The Senior Medical Editor ensures scientific and editorial excellence across CG Life’s healthcare communications. This role provides a full range of editorial services, including medical editing, copyediting, proofreading, and fact-checking, for deliverables. The Senior Medical Editor serves as the primary editorial resource for assigned projects, maintaining ownership from early development through final review, and partnering closely with cross-functional teams to uphold clarity, accuracy, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

Editorial Quality & Final Review

Conduct the final review of all client-facing deliverables prior to client submission and medical/regulatory/legal (MeRL) review. This includes presentations, website copy, social media content, emails, and reports, or materials that may also be leveraged for new business opportunities.
Review and refine materials for clarity, consistency, tone, brand alignment, scientific accuracy, and adherence to style and regulatory standards.
Provide both quick-turn “triage” edits under tight timelines and comprehensive line editing for high-priority deliverables.

Style, Accuracy, and Compliance

Maintain and enforce client-specific style standards across all materials, ensuring consistency in terminology and messaging.
Maintain up-to-date style guides and templates, collaborating regularly (bi-weekly) with Regulatory and Copy teams to incorporate updates or client changes.
Perform light fact and terminology checks to confirm scientific accuracy and ensure proper alignment with verified sources (note: this does not replace subject matter expert review).
Ensure all materials comply with medical, regulatory, and legal (MRL) guidelines and each client’s unique requirements.

Collaboration & Process Support

Partner with Creative, Copy, Account, and Project Management teams to resolve content questions, prioritize workloads, and streamline project completion.
Represent the Editorial function in internal kickoffs, content reviews, and status meetings.
Participate in content development to establish editorial consistency, ensure proper structure, and guide overall content flow.
Review content at all stages for grammar, clarity, brand voice, client tone, and AMA/client style compliance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent combination of education and professional experience).
5+ years of editing experience within healthcare, medical communications, or pharmaceutical fields; experience in advertising or marketing preferred.
Deep familiarity with AMA Manual of Style and AP style.
Experience with medical/regulatory/legal review (MRL) processes and understanding of FDA promotional guidelines.
Strong command of medical and scientific terminology.
Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and accuracy.
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to work independently.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

At CG Life, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. As required by law in this state, the estimated hourly range for this position is $85.00 - $100.00 and represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect. We tailor our offers within the range based on organizational needs, internal equity, market data, geographic zone, and the selected candidate’s experience, education, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the selection process. At CG Life, it is not common for individuals to be hired at the higher end of the range, and compensation decisions depend on a variety of factors. This position is eligible to participate in a discretionary bonus program, subject to the rules governing the plan. CG Life offers a variety of benefits, including health benefits, 401K retirement with a generous company match and immediate vesting, and flexible time off.

This job posting is intended for direct applicants only; please, no outside recruiters.

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