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Wordbird is a welcoming workplace for…
your development
Your development
We invest wholeheartedly in the training and development of our team. Each and everyone of us record well over 35 hours of CPD a year. And that’s how we have become one of only 21 CPD Platinum agencies in the IPA. ‘Training is in our DNA’.
your health
Your health
We’re based in Battersea Studios which has great facilities for cycling and running to work, such as showers, drying cupboards and secure bike storage.
We have an active run club. Rain or shine they circumnavigate Battersea Park. Every month, we all get a free back and shoulder massage.
your benefit
Your benefit
Join a culture of openness and work to your strengths. We’re a strengths-based agency – find out what that means.
Enjoy a competitive salary, a generous budget for CPD and training, Cycle Scheme access and membership benefits of the IPA.
Wordbird is based in brilliant Battersea, conveniently set between Clapham and Chelsea. Battersea Power station, soon-to-be home to Apple HQ, is right next door – a powerhouse that complements our own. Plus you can hop on a Boris bike or the 137 bus and you’re in King’s Road in a jiffy.
hybrid working
Hybrid working
Enjoy the best of both worlds with days in the offices and working from home. We enjoy working and socialising together, but also appreciate the flexibility working from home provides. Did we mention Flow Friday? Our dedicated meeting-free day!
your creativity
Your creativity
We believe everyone is creative. Our Creative Wellbeing Fund gives you the opportunity for creative inspiration outside of work through books, Art Pass, meet ups or hackathons.
Wordbird Copywriter Academy for Life Science grads
Are you a Life Science grad looking for an exciting healthcare communications opportunity?
Our comprehensive Academy programme has trained several generations of grads to become fully-fledged healthcare copywriters.
Strengths-based culture
Every job is a training ground for your next job. We all want to know we are progressing professionally, learning, developing and becoming genuine experts in our chosen fields, so that our work feels meaningful to us and we feel satisfied.
When we work within our strengths, time flies, we feel energised, happy and fulfilled.
We’ve been tracking and using strengths since the agency started. Every year, every team member has completed a strengths profile. Individual profiles are combined to create team profiles. Strengths profiles guide agency and individual goal setting; they fuel our decisions. They also track our progress as individuals and as a team. We return to our strengths profiles again and again to:
Maximise our realised strengths
Develop our unrealised strengths
Collaborate more effectively
Come and work with us
If you like what you see and are interested in working with us, we'd be delighted to hear from you!
If you like what you see and are interested in working with us, we'd be delighted to hear from you!
Join our Academy
We are committed to finding and training a new generation of healthcare copywriters. Our training Academy recruits the best life science graduates and provides a comprehensive training opportunity.
If you would like to be considered, please contact us if you have:
We’re not recruiting at the moment, but please watch this space if you have:
A top-notch life science degree
Creative flair
Fabulous attention to detail
Plenty of old fashioned gumption!
Lawrence Clift
Creative Director
For me the most important thing is creating work that not only makes people think, but makes them feel something too. With over 20 years’ experience working across a vast portfolio of pharmaceutical brands, I relish the opportunity to develop new ideas or ways of thinking that challenge, excite and engage. I am fortunate to be part of such an incredible team who bring bundles of enthusiasm, energy and a deep understanding to everything we do.
Steve Hughes
Finance Director
With over 25 years of finance experience and over 16 years working in tech and healthcare, what drives me is companies with purpose. I oversee the management of sales, profitability, growth, cash, compliance – you name it. But most importantly, I’m part of a team that cares about the work and celebrates its people in equal measure. I’m also a dab hand at baking, which makes me quite popular in the office!
Kat Gridley
Strategy Director
My career started in healthcare market research, where I found a passion for understanding what matters to customers. After more than a decade of experience, along with an MA in brand development, my passion remains. I now help our ambitious clients create brand and communication strategies that stay true to customer needs, while delivering seamless audience engagement. What excites me most is delving deep to find transformative strategic solutions to unique challenges.
Andrew Nicholson
Executive Creative Director
I am an ideas person. Over my career, I have been privileged to help create some of the world’s most famous pharmaceutical brands. Our clients are looking for ingenious and compelling ideas, so I am very lucky that my job is to give them just that.
Sarah Sowerby
Founder
Over the last 33 years I have been privileged to help create or revitalise some of the very greatest pharmaceutical brands. I have worked in almost every therapeutic category, Rx, OTC, GSL and medical devices. I have created promotional and educational materials for almost every health audience imaginable, for almost every pharmaceutical company in a multitude of channels. What gets me out of bed each day is making a difference to people’s lives; telling the amazing stories of our fantastic health brands to relieve suffering or reduce health risks.
Content
- OCE / Veeva content partners
- Market shaping
- MOA and explainer videos
- Ethnography
- Evidence-based sales stories
- Channel neutral modular content for customer journeys
- Website content
- Social media plans and posts
- Patient engagement
- Sales force engagement
- Payor engagement tools
Creative
- Visual identity
- Packaging
- Logos
- Hero brand concepts and content
- Film and animation
- Brand guidelines
- Congresses and delegate engagement
- Bringing payor comms alive to maximise impact
Strategy
- Brand planning workshops
- Communications strategy to deliver commercial objectives
- Strategic partner to clients in their brand planning process
- Channel planning
- Comms planning
Insights
- Landscaping
- Competitor and customer understanding and war gaming
- Data mines
- ‘Story’ boards or advisory boards
- Market research and commissioning of MR or surveys
- Synthesis and recommendations
- Registered with BHBIA
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Matthew Wright
Scientific Director & Chief of Copy
I love words, and get a real kick out of crafting scientific stories that make audiences stop, think and take action. Scientists often don’t think of themselves as creative. I feel it’s my purpose to challenge this perception when I hear it from colleagues, contacts and even clients. With my background as a pharmacist and marketer, and nearly 20 years of experience across medical journalism, publishing and pharmaceutical communications, I ensure our work is scientifically on-point, editorially flawless and absolutely clear, while guiding the next generation of copywriters to hone their skills.