Job Title: Principal Medical Writer, Medical Communications

Locations: Madrid, Hybrid

Organisation: Springer Health+

Full time, Permanent

About Springer Nature Group

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About Springer Health+ (Previously Springer Healthcare)

At Springer Health+, we help our partners turn scientific advancement into everyday clinical impact. We align evidence with real-world needs—starting not with what we do, but with who it’s for.

Every programme we support is grounded in deep understanding of healthcare professionals, of therapeutic complexity, and of how knowledge

truly drives outcomes.

About The Role

As a Principal Medical Writer, reporting to the General Manager Iberic, you will provide expert medical writing, subject matter expert support and preparing and/or reviewing high-quality scientific content in medical communications that satisfy client needs in terms of quality, commercial focus, timing and cost.

You will be central to developing and maintaining strong client relationships, principally by demonstrating therapy area and technical expertise, and ensuring that deliverables are of the highest quality. You will be required to drive writing and other Med Comms projects forwards from beginning to completion, provide strategic and tactical advice to clients as needed, demonstrate financial acumen with respect to driving revenue.

You will also contribute to initiatives designed to drive organic growth and develop new business, further strengthening partnerships with existing clients.

To find out more about us visit our website at https://springerhealthplus.com/

Responsibilities

Project work

Manage all aspects of tactical delivery of scientific content for a range of medical communications that meet client needs, internal quality standards and timelines:

• Demonstrate a high level of expertise in ≥2 therapy areas
• Lead content delivery on projects for one or more accounts and provide a point of contact on matters of scientific content for the client and external experts
• Provide full briefs to delegate editorial projects to colleagues Provide editorial quotes for costing purposes
• Advise other senior scientific services team members about editorial resource requirements
  
  

Review scientific content for a range of medical communications according to client needs, internal quality standards and agreed specifications, budgets and timeframes:

• Monitor quality, style and accuracy and provide timely, consistent and constructive feedback when reviewing
• Ensure that projects reflect a thorough understanding of clients’ medical/marketing objectives and that scientific messages are supported appropriately
• Liaise with clients and Client Services Team to agree specifications and check that client expectations are being met
  
  

Business Planning/commercial

Apply knowledge of the therapeutic use and strategic marketing of pharmaceuticals to account plans, strategic publication plans and strategic communication programmes Maintain broad awareness of developments in relevant therapeutic areas and regulatory framework, editorial issues and technological developments within publishing and medical communications, and the wider company’s product portfolio Provide scientific advice to relevant account teams on:

• Strategy and tactics
• New opportunities
• New therapy area developments
  
  

Provide strategic and tactical advice to clients on medical communications deliverables and market developments Provide editorial and medical-scientist advice to the management team (e.g. quality standards, training needs and resourcing) Provide support to the Business Development team on:

• Recommendations for organic growth within existing accounts
• Identification of new business opportunities
• Proposal development
• Pitch development and attendance
  
  

Financial

Monitor own adherence to budget and utilisation rate Work with client service colleagues to ensure that the team is also adhering to budget/utilisation. Regularly check-in with client services regarding the financial health of the account, including assessing project ‘burn rates’ and investigating reasoning for any overspend Record and monitor actual time spent on a project against budgeted time, and complete timesheets in an accurate and timely manner Contribute to revenue targets by ensuring that projects are progressed according to schedules

Organisational

Work closely with senior editorial and client service colleagues to ensure the whole account team is harmonious, functioning optimally and delivering to client needs with respect to quality, commercial focus, timing and cost Support team working principles and collaboration within the account team(s) and wider medical communications group, as well as other departments and business units within the company

Any Other Duties As Requested By Senior Management Teams

Travel requirements:

Travelling and attendance at client meetings, new business pitches, scientific congresses and Advisory Boards, on an ad hoc basis, as required.

Qualifications

Experience, skills and qualifications

Essential

• Life science degree
  
  

Desired

• Life science degree in pharmacy or medicine
• Higher degree
  
  

Experience:

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in a Med Comms Agency , clinical research organization or Pharmaceutical Company.
• Demonstrable experience of client liaison and interaction including client visits and on-site experience.
• Proven ability in all aspects of medical communication deliverables.
• Deep knowledge of medical publications processes in scientific journals (peer review, publishing ethics…)
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in developing or implementing learning programs, advisory boards, product launches, patient support programs, and HEOR initiatives.
  
  

Skills

Essential

• Proven medical writing experience in a medical communications agency, Clinical Research Organization or Pharmaceutical Company with reviewing experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience and confident in interacting with clients and medical experts
• A proactive and flexible team player with a collaborative approach
• People management with proven organisation/time management and leadership skills, with the ability to be proactive and use your initiative to get results
• Highly computer literate with good working knowledge of common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly
  
  

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