Senior Copywriter

About Havas

Founded in 1835 in Paris, Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications networks, with more than 22,000 people in over 100 countries sharing one single mission: to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people. Havas has developed a fully integrated model through its 70+ Havas Villages around the world, covering all communication activities. The teams of the three business units, Havas Creative Network, Havas Media Network and Havas Health & You, work together with agility and in perfect synergy to offer tailor-made, innovative solutions to clients that support them in their positive transformation. Havas is committed to building a diverse culture where everybody feels they belong and can be themselves and thrive. Havas was integrated into Vivendi, a global leader in media, entertainment, and communications, in December 2017.

About Havas India

Havas India gathers the expertise of 25 agencies, specialized divisions, and strategic alliances across 3 verticals:

1. Havas Media Network – Havas Media, PivotRoots (integrated digital), Arena Media, Havas Market (e-commerce), Havas Play (sports, entertainment & content), CSA (technology, data & analytics), Havas Programmatic Hub (programmatic trading desk), Havas Analytics (data & analytics), Socialyse (pure-play social media); strategic alliances: Havas Media Tribes (out-of-home), Havas Play Gameplan (sports marketing), KlugKlug (influencer tech stack), and Havas Play SGSE (sports & entertainment)
2. Havas Creative Network – Havas Creative India (creative), Havas People India (talent communications & employer branding), Havas CX India (customer experience), ekino (technology), Think Design (UX/UI), Shobiz (experiential marketing), Shobiz Exhibits (exhibitions), Conran Design Mumbai (branding & design), GateOne (business & digital transformation management), PR Pundit Havas Red (PR).
3. Havas Health Network – Havas Life Mumbai (health & wellness communications).

With its unique Village model, it is an integrated network present across 3 Villages in Mumbai, Gurugram, and Bengaluru, and regional offices in Kolkata, New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Chennai, with over 2500+ professionals and associates.

As one of India’s fastest growing and agile networks, Havas India has bagged multiple new clients across verticals and won several prestigious awards over the last 2 years including the group being Great Place To Work® Certified™ twice in a row (Nov 2022 - Nov 2023 & Dec 2023 – Dec 2024), consistently being featured in the top 3 at R3 New Business League rankings, and winning at Campaign Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year awards, e4m Indian Marketing Awards 2023, ABBY One Show 2023, Campaign Women Leading Change awards, and more. Our CSR programs, DE&I initiatives, and being actively involved in various industry associations are what keep us invested as a network that has a clear mission of making a meaningful difference to brands, businesses, and people.

For more information, visit https://in.havas.com/ and follow Havas India on social media.

About Havas Life Sorento

Havas Life Sorento is India’s leading Health & Wellness marketing, communications, digital & health tech company. It’s a part of Havas Health & You, the world’s largest global health & wellness network & part of Havas India, which unites 18 companies and diversified services across Creative, Media, and Health verticals. Centered around Human Purpose, agency believes that brands rightly have a role to play in culture and make a positive impact on the wider world, thus creating meaningful brand platforms that don’t just grow, they grow well. It has significant depth of strategic, creative, and technology competence needed for modern marketing of health brands & businesses.

For more information, visit https://in.havas.com/havas-life/ and follow Havas Life Sorento on social media.

Key Responsibilities

• Write clear, engaging, persuasive copy for multiple formats — digital, social media, emailers, landing pages, websites, print collateral, scripts (video), etc.
• Collaborate with art directors, designers, strategists, account, and medical teams to ideate and execute integrated creative concepts.
• Adapt tone & voice according to brand guidelines, campaign needs, and audience (HCPs, patients, general public).
• Edit and proofread copy to high standards (grammar, style, consistency).
• Incorporate feedback from stakeholders (internal, clients) and produce revised versions within time constraints.
• Conduct content/market research and stay updated on industry trends, healthcare/pharma/wellness domain knowledge.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory/legal/medical review requirements when applicable.
• Support creative planning, ideation sessions, brainstorming, and pitch collateral.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Advertising, Life Sciences, or related field.
• 3 to 5 years of experience as a copywriter (ideally in agencies or the healthcare / regulated domain).
• Strong portfolio showcasing diverse work (campaign copy, social, digital, scripts, etc.).
• Excellent command of English — grammar, style, clarity.
• Ability to write with creative spark but also discipline (deadline‑driven).
• Good understanding of digital/social media content trends, formats, SEO/keywords (preferred).
• Ability to take feedback positively and iterate quickly.
• Good conceptual thinking — not just executing but improving briefs.
• Comfortable working across cross-functional teams.