Intern - Medical Communications

An internship with Cadent Medical Communications gives you the opportunity to work side by side with passionate problem solvers on powerful and fulfilling work. Our collaborative culture inspires you to learn from the expertise surrounding you and to share your own knowledge and experience with colleagues. You’ll be asked to speak up and challenge the status quo – you have a voice and will be encouraged to use it.

This opportunity

Cadent specializes in high science, high touch peer to peer medical communications. The company excels in translating complex science into compelling messages that deliver value and action. Cadent builds relationships and collaboration between the biopharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals.

An internship with Cadent will give you the opportunity to experience what it is like to work at a healthcare communications agency. During your time with Cadent , you will gain valuable skills for both client services, project management, and pharmaceutical development lifecycle that will prepare you for a future in the medical communications industry.

To culminate the experience, you will be given the opportunity to present to the medical communications team at Cadent on a topic relevant to the pharmaceutical industry. During this presentation, you will pull from the 12-week experience to demonstrate your understanding of scientific and medical communications.

• Serving as an active member of the account team, learning the fundamentals of account management, understanding what “good” account management looks like, and how to confidently provide client service support
• Contributing to roles that bring projects to completion effectively & efficiently cross-functionally, under the supervision of an account team member
• Completing day-to-day tasks associated with running projects, including understanding and capturing internal and client feedback, assisting with collateral updates, writing meeting recaps, creating project briefs, updating status reports, learning to develop project scopes, budgets and timelines, organizing files on the agency server, daily administrative tasks, etc.
• Collaborating successfully with all agency departments, including ensuring teams are prepared for internal and external meetings, coordinating meetings, and follow-ups on outstanding items
• Participating in team meetings and, as appropriate, in client presentations
• Collaborating with fellow interns to complete a special project and presenting to the executive leadership team
• Seeking out increased opportunity for learning and exposure to aspects of the agency world that intrigue you most
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Current pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or similar
• Past internship experience or project work in Communications, Advertising
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Teams), and email
• Above-average attention to detail, effective oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage a workload consisting of several concurrent projects or tasks
• Ability to stay organized, multi-task, and be proactive
• Can collaborate well with internal team members
• Strong problem-solving skills

Candidates must be a minimum of a Rising Junior and currently enrolled full time in Spring/Summer or Spring/Fall ’26 semesters.

The Commercial Summer Intern Program runs from May 18, 2026 to August 7, 2026 and all positions will work full time (up to 40 hours per week).

The anticipated hourly rate for this position is $24-26 but may vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role.

At Cadent, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Cadent is a US Medical Communications company with employees located across the US. The home office is in New York City. Cadent specializes in high science, high touch peer to peer medical communications. The company excels in translating complex science into compelling messages that deliver value and action. Cadent builds relationships and collaboration between the biopharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals.

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