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Roles
Compensation
Competitive salary; supplemental medical, dental and vision insurance plans; Generous time off; Pension 401(k) plan with match; Health & Wellbeing offerings; Job training and advancement opportunities.
- Salary period
- unclear
- Location basis
- unclear
Benefits
- Supplemental medical, dental and vision insurance plans
- Competitive salary
- Generous time off
- Pension 401k Plan with match
- Health & Wellbeing offerings
- Job training and advancement opportunities
Tech stack
Required
Location
Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Work setup
- Employment
- Full-time Employee
- Level
- Mid-level
- Remote policy
- Remote OK; Work arrangement: Remote.
- Remote scope
- unclear
Role details
Responsibilities
- Review and edit a wide range of content outputs (including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slides, PDFs, and digital materials) for grammar, spelling, consistency, and clarity.
- Ensure alignment with house, client and journal style guides.
- Apply consistent and appropriate use of digital markup tools, tracked changes and comments to provide clear, actionable editorial feedback.
- Proof typeset copy to include consideration of layout (figures/tables, colors, size, quality, and resolution) and liaise with studio and/or journal for necessary amends.
- Check redrawn figures, PowerPoint and PDFs from studio to ensure accuracy versus submitted materials.
- Work with teams to ensure all required copyright and author permissions are in place, and the relevant copyright wording is included for reproduced materials.
- Own and update client style guides; ensure consistent application across accounts.
- Verify content for scientific accuracy and consistency by verifying data, references, and source materials in line with SOPs.
- Collaborate with the scientific team to resolve data discrepancies or uncertainties.
- Escalate concerns or unclear data to relevant team members to ensure final outputs meet Prime quality standards.
- Record and monitor actual vs. budgeted time on projects and complete timesheets accurately each week, submitting by the deadline.
- Proactively flag when task scope, timelines, or budgets are misaligned.
Requirements
- Life sciences degree required.
- 1+ year of experience working for a medical communications company, medical journal or similar.
- Highest standards of English spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Solutions-focused, sound judgement and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced agency setting.
- Strong multi-tasking, planning and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, EndNote, Outlook, Teams and SharePoint.
- Experience with digital markup, tracked changes, and editing tools.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Openness to learning, feedback and career development.
Application
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- Portfolio
- not required
- GitHub
- not required
- Cover letter
- unclear
- Apply flow
- external
Company context
Deliver world-class outcomes that global partners trust to achieve their goals; accelerating life-changing solutions to global healthcare challenges.
- Industry
- education
Description
Editor Accelerating life-changing solutions to global healthcare challenges is the vision that unites us through a shared sense of purpose, whatever the role. 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. The Role: Our Editors review and edit a wide range of content outputs (including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slides, PDFs, and digital materials) for grammar, spelling, consistency, and clarity while ensuring alignment with house, client and journal style guides. They apply consistent and appropriate use of digital markup tools, tracked changes and comments to provide clear, actionable editorial feedback. They contribute to effective and timely project delivery by performing dummy submissions, ensuring the team is aware of specific requirements related to journal and congress guidelines. They proactively communicate and collaborate with internal teams to ensure best practices are being followed. Key Responsibilities: Reviewing and editing a wide range of content outputs (including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slides, PDFs, digital materials) for grammar, spelling, consistency, and clarity; ensuring alignment with house, client and journal style guides; applying consistent and appropriate use of digital markup tools, tracking changes and comments; proofing typeset copy to consider layout and liaise with studio and/or journal for necessary amends; checking redrawn figures, PowerPoint and PDFs from studio to ensure accuracy versus submitted materials; working with teams to ensure required copyright and author permissions and relevant copyright wording; owning and updating client style guides and ensuring consistent application; verifying content for scientific accuracy and consistency by verifying data, references, and source materials in line with SOPs; collaborating with scientific team to resolve data discrepancies or uncertainties; escalating concerns or unclear data to relevant team members; recording and monitoring actual vs. budgeted time on projects and completing timesheets accurately each week, submitting by deadline; proactively flagging when task scope, timelines, or budgets are misaligned. Requirements: Life sciences degree required; 1+ year of experience working for a medical communications company, medical journal or similar; impeccable English spelling, punctuation and grammar; meticulous attention to detail; excellent written and verbal communication skills; solutions-focused, sound judgement and problem-solving; effective work in a fast-paced agency setting; strong multi-tasking, planning and organizational skills; proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, EndNote, Outlook, Teams and SharePoint; experience with digital markup, tracked changes, and editing tools; openness to learning, feedback and career development. Benefits: Supplemental medical, dental and vision insurance plans; competitive salary; generous time off; Pension 401k plan with match; Health & Wellbeing offerings; job training and advancement opportunities.
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