Medical Writing

- Knowledge and Skills Development

- Maintain and enhance therapeutic area knowledge including disease state and compound(s) for assigned project(s).

- Exhibit flexibility in moving across document types, therapeutic areas, and compounds, depending on project assignment.

- Maintain and enhance knowledge of regulatory guidelines and publication guidelines.

- Possess overarching view of compound, therapeutic area, and external environment (including competitors) with ability to participate effectively in clinical planning, submission strategy planning, customer regulatory responses, and/or current awareness literature updates and reviews.

- Maintain and enhance the scientific communications skills to align with the audience needs and with the changes in technology and platforms.

- Knowledge Sharing

- Provide coaching to others by sharing technical information, giving guidance, answering questions. 

- Recognized for technical expertise in specific document development.

- Network with others (including other functions and regions) to identify and share best practices.

- Contribute to process improvements, suggesting opportunities where appropriate.

- Provide database and other tool (e.g., document management systems) expertise.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in a scientific, health, communications, technology health related field.

- Demonstrated experience in technical/ regulatory scientific writing.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- Successful completion of writing exercise (a writing exercise is required as part of the candidate evaluation process)

Other Information/Additional Preferences:

- Graduate degree with formal research component or in life sciences.

- Demonstrated mastery of verbal and written English skills in the medical, scientific or technical writing fields.

- Clinical pharmacology, therapeutic area, or other medical and scientific specific knowledge and experience specific to hiring area (e.g., neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular, immunology or endocrine expertise).

- Experience writing regulatory, clinical trial documents and/or publications

- Experience writing deliverables for Medical Affairs communications (slide decks, patient or HCP materials, etc)

- Experience in clinical development, clinical trial process or regulatory activities.

- Demonstrated project management and time management skills.

- Demonstrated high-level end-user computer skills (e.g., word processing, tables and graphics, spreadsheets, presentation and templates)."