Editorial Assistant - Medical Communications

Editorial Assistant - Medical Communications

Salary: £Competitive + excellent benefits

Location: Remote and/or hybrid (London, Manchester, Knutsford, Oxford, or Brighton)

About the role

You will provide support for editorial assignments, including proofreading work; reference retrieval; permissions acquisition; preparation of submission packages for manuscripts, reference binders, slides, and other editorial assignments. You will complete assignments on deadline; update project databases and perform administrative functions as needed. In return, Fishawack will offer you excellent job benefits, on-going career opportunities and a supportive & flexible working environment.

About Fishawack Health

Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,500+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Medical; Marketing; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; and Consulting.

Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.

Fishawack Health (FH) is a leading global commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

The future of health is fast-paced and complex, demanding a different approach. Established in 2001, our 1,500+ healthcare experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Medical; Marketing; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; and Consulting.

Working across the product and service lifecycle, together with our teammates in shared creative teams (Creative Studio, Editorial Services, Motion, Digital, Events, and Media) and Group Services, we engage our collective force to innovate and solve the complex healthcare challenges of today and tomorrow.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Fishawack Health, we imagine a healthier world and build the connections to make it happen.

What you'll do

• Maintain regular and accurate updates for publications and related projects
• Effectively coordinate reference retrieval
• Conduct appropriate literature searches for editors, sales personnel, and publications managers based on supplied search criteria
• Accurately and effectively compile and track information on congresses and meetings, journals, and opinion leaders through online searches, telephone calls, faxes, etc
• Accurately prepare journal submission packages for editors
• Accurately proofread draft and final layouts, presentations, electronic documents, etc against copy edited manuscript or layout
• Manage project files and archiving on assigned projects; files paper and electronic documents based on company guidelines in an organised manner
• Create documents per client/journal/manager/society specifications that are visually appealing with no errors
• Effectively prepare documents for layout, including collating, coding, indicating special design features, highlighting symbols or foreign accents, numbering art, etc
• Maintains permissions work related to applicable projects. Requests, compiles, and tracks information pertaining to obtaining permission to reuse borrowed/previously published materials in a complete, neat and orderly manner
• Accurately maintains this information in a central database and runs appropriate status reports as requested in a timely manner

About you

• Bachelor’s degree; degree in life sciences, English, or communications preferred
• Ideally 1+ years experience in the editorial process, publication development, preferably including project management knowledge
• Knowledge of online reference-retrieval tools
• Proficiency in the use of MS Office, specifically Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Proficiency in Internet and PubMed searches
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and as part of a team

What we can offer

Fishawack Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization to encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and innovative solutions. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have offices in 19 city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

Reasonable adjustments

Fishawack Health is an equal opportunities employer and place where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in our differences and only by embracing these differences can we build a healthier world together. We strongly encourage people from minority backgrounds, LGBTQIA+, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

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