Senior Analyst/Senior Medical Writer - Medical Communications

Role Summary

• Responsibilities: You will lead diverse Medical Communications projects within a skilled project team to deliver high-quality work to clients. Responsibilities include reviewing junior colleagues’ work for accuracy, and quality, as well as planning and overseeing projects
• Salary: £50,000 per annum
• Benefits: Discretionary profit share bonuses paid twice per year, hybrid and flexible working options, generous holiday allowance, private medical insurance, critical illness cover, income protection, full funding for external training and more
• Role Type: Full-time, permanent
• Start Date:  We are currently recruiting for start dates in early-mid 2026, including April and May, and you will be asked to state your availability on your application form
• Application Deadlines: Whilst there are no set application deadlines, we strongly recommend applying as early as possible. The role, or particular start dates, may close when suitable candidates are found
• Location: This role is available in our Global Headquarters in Cambridge, as well as our London, Manchester and Bristol offices

About the Role

Do you have experience successfully delivering publications or medical affairs projects? Do you enjoy building and maintaining client relationships? Costello Medical are growing their team due to demand from both new and existing clients and are therefore looking for candidates with prior experience in medical communications who enjoy content delivery and project management to join us as Senior Analysts and Senior Medical Writers.

Senior Analysts and Senior Medical Writers take a leading role across projects and work alongside the teams to ensure that client deliverables are created to an exceptionally high standard, in line with agreed timelines. This involves providing strategic advice to clients at project initiation, supervision of the project team and regular interaction with clients. Senior Analysts and Senior Medical Writers are central to the quality control of a project, involving the review of colleagues’ work and the provision of constructive feedback.

Our Medical Communications sub-teams collaborate closely, which means you will have the opportunity to work across one, or both, of the following project types:

• Publications: Including strategic publication planning, poster design and production of manuscripts, abstract development, and more
• Medical Affairs: Including delivering advisory boards, creating medical information materials, providing congress support, organising medical education events, developing medical education materials, and more

You will play an integral role in supporting business development by cultivating and sustaining strong client relationships, as well as identifying opportunities to offer additional services within existing projects. As you advance in this position, you may be entrusted with increased responsibility for managing client relationships, preparing budgets and overseeing project finances, as well as acting as a line manager for interns within your team.

Hybrid Working Policy: We believe that having face-to-face time in the office holds many benefits and is central to ensuring that the community we have created, where people have a workplace they belong to and feel part of, is never lost. At the same time, we recognise that homeworking can improve work life balance, reduce commuting times and costs, and provide the opportunity to juggle personal commitments.

Therefore, we offer flexible working arrangements that allow our colleagues who have passed probation to work from home up to half their time, measured across a 2-week rolling period. During your probationary period (normally the first 6 months of the role), you will be able to work from home 1 day per week.

A Day in the Life of a Senior Analyst and Senior Medical Writer

Learn more about a typical day in the life of a Senior Analyst and Senior Medical Writer at Costello Medical: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/working-at-costello-medical/

Career Development

Senior Analysts can progress to the Consultant role, and Senior Medical Writers to the Publication Manager position. Fast progression is available for high performers. As a Consultant or Publication Manager, you would have full responsibility for client management, including budgeting and business development, as well as project delivery. In addition, you would line manage team members and have internal responsibilities spanning areas such as recruitment and training.

To learn more about the tailored career progression we offer at Costello Medical, our colleagues share their experiences of growing with the company. Please click here to read more: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/working-at-costello-medical/profiles/

About Costello Medical

Costello Medical is a rapidly growing global healthcare agency specialising in medical communications, market access, and health economic and outcomes research. We work with a wide range of clients, including the industry’s most successful pharmaceutical and medical technology companies, patient and public health bodies, and charitable organisations. We have been listed in the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For list since 2017 and were proud to receive B Corporation accreditation in 2022. Learn more about us, our work, and our mission on our website: https://www.costellomedical.com/

Requirements

About You

We are looking for individuals who are collaborative, self-motivated and enthusiastic with professional experience within an agency setting, of typically no less than two years. Specifically, we are looking for candidates with the following experience:

• Delivery of medical communications projects – either publications, medical affairs, or both
• Communicating directly with clients, including responding to different communication styles
• Day-to-day leadership of project teams, including delegating tasks and managing the time of others

Further essential requirements for the role are:

• A degree level qualification in a scientific discipline (minimum 2.1). We welcome applications from candidates with a diverse range of specialisms, including but not limited to; biology, chemistry, pharmacy and medicine
• Exceptional attention to detail and high degree of written accuracy
• Excellent proficiency in written English and arithmetic
• Strong scientific writing skills with the ability to tailor writing style to different audiences
• Project management skills sufficient to enable timely project delivery
• Excellent data presentation skills, including the ability to use Excel, PowerPoint and Word effectively and efficiently, to produce a professional, high standard of work
• Sufficient technical and strategic knowledge to provide clients with recommendations on project content and approach
• The capacity to maintain exceptional customer service and quality of deliverables under multiple competing demands
• The proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships
• The ability to motivate colleagues and take a leadership role in the delivery of project components

Benefits

What We Offer

Alongside our award-winning company culture, where every team member is celebrated, respected, and has their voice heard, we are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• A starting salary of £50,000, plus profit share bonuses paid twice per year. Please note that we have established salary bands to ensure a fair and consistent approach for all applicants, eliminating the need for individual negotiations
• 4% employer pension contributions
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank and public holidays
• Flexible working hours, with the flexibility to start as late as 10am, finish as early as 4:30pm and take up a break of up to 90 minutes  
• The opportunity to work from home for up to 50% of your working time after passing probation
• An annual flexible benefits allowance of £1,000, which can be taken as cash, an additional pension contribution or used towards other benefits
• A holiday buy and sell scheme, allowing you to buy or sell up to 4 additional days each year
• A fully paid 4-week sabbatical after every five years of continuous service, which can be taken in one block, 2 x 2 week chunks or exchanged for a holiday top‑up
• Private Medical Insurance with comprehensive inpatient and outpatient cover on a medical history disregard basis
• A health cash plan covering everyday healthcare costs such as dental check‑ups, optical care, physiotherapy and more
• Paid study leave and funding for external qualifications
• Critical Illness Cover, Income Protection and Life Assurance, including 2x salary death‑in‑service cover
• Cycle‑to‑work, season ticket travel loan and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
• Global travel insurance for leisure use
• Two paid volunteering days per year

Learn more about our full reward package and the other benefits of working for Costello Medical: https://www.costellomedical.com/careers/benefits-package-in-the-uk/

The Application Process

You are required to submit your CV and a cover letter via our online application form. In your cover letter, you must explain why you think you would be suited to the role and why you would like to join Costello Medical, with examples to support both. Your CV should clearly state the dates of all qualifications and grades achieved where applicable.

Then, our recruitment process includes a telephone interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team, followed by an assessment for you to complete in your own time. If successful, you will be invited to an interview which will include a short presentation that you can prepare for in advance. Our standard recruitment process lasts around 4 weeks however, this can be adapted if necessary.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce and, throughout the recruitment process, there are a number of reasonable adjustments we can provide: https://www.costellomedical.com/reasonable-adjustments/

Please note that, whilst we embrace AI to innovate and improve processes, your role may involve working with confidential data that cannot be uploaded to AI. Therefore, it is important for us to assess your own skills and abilities, so we recommend that you do not rely solely on this technology to generate any application materials.

Visa Sponsorship

We can provide visa sponsorship for eligible candidates for our Senior Analyst and Senior Medical Writer role. You will be asked to provide details of your right to work in the UK within your application, however this will have no impact on the processing of your application.

For current Student visa holders looking to transition to a Graduate visa, in most cases you will be unable to join us in a permanent full-time position until you have submitted your Graduate visa application. Please refer to Immigration Rules - Immigration Rules: Appendix Student - Guidance - GOV.UK and Graduate visa: Overview - GOV.UK for more details. Please contact recruitment@costellomedical.com should you have any questions.