Freelance Medical Writer (Medical Education)

M3 is the global leader in digital solutions in healthcare. We work with a range of sectors including healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and charities; services provided to these sectors include market research, medical education programs, promotional programs, clinical development, job recruitment and clinic appointment services. M3 has grown by more than 20% year-on-year for the past 15 years, achieving over 1 billion dollars in revenue annually.

Founded in 2000, with start-up investment capital from Sony, M3’s mission is to make use of the internet to increase, as much as possible, the number of people who can live longer and healthier lives, and to reduce, as much as possible, the amount of unnecessary medical costs. Key achievements of M3 Inc. include:

• Named in Fortune’s 2020 ‘Future 50’ list, ahead of Facebook and Amazon
• Ranked in Forbes’ 2020 Global 2000 list of the world’s largest public companies
• M3 is the only company incorporated after the year 2000 to be included in the Nikkei 225 Index
• Listed in Forbes’ ‘Asia’s 200 Best Over a Billion’ in 2019
• In 2020 M3 founded the ‘M3: Stop COVID-19 Fund’ and pledged one billion yen to support COVID-19 related initiatives

M3’s legacy lies in the power of trusted physician platforms. Around the world, M3 organizations leverage these highly engaged digital communities to deliver medical education, job placement, and market research, to improve global patient outcomes.

This role sits within M3 Global Medical Education, a subsidiary of M3 Inc. M3 Global Medical Education is a new business unit in M3.inc, which creates independent medical educational content supported by grant funding from relevant stakeholders. M3 Global Medical Education leverages its global reach of physicians to maximize the impact of the content created.

We are looking for creative, resourceful and enthusiastic writers to join our Global Education Team, which is still in its start-up phase. The Medical Writing team at Global Medical Education is responsible for producing a wide variety of medical educational content to provide education to physicians globally.

The medical writing will break down into two parts: (1) writing grant proposals and supporting other proposal process for selling independent medical education projects and (2) development of actual medical content once a project is won (e.g. modules, infographics, microsites, webinars, etc.) There will be opportunities to work with other entities of M3 if the candidate wishes, especially with Doctors.net.uk, which creates a wide range of content, including pharmaceutical promotional content.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Writing, editing, proofreading and quality checking content
• Planning campaigns with the wider team
• Working closely with the Design, Account Management and Programme Management teams
• Potential for travel for international and national medical conferences

• Must have a 2:1 in a life sciences degree (preferably a PhD)
• Experience with writing successful medical educational grants, or content similar to medical educational grants
• Must have at least 1 years’ writing experience (3 years for senior medical writers) in a working environment in the pharmaceutical, commercial or digital industry
• Ability to write clear and concise, scientifically accurate content
• Excellent attention to detail
• Happy to work across a wide range of therapy areas
• A keen interest in working in healthcare communications, education
• Ability to build strong working relationships and surpassing expectations

Behaviour

• Able to develop and maintain strong professional relationships
• A clear concise communicator at all levels who develops trust easily, and both internally and externally to the organisation
• Excellent time management skills
• Willingness to get involved and show initiative to improve and make internal processes more efficient

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