Senior Copywriter (Healthcare Communications)

Senior Copywriter (Healthcare Communications)

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn't just an aspiration—it's our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Our culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.

Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience Real Chemistry.

Job Summary:

Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Copywriter to join our growing team!

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Lambertville, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

What You'll Do:

Brand and Creative Strategy

• Displays a strong understanding of assigned brands and categories and is responsible for concept creation with Art partner.
• Contributes to or creates and executes strategic and tactical creative concepts that solve business challenges.
• Researches therapeutic topics and adapts findings to support brand strategies.
• Demonstrates a mastery of brand knowledge including any key competitors and platform presence.
• Able to bridge the creative approach with client's Medical and Legal requirements.
• Able to contribute and execute strategic and tactical advertising/communications concepts and ideas that address business challenges.
• Learns and owns the culture/behaviors of their audience/targets to tap into insights that will resonate with them

Writing/Editing

• Writes for one or more brands, ensures clinical accuracy, stays true to the brand voice, and has active role in meetings.
• Responsible for short- and long-form copy development for both HCP and DTC audiences.
• Writes clear, concise, accurate, and well-organized copy appropriate to relevant format/medium (print, digital, online, potentially social).
• Accurately annotates projects for fact check according to AMA style (without supervision).
• Prepares copy for review with supervisor(s) and account team.
• Aligns work to the creative/project brief—Finished copy up-levels the brief and answer all creative needs.
• Partners with Editorial team to ensure clean, accurate content in all pieces—Expert knowledge of grammar and spelling and is able to self-proof.
• Prepares materials for medical/regulatory reviews.
• Tracks all feedback and ensures all direction/edits are addressed, with their partner.
• Handles feedback maturely and executes against creative direction or editing needs with thoughtful expertise.
• Able to pivot written approach and "voice" to reach different clients, brands, and audiences.

Project Management

• Partners with PM recognizing time allocated for projects.
• Comfortable estimating hours for their role.
• Understands daily workload and manages deliverables to timelines, proactively informing supervisor and project manager of potential threats to meeting deadlines.
• Delivers on deadlines with minimal reminders from manager.
• Understands how work moves through agency
• Shows a mastery of team-wide copy creation process, and sometimes works to improve and/or inform workflows.

Client Engagement/Communications

• Develops a strategic understanding of the competitive landscape, demonstrating awareness of emerging data, changes in guidelines, and newsworthy events that could influence brand messaging/strategy.
• Participate in internal and client presentations when appropriate, while clearly articulating how the idea achieves the communication objective.
• Listens to and anticipates client needs.
• Represents the agency (with oversight) during medical/regulatory reviews, providing solutions and recommendations during live reviews.
• Attentive and responsive to client concerns; acts quickly to resolve creative issues and revise creative ideas
• Able to clearly and confidently present scientific and technical work in a highly-regulated medical/regulatory review (with oversight).

Job Complexity

• Works on multiple assignments of diverse scope.
• Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, while maintaining the bigger picture strategy.

Collaboration

• Eager to collaborate with art partners, copy leadership and with cross-functional teams, including Account, Strategy, Social, and UX
• Able to work across multiple creative partnerships, while still maintaining creative chemistry and output
• Comfortable being part of a creative partnership but also be an individual contributor of copy needs

This Position Is A Perfect Fit For You If:

• Our company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an "I" – really speak to you.
• You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We're always evolving.
• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.
• You are highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

What You Should Have:

Creative Skills

• Able to create concepts aligned with the client's strategy, for multiple clients, brands, and audiences.
• Able to bridge the creative approach with client's Medical and Legal requirements.
• Follows trends and actively uplevels their skills and industry knowledge through enrichment and learning.
• Always participates/contributes in brainstorms or ideation.
• A strong balance of big thinking and compliant work in a regulated industry.
• Asks probing questions to get to the heart of things.
• Demonstrates an intellectual & creative curiosity.

Education & Portfolio

• 5+ years of experience copywriting in an agency setting.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communication or related field or equivalent experience.
• Portfolio that demonstrates strategic solves to client problems or projects that show a strategic and conceptual thinking.
• Shows a broad range of tactics, short and long format writing.
• Nice to have: Earned Media as either a KPI or Results from the work or idea.

Pay Range: $93,000 - $105,000 This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Real Chemistry is proud to be Great Place to Work® certified; check out what our people shared about our culture and workplace on our Great Places to Work Profile here.

We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we've put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at:

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