Editor
About the role
The Editor is responsible for maintaining quality and brand editorial style on assigned work in a fast-paced agency environment with multiple competing deadlines. Creates, maintains, and socializes brand stylebooks; editorially reviews and fact-checks; and liaises with team members to achieve project goals. Guides teammates on editorial matters, including training to brand style and advising on rhetorical decorum and credibility. Ensures projects are free of copy-based and data-visualization errors. Advanced user of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Workfront Proof. Assists on editorial projects outside of assigned accounts as needed.
Responsibilities
- Style Guide Owner: Develops and maintains brand style guide, socializing it to the rest of the team; Creates brand style guide using established practices; Updates on an ongoing basis per client and regulatory feedback on projects; Socializes style guide and solicits feedback from teammates; Ensures deliverables adhere to style guide
- Editorial Authority: Reviews brand materials and other projects for correctness, factuality, sense, credibility, decorum, compliance, and style; Checks files to ensure correctness, factuality, sense, credibility, decorum, compliance, and adherence to the brand style guide; Demonstrates mastery of different types of reviews; Understands promotional regulations, audience, purpose, and client goals; Adheres to SOPs; Identifies efficiencies; Advises brand team and colleagues; Onboards new team members; Understands spheres of authority and AOR team RACI
- Communication: Writes and speaks comprehensibly with colleagues and select client personnel; Maintains professional tone; Provides clear feedback; Uses official channels (Outlook, Teams, Egnyte, Workfront)
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in English
- Proofreading or editing experience required; must be computer literate
- Experience fact-checking annotations to ensure they accurately support claims and follow established style
- 2 to 4 years of experience proofreading and/or editing in a fast-paced pharmaceutical agency or similar environment
- MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) proficiency
- Proficiency in internet and secondary research tools; AMA style, Dorland’s, and PubMed preferred
- Familiarity with digital routing preferred
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as part of a cross-functional team
Skills
Benefits
- 401K plan with employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested)
- life insurance
- disability coverage
- medical, dental, and vision plans
- hybrid and remote work options
- work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year
- 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day
- 9 public holidays
- gifted end-of-year holidays
- early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
- free counselling via employee assistance program
- enhanced maternity, paternity, and family leave and fertility policies
- continuous professional development with on-demand training and global mobility opportunities
About Avalere Health
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