Principal Medical Writer

Principal Medical Writer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
As a Principal Medical Writer, you will be the trusted, client-facing lead for one or more flagship accounts, shaping high-quality scientific content that makes an impact in life sciences education. You'll create accurate, compelling, and referenced materials across a broad range of training deliverables-such as self-study curricula and interactive workshops.
Recognised as a subject-matter expert within the life sciences training space, you'll bring both strategic insight and editorial excellence to every project. In this senior role, you'll also have the opportunity to mentor fellow medical writers, elevating standards, share best practices, and contribute to the continued growth of the team.
Nazaré is our leading Learning & Capability brand (Part of Inizio Engage XD). We design and deliver impactful training experiences that drive real behavior change and performance improvement for pharmaceutical and biotech organizations.
You will report into the Scientific Director
What Will You Do... Content Creation
Serve as the client-facing lead writer on one or more accounts
Research material for assigned projects, including performing literature searches
Writing fully referenced and well-organized content outlines
Write fully referenced drafts that are:
Medically and scientifically accurate
Clear, well-written, and engaging
Aligned to the scientific strategy
Appropriate to the audience
Appropriate to the deliverable type (print, digital, film and workshop)
Aligned to the supplied style guide and/or writing template
Infuse instructional design elements (e.g. learning goals, practice activities, assessment questions) into written materials
Incorporating feedback (internal reviews, client feedback, MLR feedback)
Mark up references to support your writing
Incorporating copyedit and fact check changes
Attend and represent scientific on internal and external meetings, including answering content-related questions and presenting recommendations
Collaborate cross-functionally with internal team members from creative, learning experience design, performance, learning delivery, and editorial
Perform peer-reviews of fellow Principal Medical Writers' work
Manage time to ensure that projects are delivered within the budgeted hours
Complete all work within the allocated time and following project specifications
Business Growth
Help with research to gain an understanding of the disease state, portfolio/pipeline, and/or competitive landscape for an identified therapeutic area or company
Clarifying client needs for assigned accounts and developing scientific recommendations in response
Participate in internal brainstorming sessions to support assigned accounts
Partner with Scientific Director to provide scope (i.e. writing hours) estimates for assigned projects
Mentorship
Provide medical writing mentorship to one or more medical writers on the team
What Do You Need To Have... Graduate degree (PhD, PharmD, MS, MD) in the life sciences, pharmacology, or medicine
At least 5 years of relevant medical writing experience focused on pharmaceutical sales training, ideally gained within a healthcare communications agency
Fluency in conducting literature searches
Experience developing scientific content suitable for a variety of deliverable types
Current knowledge of AMA style guidelines and ability to write within guidelines
Working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly the drug development and commercialization processes
Experience working on multiple projects and within deadlines
Just A Few Of Our Benefits... Great compensation package
23 days' personal leave plus public holidays and volunteering leave
Private Medical Plan and Life Insurance
401(K) Plan
Hybrid working
A Bit About Us... Engage XD is an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. We partner with clients to provide employee engagement, learning and training solutions, scientific engagement and capability building, all underpinned by applied behavioral science. We engage internal and external audiences through the creation and delivery of live and virtual experiences, film, digital, and immersive content.
Our family of brands is made up of: Emota, Forty1 and Nazaré.
We believe in our values: We empower everyone | We rise to the challenge | We work as one | We ask what if | We do the right thing and we will ask you how your personal values align to our values
This is a hybrid remote/in-office role.
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.