Senior Medical Editor
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Who We Are
VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
About VML Health:
VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between. It operates fluidly within the VML agency, as a core group of health specialists (a ‘vertical’) that has the benefit of autonomy in management, but with support of non-health expertise.
At the heart of health is the story of life – all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities. But facing a health challenge can suddenly pull people away from these stories, knocking them off course.
Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning. We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals’ and patients’ needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call ‘radical empathy’.
VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live. Get to the heart. Connect for life.
Who we are looking for:
VML Health is seeking a Senior Editor (SE) who will be heavily involved in the day-to-day movement of projects, with involvement from manuscript to final release. An SE will work on assigned accounts without need for daily supervision; demonstrate leadership qualities; be detail-oriented, with a thorough knowledge of assigned account; apply client style, FDA regulations, and AMA requirements to each piece to help ensure the accuracy and integrity of all jobs that move through the agency; mentor junior staff; and act as a training resource for editors.
What you’ll do:
- The Senior Editor contributes to the evolution of a project, with input from manuscript to final release, and helps ensure adherence to departmental processes
- Works on assigned accounts without need for daily supervision, demonstrates leadership qualities, mentors junior staff, and acts as a training resource
- Creates and oversees implementation of editorial style specific to each account
- Demonstrates familiarity with FDA regulations and expertise in AMA style, grammar, spelling, clarity, usage, punctuation, and individual client style to help ensure the accuracy and integrity of all jobs that move through the agency
- Copyedits and fact-checks
- Collaborates with all members of account team, including account executives, copywriters, and art directors, to help ensure adherence to departmental processes, and editorial and client guidelines
- Acts as a training resource for junior editors
- Maintains comprehensive style manuals
What you’ll need:
- 3+ years of experience in medical/pharmaceutical copyediting in an advertising agency or pharmaceutical company.
- Detail-oriented, with superior organizational skills and good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent command of language, with strong client/product knowledge and familiarity with FDA regulations regarding Rx drug advertising.
- Well-organized and able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
- Flexibility to work late/weekends when required
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat
- Expertise in Workfront
- Comfortable with learning new technologies
What we offer:
- Passionate, driven people | We champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
- Consciously cultivated culture | We aim to embody the behaviors to build an inclusive community that is in it together, bringing both positivity and active listening into the workplace as we simultaneously strive to empower creative bravery.
- Competitive benefits| What we offer full time hires ranges from the full spectrum of group health coverage options (medical, dental, vision) to a generous 401k match (100% dollar-for-dollar match, up to 5% of salary contribution), and a variety of paid time off offerings that reflect our investment in all aspects of your overall life balance and wellness.
- Growth-minded opportunities| We aim to nurture a culture of real-time feedback, growth-oriented mindset, and plenty of training opportunities through VML and WPP, so you can continue to grow personally and professionally.
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The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.
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