Copy Supervisor

The Copy Supervisor's primary responsibility is providing full copy support for various pharmaceutical clients across various brands and therapeutic areas, while managing a small team of writers, as needed. The Copy Supervior will typically oversee writers who are assigned to the same therapeutic areas and brands, and provide hands-on support, guidance, and feedback to ensure high-quality content is delivered to clients. Participation in strategic development and brainstorming sessions is also required. Appropriate candidates should have 4-5 years of healthcare agency writing experience for professional and/or payer audiences.

NOTE: Candidates in the NJ TriState Area (NYC/NJ/PA Local) will be prioritized for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Fluent with internal routing and submission prep process (iMeet, etc)
• Attends workshops, internal training programs, creative reviews, and other internal meetings that feature multidisciplinary teams to advance their understanding of basic and more advanced aspects of our industry
• Supports departmental presentations in all-agency meetings as appropriate
• Writes and edits original, creative, engaging, and relevant copy, enforcing consistency with style, tone, and, focus across aligned brands
• Communicates complex topics in a clean, concise, and medically accurate manner
• Maintains consistently high standards of writing to enhance the agency-client relationship and fulfills brand-specific goals to high degree of quality
• Conducts literature searches to learn about disease states, competitor messaging, healthcare trends, etc related to their assigned brands/workstreams
• Curates clear, accurate, and appropriately formatted annotations to prepare materials for med-legal-regulatory submission
• Understands clinical data and can defend claims during med-legal reviews
• Ensures all copy is scientifically accurate in partnership with strategy and SMEs, compliant with FDA guidelines, and adheres to brand and AMA style guidelines, ensuring consistency across resources
• Uphold professional image and demeanor across all internal and external engagements
• Participaties in and gathers notes for internal strategic and creative brainstorming workshop sessions comprising multidisciplinary teams that produce original and medically sound ideas
• Works both autonomously and closely with internal teams, including account managers, art directors, and other team members, to ensure content aligns to client expectations, brand style, and medical, legal, and regulatory guidelines
• Provides hands-on support to a small team of writers, including delivering feedback and approval of content before it’s shared with clients, as appropriate, based on business need
• Ensures direct reports are maintaining consistently high standards of writing
• Monitors the progress of projects on own assigned brands (and those of direct reports, as needed) through all phases of development (ie, manuscript, layout, client reviews, medical/legal/regulatory submission, production)
• Works conscientiously to maintain utilization in line with department expectations

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, marketing, or another related field
• 4 years of experience with a healthcare advertising agency
• Pharmaceutical marketing and/or managed markets experience/patient support program experience required
• Prior managerial experience preferred but not mandatory
• Excellent copywriting, editing, proofreading, and grammar skills
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills

Navisync, a division of NPG Health, is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.