🕒 13 days ago
The Medical Editor owns editorial quality for assigned pharmaceutical brands, editing and fact-checking promotional materials while maintaining FDA compliance, consistent brand voice, and clear style guidelines.
Medical Editor
🕒 13 days ago
Medical EditingCopyeditingFact-checkingRegulatory Compliance
📜 Description
- Edit copy and ensure regulatory compliance for branded and unbranded marketing/promotional materials for healthcare professionals and patients
- Fact check and proof existing copy for adaptation to new channels and audiences
- Copyedit promotional materials for grammar, punctuation, spelling, style, flow, and consistency
- Validate references to ensure they are current and meet reference criteria
- Collaborate with project managers, account managers, designers, copywriters, and other freelance editors as needed
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, english, journalism, or life sciences plus at least 3+ years of experience editing pharmaceutical promotional materials within an agency environment
- Knowledge of current AMA style; experience with medical/regulatory/legal reviews and familiarity with FDA requirements for drug promotion preferred
- Proactive, works well independently, and able to perform literature searches and understand scientific journal articles/medically related literature
✨ Benefits
- Provide medical, regulatory, and legal expertise to ensure consistency and accuracy within FDA guidelines and brand standards
Full job description
We are looking for a Medical Editor to join our team. You will be responsible for a range of editorial services, including medical editing, copyediting, and fact-checking of a wide range of digital and print pharmaceutical advertising materials, internal and external presentations, and corporate communications. You are familiar with the project lifecycle of pharmaceutical advertising materials and promote editorial consistency and medical, legal, and regulatory compliance during this cycle through the ownership of assigned brand(s). You will report to the Senior Medical Editor.
This role is open to remote candidates in the United States, with a preference for candidates in the Eastern time zone.
Responsibilities
Edit copy and ensure regulatory compliance for branded and unbranded marketing/promotional materials geared towards healthcare professional (HCP) and patient use across digital and print channels
Fact check and proof existing copy to adapt for new channels and audiences
Provide medical, regulatory, and legal expertise in order to ensure consistency and accuracy within FDA guidelines, internal style guidelines, and brand standards
Copyedit promotional materials for grammar, punctuation, spelling, style, flow, and consistency
Validate references to ensure they are current and meet reference criteria
Collaborate with project manager, account manager, designer, copywriter, and other freelance editors as needed
Manage own brand alignment and assist other editors as needed
Manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
Requirements
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in communications, english, journalism, or life sciences plus at least 3+ years of experience editing pharmaceutical promotional materials within an agency environment
Knowledge of current AMA style; experience with medical/regulatory/legal reviews and familiarity with FDA requirements for drug promotion preferred
Proactive, works well independently, and able to perform literature searches and understand scientific journal articles/medically related literature
Experience anchoring/linking in Veeva is a plus
Experience working across a range of therapeutic areas and product launches is a plus
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