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About Us
Virgo Health works for pharmaceutical, biotech, and device companies to inform and educate healthcare professionals about the latest developments in clinical research and therapeutic approaches. We leverage our meetings, digital, and interactive expertise to understand what's easy and relevant for healthcare professionals to engage with. We tailor our content and design it to offer choice and active participation. Real, relevant, and human.
Job Overview
The principal editor assists in the development and delivery of high-quality medical education materials. This diverse role encourages best practices and use of health education processes across editorial services and the wider team, and successfully serves as a point of authority and / or source of advice for the brand.
Core Responsibilities
Editing
- Expert on the brand. Owns the agency process
- Demonstrates and applies extensive knowledge of assigned brands including key brand issues and copy strategy
- Proven skills across all medical editorial functions including substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking
- Strengthens and maintains the editorial process; actively implements SOPs, communicates, ensures, and enforces adherence to flawless standards of quality
- Plans workload, forecasts and plans resourcing for editorial work, and proactively highlights resource gaps and recommends solutions
- Ensures all written communication produced aligns with Virgo quality and house style / client style (as appropriate)
- Acquires figure / table permissions and maintains permissions tracker
- Ensures adequate therapy area knowledge to actively interrogate copy and assist team in identifying errors
- Sets up and ensures maintenance of appropriate filing systems and databases and delivers specific training as appropriate
- Negotiates with internal teams to strategize on timeline and editorial concerns
- Undertakes specific writing projects, eg, development of biographies, where appropriate incorporate basic client / author comments (under the direction of a medical writer)
- Undertakes advanced literature and broader internet searches to support medical writers and liaises with external services as required to initiate more complex searches
- Provides on-site meeting support as appropriate
- Assists account teams in compiling the results to program evaluations completed at live programs
Relationship Building
Team Working
Knowledge and Industry Awareness
Project Management
Experience / Skills Required
Virgo Characteristics
Key Performance Indicators
Virgo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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