Managing Editor (Medical Editing/Pharma Advertising)

Omnicom Health Group is the largest healthcare marketing and communications network in the world—partnering with clients to achieve meaningful change through better, more innovative communications. With more than 5,000 dedicated healthcare communications specialists from every corner of science, medicine, marketing, and communications, we recognize that it takes the best of talent to deliver the best of health.

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Title: Managing Editor

Department/Discipline: Editing

Location: New York, NY

The Managing Editor reports to either the VP, Editorial Director or the Associate Editorial Director and is a hands-on Editorial position that carries additional responsibilities of training, supervising, and evaluating department members to ensure they deliver editorially accurate work, while meeting agency and client deadlines.

This is a permanently remote position.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Clear all significant recommended changes in wording with the Copywriter or Copy
• Edit all manuscripts/layouts for grammar, punctuation, spelling, AMA style, client style, med/legal changes, internal consistency, etc.
• Edit copy according to Agency and Client style and make certain all jobs contain all appropriate information required by Clients and the FDA (eg, copyright lines, logos, and generic names, fair balance, job code numbers, please see lines, etc).
• Fact check all references cited in manuscripts/layouts for accuracy of citation and for faithfulness to statements or data drawn from references using annotations/references supplied by the Copywriter.

Supervisor for each job.

• Keep Copywriters, Project Managers, Art Directors, and Account Services team
• Ensure each job is reviewed at each stage according to Agency Job Flow Procedures

members informed of any significant editorial issues on any job.

• Demonstrate ability to set priorities when handling multiple projects and to delegate work appropriately.
• Project professional, positive attitude toward all Agency members.
• Attend team status and start-up meetings (including team/status meetings for the brands of the editors who report to them).
• Develop knowledge of client’s process/procedures for all submissions.
• In-depth knowledge of assigned product brands and brands of direct reports.

Qualifications:

• College degree
• 3-5 years of medical/pharma editing and proofreading experience
• Positive/helpful attitude.
• 1-2 years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Ability to coach others and follow instructions.

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

• $85,000 - $109,000

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.