A Senior Medical Writer will create research edit and coordinate the production of clinical documents related to independent review including independent review charters clinical data forms manual case report forms applicable reviewer training materials project deviations and supplementary imaging reports either independently or using available central content and templates. The medical writer will serve as a contact with clients.
Key Accountabilities:
Information Content authoring
Gather review analyze and evaluate relevant resources to prepare develop and finalize applicable clinical documents for submission to regulatory authorities
Prepare develop and finalize applicable clinical documents not intended for submission to regulatory authorities
Revise document drafts based on the review comments from team members to ensure inclusion of all relevant input
Follow required standard operating procedures (SOPs) templates guidelines regulations client instructions and other processes as applicable
Perform literature searches/reviews as necessary to obtain background information and training for development of documents.
Draft and/or ghostwrite clinical documents for more experienced medical writers
Act as support to others in the team to ensure that all documentation is accurate and encompasses all relevant information based on Stakeholder needs.
Initiate and participate in departmental or interdepartmental process improvement and training initiatives including development of departmental SOPs central content and general guidelines for clinical documentation and workflow procedures.
Initiate and participate in marketing initiatives such as white paper abstract poster and manuscript development
Document Project Management
Serve as primary client contact for medical writing projects negotiating deliverable timelines and resolving projectrelated issues.
Serve as the medical writing representative on assigned project teams communicate content requirements lead/facilitate authoring team meetings to agree on expectations.
Coordinate and conduct interdepartmental team reviews of draft and final documents.
Evaluate progress on tasks identify issues and facilitate resolutions and advance document development to approval according to Perceptive and/or client guidelines/SOPs.
Distribute final documents to project team and client in a timely manner and to agreed timescales.
Identify potential project challenges and raise with all relevant stakeholders including changes in timelines or out of scope requests and suggest possible resolution options.
Attend project team meetings as required
Ensure appropriate filing of applicable project documentation
May provide project management of contractual and financial aspects
Relationship management
Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan
Deals with problems and issues managing resolutions corrective actions lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information
Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management
Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships
Quality management
Uses appropriate methods and a systematic approach in the development maintenance control and distribution documents
Prepares documents for publishing readiness ensuring document consistency and integrity
Ensures documentation adheres to FDA/EMA or other appropriate regulatory guidelines and / or relevant SOPs
Provides medical editing review of draft and final documents prepared by other medical writers before internal or external distribution. This includes both copyediting and content review
Follows required standard operating procedures (SOPs) templates guidelines regulations client instructions and other processes as applicable
Makes changes to and controls the updates and distribution of quality standards
Relationship management
Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan
Deals with problems and issues managing resolutions corrective actions lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information
Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management
Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships
Others: Carryout any other reasonable duties as reqested
Skills:
Excellent interpersonal verbal presentational and written communication skills
Ability to consistently produce documents of high quality
A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
Must have the ability to work methodically in a fastpaced timesensitive environment
Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks
Shows initiative and selfconfidence is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities
Ability to identify and implement process improvements
Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
Ability to negotiate on behalf of medical writing to ensure resources timelines and expectations are aligned
Maintains an uptodate awareness of trends tools technology techniques processes and documentation requirements that affect technology within the Life sciences domain
A selfstarter and able to work under own initiative
Proven ability of using Microsoft Office products (including Word Excel & Powerpoint)
Knowledge and Experience
Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders
Experience of regulated environments
Understanding of Agile methdologies
Experience of working in and knowledge of the life sciences sector
Solid knowledge of industry guidelines and regulations i.e. ICH GCP
Experience of regulatory documents in a contract research organization pharmaceutical or biotechnology firm or some experience in the conduct of clinical research/medical communications
Solid Professional experience in the same or very similar role
Experience using data analysis tools (e.g. Tableau Power BI) desirable
Proven ability of using Microsoft Office products (including Word Excel & Powerpoint)
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Science pharmacy nursing or other healthrelated discipline preferred etc.) or a related study or equivalent projectrelated experience
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