clarity. You will also manage the company style guide and consult with account teams on specific style questions.

Responsibilities

• Review and edit content, including manuscripts, reports, abstracts, presentations, posters, digital content and other medical communications deliverables
• Check for grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors, and make necessary corrections
• Suggest changes to improve the clarity and flow of content
• Proof-reading of content
• Ensure that the content adheres to appropriate style and tone
• Review artworked graphs and figures for accuracy and adherence to appropriate style
• Ensure consistency is maintained both within and between projects according to style guides
• Verify facts and figures in the content against marked-up references to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Create highlighted and mark-up reference packs. Work with Veeva Vaults PromoMats and other digital platforms to manage the copy approval process
• Develop and maintain house style guides
• Work closely with other team members, including writers, designers, typesetters, and client services personnel
• Meet deadlines and work efficiently under pressure
• Participate in internal meetings to provide input from an editor's perspective
• Provide insight into project timelines
• Manage time effectively to deliver projects to a high quality, on time and within budget, highlighting potential delays to the appropriate team members

Experience, skills and qualifications

Experience

• Extensive experience as a copyeditor/proofreader within medical publishing/communication agencies or pharma

Skills

• Editing Skills: A strong command of grammar, spelling, and punctuation, as well as the ability to revise and improve written content to ensure clarity and coherence
• Attention to Detail: The ability to identify and correct errors, inconsistencies, and inaccuracies, and to ensure that content adheres to established style guides and tone
• Fact-Checking: The ability to verify facts and figures in the content to ensure accuracy
• Adaptability: The ability to work on a variety of projects, styles, and subjects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience and confident in interacting with other team members
• A proactive and flexible team player with a collaborative approach
• Proven organisation/time management skills
• Ability to manage internal processes
• Highly computer literate with good working knowledge of common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly

Qualifications

Desirable:

• Batchelors degree

To apply: please include a CV and covering letter outlining your interest in the role as well as your salary expectations.

All employees are working remotely but will be required to work in the office, once when offices reopen in line with company working from home policy.

Springer Nature is a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to submit your application in an alternative format or speak to a member of our Resourcing Team please contact us via SpringerNatureUKCareers@springernature.com or phone +442070144089.

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