Editorial Lead

Overview:
**Editorial Lead**

**Location**:12 Bishop's Bridge Rd, Greater, London W2 6AA

**Reports To**:Senior Scientific Director

**About DDB Remedy**

We're a bunch of creative, Intelligent, friendly, Interesting, Interested, diverse and happy people (and dogs). Surprising and delighting our clients and ourselves is what gets us out of bed In the morning.

We have a simple belief — Unexpected Works. Meaning that the best idea is the one you that you could never see coming. And the only way to get there is through genuine creativity. The kind of creativity that scares and excites us at the same time because it’s so different. We even get goosebumps just thinking about it. This kind of work takes guts, luckily, we’ve got plenty of that here.

We’re one of the leading Healthcare Communications agencies and our goal is simple, to improve people’s health and wellbeing. We develop strategic solutions, create identities, produce beautiful content, and create experiences for HCPs, patients, salesforces, and consumers across multiple channels.

We’re proud of what we do, creating unexpected work that makes a difference.

**Our Commitment**

DDB Remedy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate individuality and diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment and a sense of belonging for all employees without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Everyone has the right to be themselves. That’s why we cherish 4 important ‘freedoms’, that protect our rights to be creative, to experiment, to be who we are and to feel included and safe at work. These inform our every word, every action and every result, every day. They are Freedom from fear, Freedom to fail, Freedom from Chaos and Freedom to be.

For us, inclusivity and diversity aren’t “nice-to-have” - they’re central to our business strategy. The more inclusive we are, the more people feel they can bring their whole selves to work, the better our work will be.

You are responsible for ensuring that all proofreading/QC/sub-editing & submission document uploads are performed to the highest standards. You live and breathe all things editorial, inspiring others to do so, setting and driving up DDB standards.

You ensure agency outputs remain error-free in terms of grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. And, that all work complies with client rules and relevant codes of practice. You create and champion client brand and house style guidelines, making sure editorial consistency is maintained across all healthcare communication materials. You ensure claims are accurately linked and data is correct for VEEVA and FUSE reference uploads, following company and brand SOP.

You lead a team of 2-4 talented medical editors/proofreaders/submission specialists, and ensure they receive the guidance, direction, and support they need to realise their full potential. And as you are one of the last people to see materials before they are sent to the client you and your team are the critical life-savers for the agency, being able to spot any remaining proofing, QC and data errors.

You proactively provide training on DDB Remedy editorial processes and procedures for new starters and those that need it.

You work closely with the operations team, scientific director team, copy/writing leads, client partners, project managers, as well as navigating Workfront, scheduling work for the editorial team via the virtual bench. You participate in key weekly resource calls and quarterly roadmap meetings plus interrogate quarterly scopes of work (SOWs) to ensure sufficient and appropriate editorial talent is in place to support the business needs (both perm and freelance).

**Key Capabilities**
- Excellent proofreading, QC and sub-editing skills
- Excellent VEEVA and FUSE knowledge
- Proactive and solutions-orientated, and always approachable
- Able to manage pressure and deadlines
- Has strong relationships with colleagues and internal agency teams
- Champions and leads on editorial SOP

**Position Requirements**

**Productivity**
- Proactively inputs into systems and processes, and challenges them to improve the functioning and output of the editorial team
- Remains calm under pressure, does not pass stress on to co-workers
- Has strong time management skills, prioritising and delegating tasks efficiently within the editorial team
- Proactively manages the day-to-day workload and SOW(s) for the editorial team with the copy leadership team, operations team, project managers and key client partners
- Has a high degree of accuracy and reliability with everything they do, empowering their team to do the same
- Completes timesheets on time each week

**Relationships/Communication**
- Develops and maintains strong working relationships with agency counterparts; has earned their trust and respect
- Takes an active role in creating an inclusive and inspiring environment
- Acts as an ambassad