Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
This role is based in our Loughborough, United Kingdom office. You'll be joining our internal creative agency that reports to Corporate and supports diagnostics divisions across the organization.
Looking for meaningful work as a senior-level marketing copywriter with a company that’s committed to making the world a better place? This Senior Copywriter role is an outstanding opportunity to produce high-impact campaigns and coordinated tactics for our diagnostics businesses. The selected candidate will join a growing team of dedicated marketing copywriters who work alongside visual designers, webpage designers, and other marketing professionals within our in-house agency to deliver wide-ranging marketing materials that correspond to comprehensive strategic marketing plans.
As a senior-level member of that team, you will also review other writers’ work for factual and tonal accuracy, assist with their supervision and training, and help drive process and procedure improvements designed to not only boost efficiencies but also enhance creative output.
This role requires a unique blend of creative excellence and scientific fluency. You will help lead the development of copy that transforms complex scientific, clinical, and medical content into compelling customer-focused marketing while maintaining scientific accuracy and remaining aligned with intended use, regulatory requirements, and approved claims.
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Crafts thoughtful, innovative marketing communications across multiple channels consistent with brand standards, adhering to guidelines both in writing for multiple communication mediums and in interacting with internal partners.
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Balances creativity with scientific accuracy, ensuring messaging remains faithful to approved claims, intended use, and supporting evidence while maximizing customer impact.
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Develops copy that conforms to layout and other design parameters while maintaining the consistent voice and style of each respective brand.
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Brainstorms and develops dynamic and compelling creative concepts, both independently and collaboratively, that advance marketing strategies and integrated campaigns.
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Collaborates broadly with individual contributors from diverse teams to translate strategies outlined in creative briefs into engaging concepts and copy, all while embracing recognized guidelines.
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Helps lead and is part of a pod of writers serving various business partners, delivering branded creative that consistently maintains high standards in support of client goals.
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Helps coach copywriters while maintaining high standards for brand voice and guidelines, customer experience, and scientific accuracy. Helps guide copywriters on balancing creativity with scientific accuracy, ensuring messaging remains faithful to approved claims, intended use, and supporting evidence while maximizing customer impact.
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Demonstrates excellent judgment in simplifying complex scientific concepts into persuasive marketing without introducing inaccuracies, unsupported claims, or messaging that could create medical or regulatory concerns.
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Works on multiple concurrent projects, ensuring that you complete projects on time while upholding the highest standards of quality and creativity.
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Builds strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization and thrives in cross-functional team environments.
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Thrives in fast-paced environments, strategically balancing multiple priorities while maintaining both speed and accuracy.
- 7-10+ years marketing writing experience with a focus on creative and technical writing within diagnostics, life sciences, healthcare, medical devices, or similarly regulated scientific industries.
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Bachelor's Degree - Marketing, Communications, English, Journalism, Advertising or similar
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Demonstrated mastery in creating impactful marketing communications and exemplary writing abilities marked by unimpeachable knowledge of grammar, keen attention to detail—including excellent spelling and proofreading skills—highly accomplished story construction skills, and standout creative abilities.
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Demonstrated experience translating dense scientific, clinical, or technical content into compelling marketing communications.
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Strong understanding of the unique challenges of marketing within regulated healthcare, diagnostics, or life sciences environments.
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Comfortable collaborating with subject matter experts to ensure scientific accuracy while maintaining engaging, customer-centric messaging.
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Proven experience in writing both creative and technically oriented copy for on- and off-line marketing collateral and demonstrated ability to write clearly and concisely for defined target audiences.
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Clear facility for leadership, including a proven talent for providing assured supervisory guidance and mentoring.
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Ability to communicate effectively; strong presentation skills, and ability to respond well to critical feedback
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Familiarity using AI-enabled content development tools and modern creative workflows while maintaining editorial quality, scientific accuracy, and brand standards.
This is an office-based position with some in-office days and some work-from-home days.
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!
Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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