Reports to Senior Editor/Principal Editor/Editorial Manager

Job Summary

Editors provide high-quality editing, including proofreading, styling, and formatting, and editorial support, across a range of client deliverables and accounts to ensure required standards are met. Materials include abstracts, posters, manuscripts, PowerPoint presentations, training program and meeting materials, newsletters, proposals, and website content.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Ensuring that quality control is paramount within all materials produced across OPEN Health
• Providing editorial support including, but not limited to, proofreading, copyediting, document formatting, ensuring style guides (internal and external) are maintained or adhered to, templating, EndNote library maintenance and application of output styles
• Coordinating effectively and efficiently with appropriate members of the wider team (medical & scientific, client and creative services) on a range of projects
• Flagging budget and deadline issues/out of scope work to account Client Services teams
• Maintaining comprehensive style guides for all assigned accounts
• Developing and maintaining an understanding of the various client brands and disease areas
• Keeping abreast of all relevant industry guidelines including publication industry guidelines (e.g. Good Publication Practice)
• Submitting accurate and timely timesheet and expense records

Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Editorial experience within a medical communications company or related field, with a working knowledge of editorial processes
• Demonstrated ability in editing/styling scientific content
• Excellent knowledge of general grammar and punctuation rules
• Proficiency in MS365, including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to follow Editorial Services Team processes and procedures
• Ability to review own work for accuracy and consistency
• Ability to multitask in order to meet multiple deadlines while maintaining quality
• Demonstrated ability in using/maintaining reference management databases

Travel Requirements

• As required by business needs 

About OPEN Health

OPEN Health unites deep scientific knowledge with wide-ranging specialist expertise to unlock possibilities that improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing. Working in partnership with our clients, we embrace our different perspectives and strengths to deliver fresh thinking and solutions that make a difference.

OPEN Health is a flexible global organization that solves complex healthcare challenges across HEOR and market access, medical communications and creative omnichannel campaigns.

What we offer:

As a global organization, OPEN Health is committed to supporting our employees and their families through a comprehensive benefits program:

• Competitive pay, generous paid vacation and holidays, and health insurance programs across all our locations
• Ongoing training and development opportunities which foster and shape your individual career path
• An active and growing commitment to bettering the communities our employees call home through our Corporate Social Responsibility program
• The opportunity to thrive in a global, collaborative environment while working every day to improve health outcomes and patient wellbeing
• Diverse, inclusive culture that encourages you to bring your whole self to work

If we sound like the sort of business environment in which you would thrive, then we would love to hear from you.

OPEN Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.