ABOUT US

Values

The Aspire Scientific values define who we are and what we believe in. Everyone at Aspire lives and breathes our values, and our senior management team use them to guide every company decision. Rather than prescribing values, our values were developed and refined in collaboration with all our team, meaning that they truly represent the priorities of our people.

Culture

We care for our team by fostering a people-first culture of trust, transparency, and flexibility that actively encourages a healthy and sustainable work–life balance.

Talent

We recruit, invest in, and retain outstanding people. We provide the resources and ongoing training and development opportunities to nurture talented, stable teams who excel at what they do.

Excellence

We develop successful client partnerships through excellence in medical writing and communications, underpinned by therapy area knowledge, industry expertise, and a commitment to best practices.

The Aspire Way

Aspire Scientific was founded by experienced
medical writers with shared values.

After experiencing life in the medical communications (MedComms) industry, we quickly figured out what kind of agency we wanted to create. Our aim is to be the fairest and most considerate medical writing and communications agency to work for.

In turn, this allows us to attract and retain the most talented people in the industry, give them the freedom to deliver outstanding work, and establish successful, long-standing partnerships with our clients.

This genuine commitment to our people and to our clients is at the core of our business.

The ability to work truly flexibly

Our team can work from home or office and fulfil their hours when they want.
Contracted hours can be changed easily, without red tape.

The expectation of true work–life balance

We don’t expect our people to work over their contracted hours, and we actively encourage everyone to stick to this wherever possible.
On those rare occasions where working over hours is unavoidable, we award additional holiday for the extra hours worked. There is also the option to sell this back for 1.5x salary.

Up to 46 days' holiday for new full-time employees

28 days paid holiday (+ 8 bank holidays).
Additional leave can be purchased (up to 10 days per year).
We award additional leave for long service (>2 years) annually, up to a maximum of 5 extra days.

Involvement in the company

We believe that our people are what make Aspire great – so we involve everyone in the decisions about the business. For example, we distribute management team agendas and minutes to the whole team for review and invite feedback every time. For larger decisions, we make these a focus of company meetings, where we gather feedback from the whole team. We encourage everyone to have an active voice in the company, and this is only ever a conversation away.

Other Key Benefits

Highly competitive, regularly benchmarked salaries

Life assurance (paid out at 4x annual salary)

10% company pension contribution

Income protection

Annual bonus (profit and performance related)

Company phone and any other equipment needed to work from wherever you are

Health cash plan

Homeworking allowance

Aspire Scientific is officially Carbon Neutral+!

This means that we have offset 125% of all our carbon emissions between July 2022 and July 2023, as verified by Carbon Footprint Ltd. We continue to consider the environment in many aspects of our business – including carbon offsetting business flights, sourcing ethical and sustainable office supplies, and even providing sustainable prizes at company meetings.