Associate Creative Director of Copy

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.

Location/Division Specific Information

This role is based in our Birmingham, United Kingdom office. You'll be joining our internal creative agency that reports to Corporate and supports diagnostics divisions across the organization.

Discover Impactful Work:

Are you looking for meaningful work as a creative leader? We’re looking for an innovative and strategic Associate Creative Director of Copy to help define and lead the voice and creative strategy for all written and verbal marketing communications for our diagnostics businesses, including, but not limited to, web, email, digital, print, and sales enablement materials. Using strong creative leadership skills, you’ll help guide the copy strategy through positioning, identification, and tactics.

This role requires a unique blend of creative excellence and scientific fluency. You will lead copy development 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.

A day in the Life:

• Leads 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.
• Continuously coaches and develops copywriters while maintaining high standards for brand voice and guidelines, customer experience, and scientific accuracy. Guides copywriters on balancing creativity with scientific accuracy, ensuring messaging remains faithful to approved claims, intended use, and supporting evidence while maximizing customer impact.
• Leads the full creative journey alongside UX, brand, and creative managers—from planning, mapping, and strategy to writing, editing, and proofreading the final output of the written/verbal communication.
• Helps lead copy processes and resourcing, ensuring the team's consistency and readiness to achieve strategic objectives, budgets, and timelines.
   

Keys to Success:

• Leads with a strong creative vision, inspiring and guiding writing teams through concept development to deliver cohesive, high-impact ideas.
• Demonstrates exceptional judgment in simplifying complex scientific concepts into persuasive marketing without introducing inaccuracies, unsupported claims, or messaging that could create medical or regulatory concerns.
• Builds strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organization and thrives in cross-functional team environments.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments, strategically balancing multiple priorities while maintaining both speed and accuracy.
• Builds trusted partnerships across Marketing, Product Management, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Commercial teams to influence messaging strategy and creative direction.
   

Education and Experience

• 10+ years related experience in leading creative writing strategy with a focus on creative and technical writing within diagnostics, life sciences, healthcare, medical devices, or similarly regulated scientific industries
• Bachelor's Degree - Marketing, Communications, English, Journalism, Advertising or similar
   

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Demonstrated experience translating dense scientific, clinical, or technical content into compelling marketing communications.
• Strong understanding of the unique challenges of marketing within regulated healthcare, diagnostics, or life sciences environments.
• Comfortable collaborating with subject matter experts to ensure scientific accuracy while maintaining engaging, customer-centric messaging.
• Talent for high-caliber creative ideation and marketing writing, and experience in writing and directing copy for both on and off-line marketing collateral.
• Outstanding writing skills demonstrating excellent grammar, attention to detail, and story construction skills.
• Experience leading a creative writing team and strong understanding of advertising and marketing principles, strategies, tactics, technologies and production.
• Ability to communicate effectively; strong presentation skills, and ability to respond well to critical feedback
• Familiarity using AI-enabled content development tools and modern creative workflows while maintaining editorial quality, scientific accuracy, and brand standards.
   

Physical Requirements / Work Environment

This is an office-based position with some in-office days and some work-from-home days.
 

Benefits

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.
 

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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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