Medical Copywriter
At a glance
Mid-level Copywriting role at Ogilvy Health Canada. Toronto · CA$65,000–CA$115,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Create promotional copy across formats, from early drafts through final release
- Review creative for factual accuracy and compliance, then approve materials before release
- Work with art directors early to align copy with project specifications and text limits
- Maintain assigned brands by updating copy, organizing reference materials and advising on regulatory issues
- Contribute disease-state knowledge, research and ideas to briefs, brainstorms and client work
What you bring
- A science degree or relevant education, plus promotional medical, pharmaceutical or CME experience
- One to two years writing in an agency or comparable setting
- Strong English mechanics and the ability to make medical concepts clear across audiences and channels
- Knowledge of medical terminology and pharmaceutical processes, including regulatory submissions
Who this fits
This mid-level role suits a copywriter who can simplify complex medical information, manage competing priorities and work carefully with a cross-functional team. You’ll receive mentorship and quality checks from a senior medical writer, with creative review when needed.
From the employer
Medical Writer – Ogilvy Health Canada
About Ogilvy Health:
Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities— Advertising, Experience, Public Relations, Health, and Consulting work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries to bring forth world-class creative solutions for our clients.
For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health Canada on LinkedIn.
About the Role:
A Medical Copywriter at Ogilvy Health collaborates within a multi-functional team of Creatives, Client Services, Strat Planners and Project Managers. They are involved in a wide range of projects, including quality assurance, taking writing projects from first draft to final release, reviewing Creative copy for accuracy and compliance, coming up with tactics for brands, and doing research for both existing and prospective clients. Medical Copywriters will have their work checked by a Creative Copywriter when necessary, and report to a more Senior Medical writer for mentorship and quality assurance.
What You’ll Do
- Help foster a collaborative environment
- Write copy for any kind of promotional piece across any medium
- Attend project briefs, and work with the cross-functional team
- Work with Art Directors at project inception to understand specs and text restrictions
- Be a champion for assigned brands
- Collaborate with other Creatives to achieve the project’s communications objectives
- Responsible for copy updates for assigned projects, and/or delegate
- Manage and source reference documents for your brands, and/or delegate
- Be a resource for the cross-functional team on regulatory issues (PAAB, ASC, etc.)
- Provide insight into disease state and therapeutic landscape for your brands
- Proofread when needed
- Participate in brainstorms and ideation sessions
- Participate in conceptual development
- Review and sign-off on pieces prior to release
What You’ll Need
- Relevant education (Science degree)
- Promotional Medical/Pharmaceutical and/or CME experience is a must
- 1-2 years’ experience as a copywriter, in an agency or similar environment
- Ability to craft engaging, digestible copy for any audience in any channel
- Excellent command of English grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Professional knowledge of medical terminology and expertise at articulating pharmaceutical process/requirements and manage regulatory submissions
- A team player who is: Eager to collaborate and is solutions-oriented and resourceful, an avid listener and learner and can manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Dynamic thinking with skill for simplifying complex concepts
- Meticulous – attention to detail is a must
- Accountable, independent, and mindful of others
- Self-motivated
How We’ll Support You
Ogilvy Health celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
Ogilvy Health Canada employees are encouraged to bring their ideas, experiences and perspectives, gleaned from their varied backgrounds to the workplace. We strive to create an environment in which all employees can feel comfortable to contribute to their fullest potential without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
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.
Salary Range $65,000—$115,000 CAD
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