Posted 24 days ago
Senior Medical Writer
@ Ogilvy Health Canada
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Ogilvy Health Canada is hiring a Senior Medical Copywriter to write promotional copy across media for pharmaceutical and health brands, leading the writing department's quality and mentorship. The role involves client presentations, regulatory compliance review and disease-state research. Salary is $65,000 to $115,000 CAD.
Responsibilities:
- Write promotional copy across any medium
- Review creative copy for accuracy and compliance
- Mentor team members and lead the writing department
- Manage copy updates and reference documents for assigned brands
- Present internally and to clients
Requirements summary:
- Science degree
- Medical or pharmaceutical and/or CME experience required
- 4+ years as a copywriter in an agency or similar environment
- Excellent English grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Knowledge of medical terminology and pharmaceutical regulatory requirements
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-20
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-20
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-20
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Marketing |
| Experience | 4+ years |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Science |
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Ogilvy Health Canada
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Ogilvy Health is a creative network focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, providing bespoke solutions for “whole brand building” in an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Our legacy of creativity, our global network and our deep expertise allow us to apply diverse thinking to create solutions to client challenges. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum—through Consulting, Medical Education, HCP Promotion, Patient/Consumer Engagement and Customer Engagement and Digital Transformation.
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- 3,203
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 37
- Reported office locations
- Toronto, Ontario M5V 1G1, CA
- Montreal, QC H2Y 1M6, CA
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Ogilvy Health is a creative network focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, providing bespoke solutions for “whole brand building” in an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Our legacy of creativity, our global network and our…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Advertising Services |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 5 |
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Senior Medical Copywriter
Ogilvy Health Canada
About Ogilvy Health:
Ogilvy has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP).
For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health Canada on LinkedIn.
About the Role:
A Senior Medical Copywriter at Ogilvy Health collaborates within a multi-functional team of Creatives, Client Services, Strat Planners and Project Managers, and is a leader in the Writing Department. They are involved in a wide range of projects, including quality assurance, taking writing projects from first draft to final release, reviewing Creative copy for accuracy and compliance, mentoring, presenting to clients, coming up with tactics for brands, and doing research for both existing and prospective clients. Senior Medical Copywriters will have their work checked by a Creative Copywriter when necessary, and report to a more senior Medical writer for mentorship and quality assurance.
What You’ll Do
- Help foster a collaborative environment
- Write copy for any kind of promotional piece across any medium
- Attend project briefs, and work with the cross-functional team
- Work with Art Directors at project inception to understand specs and text restrictions
- Be a champion for assigned brands
- Collaborate with other Creatives to achieve the project’s communications objectives
- Manage copy updates for assigned projects, and/or delegate
- Manage and source reference documents for your brands, and/or delgate
- Be a resource for the cross-functional team on regulatory issues (PAAB, ASC, etc.)
- Provide insight into disease state and therapeutic landscape for your brands
- Proofread when needed
- Participate in brainstorms and ideation sessions
- Participate in conceptual development as part of senior creative team
- Present internally or to clients
- Review and sign-off on pieces prior to release
What You’ll Need
- Relevant education (Science degree)
- Medical/Pharmaceutical and/or CME experience is a must
- 4+ years’ experience as a copywriter, in an agency or similar environment
- Ability to craft engaging, digestible copy for any audience in any channel
- Excellent command of English grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Professional knowledge of medical terminology and expertise at articulating pharmaceutical process/requirements and manage regulatory submissions
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Dynamic thinking with skill for simplifying complex concepts
- To be a team player who is:
- Eager to collaborate and, at times, lead
- Solutions-oriented and resourceful
- An avid listener and learner
- Meticulous – attention to detail is a must
- Accountable, independent, and mindful of others
- Self-motivated
How We’ll Support You
Ogilvy Health celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.
Salary Range
$65,000—$115,000 CAD
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