Associate Creative Director of Copy
Loughborough - UK
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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
This role is based in our Loughborough United Kingdom office. Youll be joining our internal creative agency that reports to Corporate and supports diagnostics divisions across the organization.
Are you looking for meaningful work as a creative leader Were looking for an innovative and strategic Associate Creative Director of Copy to help define and lead the voice and creative strategy for all written and verbal marketing communications for our diagnostics businesses including but not limited to web email digital print and sales enablement materials. Using strong creative leadership skills youll help guide the copy strategy through positioning identification and tactics.
This role requires a unique blend of creative excellence and scientific fluency. You will lead copy development that transforms complex scientific clinical and medical content into compelling customer-focused marketing while maintaining scientific accuracy and remaining aligned with intended use regulatory requirements and approved claims.
- Leads and is part of a pod of writers serving various business partners delivering branded creative that consistently maintains high standards in support of client goals.
- Continuously coaches and develops copywriters while maintaining high standards for brand voice and guidelines customer experience and scientific accuracy. Guides copywriters on balancing creativity with scientific accuracy ensuring messaging remains faithful to approved claims intended use and supporting evidence while maximizing customer impact.
- Leads the full creative journey alongside UX brand and creative managersfrom planning mapping and strategy to writing editing and proofreading the final output of the written/verbal communication.
- Helps lead copy processes and resourcing ensuring the teams consistency and readiness to achieve strategic objectives budgets and timelines.
- Leads with a strong creative vision inspiring and guiding writing teams through concept development to deliver cohesive high-impact ideas.
- Demonstrates exceptional judgment in simplifying complex scientific concepts into persuasive marketing without introducing inaccuracies unsupported claims or messaging that could create medical or regulatory concerns.
- Builds strong collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization and thrives in cross-functional team environments.
- Thrives in fast-paced environments strategically balancing multiple priorities while maintaining both speed and accuracy.
- Builds trusted partnerships across Marketing Product Management Medical Affairs Regulatory and Commercial teams to influence messaging strategy and creative direction.
- 10 years related experience in leading creative writing strategy with a focus on creative and technical writing within diagnostics life sciences healthcare medical devices or similarly regulated scientific industries
- Bachelors Degree - Marketing Communications English Journalism Advertising or similar
- Demonstrated experience translating dense scientific clinical or technical content into compelling marketing communications.
- Strong understanding of the unique challenges of marketing within regulated healthcare diagnostics or life sciences environments.
- Comfortable collaborating with subject matter experts to ensure scientific accuracy while maintaining engaging customer-centric messaging.
- Talent for high-caliber creative ideation and marketing writing and experience in writing and directing copy for both on and off-line marketing collateral.
- Outstanding writing skills demonstrating excellent grammar attention to detail and story construction skills.
- Experience leading a creative writing team and strong understanding of advertising and marketing principles strategies tactics technologies and production.
- Ability to communicate effectively; strong presentation skills and ability to respond well to critical feedback
- Familiarity using AI-enabled content development tools and modern creative workflows while maintaining editorial quality scientific accuracy and brand standards.
This is an office-based position with some in-office days and some work-from-home days.
We offer competitive remuneration annual incentive plan bonus healthcare and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative forward-thinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity intensity involvement and innovation!
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100000 colleagues we share a common set of values - Integrity Intensity Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research solve complex scientific challenges drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific where diverse experiences backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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