Medical Editor

Overview:
**About Lucid Group**

Lucid Group is a multi-capability global healthcare consultancy. We partner with the pharma and biotech industry to deliver pioneering solutions that change behaviour, improve clinical practice and advance health outcomes.

Our pioneering spirit and people-centric approach means we create deep, durable partnerships with our ambitious clients to inspire behaviour change by exploring creative scientific solutions and designing compelling experiences that empower the recipient to learn, understand and act.

**Responsibilities**:
**About The Role**

Medical Editors at Lucid work in close partnership with the Medical and Client Services teams to understand project and client needs, and deliver tailored high-quality outputs. They are responsible for leading editorial excellence in these specific client accounts. They also work closely with members of the Editorial team aligned to other client accounts to champion quality assurance and compliance processes and resources across Lucid. Our Medical Editors are responsible for:

- Performing editorial reviews and checks of all medical and commercial project-related materials (including but not limited to: educational platform content, internal and external company communications, manuscripts, meeting reports, slide decks, standalone and symposium materials, video scripts and website copy) Proactively ensuring a good understanding of their accounts (clients, projects, therapy areas, etc) as required to provide excellent editorial input
- Ensuring adherence and alignment the appropriate style guide/s across their team, and maintaining any client-specific style guides where relevant
- Working with Head of Editorial and Editorial leadership to develop and maintain quality assurance and compliance processes and resources, as required, to ensure consistent editorial excellence across Lucid
- Providing quality checks on peers' work to ensure adherence to briefs and style guides and use of Editorial checklists, and providing associated constructive feedback to peers and Editorial leadership to optimise performance and development plans
- Supporting Editorial leadership with identifying editorial development, training and mentoring needs within the Editorial team and account teams
- Creating and delivering editorial training sessions to address any gaps identified in the Editorial team and account teams
- Contributing to Editorial’s operational efficiency and business performance by adhering to Lucid processes around time-keeping, resourcing and cross-functional working
- Proactively managing their own workload and deadlines, and working with Editorial leadership to coordinate and communicate resource needs and plans across the Editorial team
- Fulfilling the role of line manager and supporting the development of line reports, ensuring awareness and implementation of associated Lucid processes and milestones
- Mentoring junior Editorial team members to support excellent editorial standards and personal and professional development
- Assisting in the recruitment of new Editorial team members by assessing test documents, attending interviews, and contributing to the decision-making process
- Supporting with the onboarding of new Editorial and account team members by providing editorial induction sessions relevant to the role and individual's needs

Qualifications:
**Essential Criteria**:

- A degree in a scientific, medical of life-sciences field or in a language
- Good attention to detail
- Experience managing own time in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Experience editing a variety of print and digital/online materials for different audiences
- Excellent English language skills
- Proficiency in Adobe, Word, PowerPoint

**Desirable Criteria**:

- Experience in training others
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Experience working collaboratively and efficiently in a cross-capability team
- Experience working within a healthcare communications agency environment
- Experience editing content for the healthcare/pharmaceutical sector
- Experience in reviewing Editorial colleagues' work
- Experience in coaching, mentoring or line-managing others
- If you look at this list and feel you don’t meet every single requirement, we still want to hear from you We encourage you to apply, have a discussion with us about the role or others that we may have at Lucid Group either now or in the future, together we can build more inclusive workplaces._

**Benefits of Working with us**

Our culture is fundamental to the delivery of transformation. Harnessing the talent and ambitions of those we work with empowers us to deliver our magic. On top of this, our benefits include:

- Private family healthcare and dental cover
- Family friendly policies
- Contributory pension of up to 5% of basic salary Lucid contribution
- 4 x basic salary life assurance cover
- 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, plus 3 Christmas closure days, and a celebration