Editor

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. Is an advanced user of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and Workfront Proof. Assists on editorial projects outside of assigned accounts as needed. Understands industry and agency culture and protects projects from commonplace threats to quality. Exemplifies excellence by adhering to best practices and standard operating procedures (SOPs), increasing personal expertise independently, and undergoing internal training. Completes assignments by deadline; communicates with team members proactively, effectively, and collegially. Records time accurately and adheres to company policies.

What You'll Do:

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 a mastery of different types of reviews (eg, cold reads, word-for-words, check changes, fact checks) and understands when to employ various levels of editorial rigor
• Displays an understanding of promotional regulations, audience, purpose, and client goals and objectives
• Adheres to best practices and standard operating procedures
• Identifies efficiencies when editing and training colleagues
• Advises brand team, copywriters, and other colleagues on editorial topics
• Encourages colleagues to follow established SOPs, while remaining flexible to client and/or business needs
• Onboards new team members to the brand and USM practices and advocates adherence to it
• Understands spheres of authority and agency-of-record (AOR) team RACI

Communication

Writes and speaks comprehensibly with colleagues and select client personnel.

• Maintains a professional tone and helpful demeanor in internal-and if necessary, external-interactions
• Provides clear, actionable feedback during editorial reviews
• Deals with challenges proactively and positively; values suggestions and constructive feedback
• Uses official communication channels as intended: Outlook, Teams, Egnyte, Workfront, etc.

About You:

• Attention to Detail

Can locate and identify errors in documents and files at a rigorous level; excellent eye for consistency; deep knowledge of the English language; is fluent in AMA style, with the ability to find answers to stylistic questions; is adept at secondary research; is comfortable working at the computer on complicated documents for long periods while maintaining focus and rigor

• Executive Functioning

Is an integral and proactive member of the team; can be counted on to think through project complications collegially and own editorial workstreams in an integrated manner; works with project managers when deadlines conflict to achieve efficiency and proper resourcing; can handle multiple deadlines while maintaining focus to execute individual projects with excellence

• Diligence, Dependability, and Honesty

Adheres to processes necessary to achieve excellence; knows how to push back when quality is being threatened; is not afraid to say “no” when absolutely necessary; understands how errors are introduced and has a strong distaste for scenarios that make quality harder to achieve; measures performance against perfection, choosing expediency only when necessary; evaluates materials honestly and constructively; cares about team and business success and has a desire to help; accepts responsibility for mistakes and works to rectify them

• Time Management

Uses time effectively and efficiently; concentrates efforts on top priorities and seeks assistance when necessary; communicates with colleagues and solves problems proactively while avoiding unnecessary delays; accurately estimates length and difficulty of tasks; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks, actively and routinely evaluating upcoming work; offers to help on other projects when idle

CORE COMPETENCIES FOR ALL AVALERE HEALTH POSITIONS

• Client Focus

Is dedicated to meeting and exceeding the expectations and requirements of clients; gets first-hand client information and uses it for improvements in services; acts with clients in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients and gains their trust and respect

• Functional/Technical Skills

Has the functional and technical knowledge, skills, and creativity to do the job at an extremely high level of accomplishment

• Ethics/Values/Integrity/Trust

Adheres to an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; acts in a direct and truthful way; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain

INTERACTIONS (EXTERNAL)

INTERACTIONS (INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS)

• Client (rare)
• Copy
• Art
• Project Management
• Client Service/Account
• Shared Solutions
• Other Staff, as needed

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and ability required.)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in English

Experience

• 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

Special

Knowledge/

Skills

• Proficiency in the use of MS Office, specifically Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Proficiency in internet and other 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

This job description supersedes all previous job descriptions. This job description is intended to be a tool to describe the primary purpose of the job and the KEY duties and responsibilities. The job description may not be inclusive of all duties and job responsibilities. Management has the right to add to or change the job responsibilities at any time.