Copywriter (junior-mid-level)

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Full-time - Entry Level

Remote

10,001+ employees

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. With a team spanning 120,000+ colleagues worldwide, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. Together, we accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion means that we value diverse experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives, creating a collaborative and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. PPD, the clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific, has an opening for a Copywriter to participate in crafting meaningful content for clinical trials to help drive and deliver a clear narrative and unified voice across multiple touchpoints to attract and persuade a patient population for study trials. The role requires a willingness to collaborate alongside designers, digital producers, project managers, and strategic marketing planners to create assets that convert vital randomizations. The successful candidate will have 2-3 years of writing experience and possess outstanding writing skills and an ability to craft compelling messaging that moves people to action across all media sources. You will need an understanding of the creative process and coordinated marketing, including audio, video, print, experiential, and digital teams; and know how to weave ideas and write copy across all of them.

Responsibilities

• Uses creative problem-solving to produce campaign ideas and copy for patient-facing recruitment, as well as internal creative projects to support all areas of the organization.
• Project manages campaigns from start to finish and updates key partners during various stages of the campaign development process.
• Is a quality check to ensure all results are within brand and copy style guidelines and driven to a high standard of excellence.
• Interacts and collaborates with other groups including marketing and project managers.
• Conceptualize and draft campaign copy across various outreach channels; develop conceptual ideas and campaigns with meaningful narratives.
• Collaborate with key customers to create an agreed upon volume of work within a specific timeframe to meet the needs of global research for clinical trials.
• Participate in brainstorm sessions to ideate industry leading results.
• Evangelizes and educate relevant teams on audience-centric content strategy standard processes as well as content governance.
• Understands and applies audience insights, personas, messaging and competitive information to shape content strategies.
• Identifies and recommends opportunities for content reuse.
• Understands and demonstrates industry trends to ensure content quality and relevance.
• Provides operational support for content strategy and creation, engaging cross-functional participants and owning the content calendar, workflow and deadlines.
• Writes and edits a mix of assets in support of the content plan and in the context of messaging, brand and editorial guidelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, media, film, communications or journalism or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
• 2-3 years of writing experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job.
• Experience working cross functionally on a global scale with all levels of staff.
• Ability to develop and complete big ideas from beginning to end, and keep deliverables on time.
• Excellent writing and editing skills including strong attention to detail.
• Excellent time management and social skills.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building abilities.
• Technical and systems competency, such as computer skills, to include effective use of systems and applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as Adobe Creative Cloud and other organization systems.
• Effective oral and written English communication and presentation skills.
• Initiative-taking, solutions oriented and adaptable to changing priorities and situations.
• Good judgment and decision making skills.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Annual incentive plan bonus
• Healthcare
• Range of employee benefits
• Outstanding career and development prospects
• Innovative and forward-thinking organization
• Exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation