Principal Medical Writer, Real-world

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Axon Communications Full time

PRINCIPAL MEDICAL WRITER

Team - Real-World practice Location - UK or US (in-office, hybrid, or remote working):

The role:


With strong growth year on year over the past 5 years, AXON's Real-World practice has an outstanding opportunity for a Principal Medical Writer to join its dynamic, friendly, international team.

Our industryleading flexible working policy means you could be fully office-based, in London or New York, a hybrid worker, or even fully remote.


This is a chance to work on a wide variety of written deliverables, meetings, and stakeholder engagement programmes, across a diverse range of therapy areas.

The team is at a particularly exciting stage in its growth and development at present, so there is tremendous potential for you to really make your mark.


Your responsibilities will include (but are not limited to):

  • The creation of a wide range of documents, such as study protocols, study reports, publications and publication summaries, slide decks, and newsletters
  • Involvement in the design & implementation of targeted and systematic literature reviews, as well as evidence reviews and gap analyses
  • Content development for a wide range of meetings and stakeholder engagement programmes, such as steering committee meetings, advisory boards, and standalone educational meetings
  • Successfully managing client relationships and providing effective counsel to clients and leading formal client meetings
  • Review of team members work for style, strategy, content accuracy and data checking
  • Mentoring, coaching and monitoring the longterm career development of staff
  • Involvement in the Shadow Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and input into shaping the business, its culture and processes
  • Identifying and capitalising on business opportunities, including supporting new business development efforts through research, proposal development and pitching
At AXON we also actively encourage you to be involved in activities outside of your day-to-day work.

Whether that's being involved in our social, marketing or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) electives, attending industry & networking events, or participating in our extensive training & development programme.

We have a keen focus on training and development and as a rough guide, suggest you aim to complete 37.5 hours of learning a year.

Whether that be through online learning, classroom training, or attending external events; that's one week a year dedicated to your development.


You will be:

  • A medical writer or healthcare communications consultant, with experience of working in an agency environment, either medical communications, realworld research, or market access
  • Interested in Real-World Evidence (RWE), value communications, and stakeholder engagement
  • Knowledgeable in a wide range of therapy areas, which will preferably include oncology, cardiovascular, and rare diseases, and able to get up to speed on new therapy areas quickly
  • Seeking to further your senior review and mentoring and coaching experience
  • An individual with flawless attention to detail and excellent quality control skills
  • Proactive in your approach to planning, developing, and reviewing written deliverables
  • A teamfocused proactive person with a drive to develop, as an individual, and within a team
  • From a strong scientific background, educated to a minimum degree level in life sciences (MSc/PhD advantageous)

Our benefits:

As well as the basic salary, great social events and a culture of continual learning, our competitive benefits package* includes:

  • 25 days' holiday (with the ability for it to rise to a maximum of 30 days alongside length of service)
  • in addition to bank holidays
  • 5% employer pension contribution
  • Private medical insurance (for you and your family)
  • Income protection insurance
  • Life Assurance service insurance at 4x your salary
  • Travel insurance (for you and your family)
  • An annual 'wellness' benefit of £150 after one year's service
Paid sabbaticals (at 50% basic salary) after 5 years' service

Who we are:

Our business is to ignite change in healthcare through the power of communication. This demands we find new ways of thinking and doing, every day.

As global healthcare communication specialists, we provide clients with advice on medical affairs, clinical studies, real-world evidence, marketing, advocacy, and communication.

Our vision is to be at the forefront of life-changing communication.


AXON Real-World is a fast-growing practice with extensive collaborations with other AXON practices and other agencies within the AVENIR-GLOBAL network.

We deliver insights-driven communications that harness real-world evidence to demonstrate value and help secure patient access to innovative therapies.

We collaborate with real-world evidence, medical affairs, HEOR and market access clients to inform, engage, and activate the right stakeholders.

By doing so, we shape the healthcare environment and improve patient

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