Senior Editor

Title: Senior Editor

Location:

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Hybrid

Scientific Services

Full time

SEUK2026

Job Description:

Accelerating Life-Changing Solutions to Global Healthcare Challenges is the vision that unites us through a shared sense of purpose, whatever the role. It speaks to the significant challenges that exist within global healthcare, and how we, as one team, can help to deliver better solutions and outcomes for our partners and for patients everywhere, sooner. Your job description outlines the important role and responsibilities that you own in achieving this vision.

Importantly too is how we go about living our vision.  This is defined by the Prime mission:

Through a pioneering fusion of the finest expertise in science, strategy, evidence, technology and creativity we deliver the world-class outcomes that our global partners trust to achieve their goals.

It speaks to collaboration and to everyone’s responsibility to bring together the diverse expertise that exist across our team to deliver world-class outcomes.

On this foundation, we have defined four core values, these represent the shared principles that guide our behaviours every day, whatever your role:

Be Brave, Be Human, Be Passionate, Be Exceptional. 

At Prime these values are integral to who we are.  They are there to guide you in your role and support you on your personal journey to success.  They shape our culture and support us in achieving our vision together, as one global team. 

The Role

Our Senior Editors play a key role in ensuring the quality, accuracy and consistency of scientific and medical communications deliverables across a range of client accounts. They work closely with scientific and client services teams, providing expert editorial review, supporting project delivery and acting as a trusted source of editorial guidance. They contribute to the development of editorial processes and support the growth of less experienced editors through coaching, feedback and mentoring. In this role, they have an opportunity to work on a diverse portfolio of projects while helping to maintain the high standards our clients expect from Prime.

Main Responsibilities

• Editing and proofreading a wide range of medical communications materials, ensuring accuracy, clarity and consistency. This includes but is not limited to manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slide decks, digital materials and PDFs.
• Reviewing content for grammar, spelling, punctuation, style and formatting.
• Developing and maintaining editorial style guides (client, journal, in-house requirements) and ensuring deliverables comply.
• Applying tracked changes (electronically) and editorial feedback clearly and effectively.
• Performing quality control reviews and providing constructive feedback as necessary.
• Acting as a senior point of contact for complex editorial queries and style decisions.
• Collaborating with scientific and client services teams to support efficient project delivery.
• Helping coordinate editorial workload and resource planning across projects.
• Supporting the development of editorial best practices, processes and quality standards.
• Mentoring and coaching junior editors, contributing to their ongoing development.

Requirements

• 3-year editing experience in medical communications
• Life sciences degree required
• Previous editing experience, ideally within medical communications, healthcare or scientific publishing.
• Exceptional written English, grammar and attention to detail.
• Strong copy-editing, proofreading and quality control skills.
• Excellent organisational and time-management abilities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience providing feedback, mentoring or supporting the development of colleagues.
• Confidence working across multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Advanced proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Endnote and SharePoint.
• Experience using tracked changes, digital markup tools and style guides.
• A collaborative approach and passion for delivering high-quality work.

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave

• Birthday day off
• Christmas shutdown period
• 5% pension contribution
• Private medical health insurance
• Medical cash plan
• Hybrid Working