Medical Writer, GCS Creative Services

Are you driven to turn complex science into narratives that change decisions for healthcare professionals and improve life for patients? Do you thrive at the intersection of scientific rigor, creative storytelling, and rapid delivery at scale? As the senior scientific content authority within GCS Creative Services, you will shape the scientific voice behind our most visible HCP, patient, and internal communications. You will partner closely with a Creative Lead and an Experience Lead from intake to final delivery, ensuring every word is accurate, compliant, on-brand, and designed for the channel and audience at hand. Your work will help clinicians understand evolving evidence, empower patients to engage in their care, and enable our internal teams to deliver on bold ambitions across therapy areas.

This is a role for a medical writer who moves with agency-caliber pace and polish, can pivot seamlessly from congress updates to MLR-ready copy, and enjoys orchestrating content with distributed studio teams. You will build the frameworks—messaging maps, claims substantiation, and modular content—that power consistent, scalable storytelling across our portfolio.

Accountabilities: Scientific Content Development: Lead the creation, review, and maintenance of high-quality scientific materials—narratives, MSL resources, infographics, FAQs, and multi-format assets—that inform and engage HCPs and patients across therapeutic areas. Creative Partnership: Collaborate with the Creative Lead from intake through delivery to merge scientific clarity with visual storytelling. Shape content hierarchy, structure, and layout to maximize comprehension and impact.

Experience Alignment: Work with the Experience Lead to align content with brand priorities, editorial calendars, and stakeholder expectations. Support intake responses, scope content requirements, and manage timelines to hit critical milestones. MLR Excellence and Compliance: Prepare and submit MLR-ready packages with full claims substantiation, accurate referencing, fair balance, ISI placement, and rigorous version control. Address copy and evidence-related comments to secure timely approvals. Evidence Strategy and Reference Management: Conduct targeted literature searches, assess data quality, select and track references, ensure traceability between claims, citations, and copy across versions and channels.

Multi-Audience,Multi-Channel Strategy: Develop and adapt content for DTC/patient, DTP, HCP promotional and educational, medical/scientific, and market access deliverables. Tailor tone, reading level, and depth to each audience and channel. Scientific Interpretation and Synthesis: Translate clinical studies, endpoints, statistical analyses, guidelines, and real-world evidence into precise, compelling narratives. Rapidly synthesize congress updates and publications into concise summaries and key messages for in-market assets. Brand Voice and Editorial Governance: Uphold AstraZeneca’s brand voice and editorial standards. Elevate clarity, accessibility, and inclusivity while proofreading and editing for grammar, style, data integrity, and regulatory alignment.

Agile Delivery and Studio Coordination: Operate within an agile model, managing content workstreams through iterative cycles. Provide direction, annotations, and quality oversight to near-shore studio teams for accurate copy and layout execution at scale. Content Standards and Governance: Maintain templates, glossaries, style guides, and taxonomies aligned to GCS standards. Advance best practices for routing, file hygiene, modular content development, and content reuse.

Creative Briefing and Concepting: Contribute to reverse briefs, ideation, and creative reviews alongside Creative and Experience Leads. Provide scientific perspective and feasibility guidance early in the process to de-risk execution. Quality Assurance and Review: Serve as the final quality checkpoint for all written content prior to MLR and stakeholder delivery, ensuring scientific accuracy, citation integrity, brand alignment, and compliance readiness.

AI-Enabled Efficiency: Support AI initiatives in content creation. Use AI-assisted writing and research tools to accelerate development while maintaining scientific rigor and regulatory compliance.

Mentorship and Capability Building: Coach junior writers and near-shore partners on scientific storytelling, referencing standards, MLR expectations, and emerging formats and channels. Foster a culture of scientific excellence and continuous improvement.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• 7 years in medical writing or healthcare copywriting within pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, or regulated healthcare communications

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Communications, or related field

• Extensive experience in pharmaceuticals or biotechnology, with deep familiarity with DTC, DTP, HCP, medical content, and market access requirements

• Hands-on experience preparing, submitting, and revising MLR packets with fluency in claims mapping, reference standards, fair balance, and promotional labeling constraints

• Demonstrated ability to interpret clinical studies, endpoints, statistical analyses, and clinical guidelines and translate them into accurate, compelling narratives for HCP and patient audiences - Proven multi-channel portfolio spanning digital (email, web, social, CRM, banners), sales enablement (detail aids, slide kits), congress materials, and select print, with understanding of channel specifications and accessibility best practices

• Strong client-facing and cross-functional communication skills; confident presenting work, synthesizing feedback, and driving alignment with Creative Leads, Experience Leads, brand teams, and medical affairs stakeholders

• Experience operating within agile or iterative delivery models, managing content workstreams through sprint-based or rapid-cycle environments

• Proficiency with reference management and annotation practices; familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Workfront, JIRA, Monday.com), collaboration platforms, and DAM systems

• Working knowledge of AI-assisted writing and research tools

• Meticulous approach to grammar, style, citations, and version control; proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with tight timelines while maintaining scientific accuracy and quality

• Experience maintaining or contributing to style guides, glossaries, content templates, and modular content frameworks

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Agency experience with demonstrated ability to operate at pace and quality standards

• Experience coordinating with distributed or near-shore production teams

• Advanced degrees (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MPH, MSc)

• Experience developing messaging frameworks, claims maps, and MLR-ready content packages across a portfolio

Why AstraZeneca: Here, scientific knowledge meets bold commercial execution to deliver solutions that matter to patients. You will work in a high-trust, high-autonomy environment where scientists, creatives, and data experts sit together to spark ideas, start small, and scale fast. We connect across the healthcare ecosystem to identify where communication can make the biggest difference—clarifying evidence, accelerating understanding, and improving decisions across the patient journey. Expect pace, thoughtful risk-taking, and genuine collaboration; we value kindness alongside ambition. Your craft will help translate breakthrough evidence into action, contributing to real outcomes—including progress that is already changing the trajectory of serious disease.

Call to Action: If you’re ready to lead the scientific story that moves clinicians and patients to better outcomes, step forward and show us how you will raise the bar!

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