Job Description
Job Title: Medical Writer
Location: Upper Gwynedd, PA, or Rahway, NJ
Duration: 12+ Months
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree/Master's degree with minimum 2 years of relevant experience in life sciences and process- and systems-related coordination
- PharmD or PhD preferred.
- Prior experience in Medical Affairs and/or medical content development preferred.
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders across geographies, therapy areas, and functions to meet business needs in a timely and compliant manner
- Experience working independently to design and produce slide decks within an easy-to-navigate framework that supports stakeholder use with external customers
- Attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
- Demonstrated success in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to learn on the fly while understanding and solving new problems that require a high level of independent judgement and initiative
- Ability to identify the most efficient and effective way to implement new solution
- Proven ability to innovate and think non-traditionally
- Strong business acumen and ability to judge whether ideas can lead to compliant and value-adding customer solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels within the organization
- Outstanding presentation and facilitation skills
- Strong leadership skills and proven ability to influence without authority
- Good interpersonal and networking skills
- Curiosity and willingness to constantly challenge the status quo
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and with global stakeholders to achieve business objectives
- Strong analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, interpersonal, and time-management skills
Preferred:
- Experience working at an affiliate, regional, and/or global level.
- Our team is responsible for creating external tools and resources for scientific exchange and in response to medical information inquiries.
Software: MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Word, Veeva Vault MedComms (Nice to have).
Key skills:
- Medical Content writing experience.
- Medical affair or medical writing background.
- TA-Oncology
Responsibilities
Medical Writer Contractor, Global Scientific and Value Content reports to the GSVC Team Lead and focuses on several key functions within the GSVC Team. This role directly supports the GSVC Team in developing resources (e.g., slide decks, Medical Information Letters [MILs], Verbal Response Documents [VRDs]) for use by the Field Medical Organization and Global Medical Information Staff, among other responsibilities.
This role participates in transformational initiatives in the fast-paced and dynamic environment of Value & Implementation Global Medical and Value Capabilities (V&I GMVC).
The Medical Writer Contractor is responsible for the following functions and activities:
- GSVC Creation and maintenance: With guidance from senior GSVC colleagues, develops and maintains GSVC resources in alignment with the GSVC Annual plans for GMSA Field Medical and Global Medical Information staff.
- Reviews GSVC materials to ensure they are relevant, scientifically accurate, and consistent with cited appropriate scientific literature, internal scientific information, and Company values and standards.
- Quality/Compliance: Critically analyzes and evaluates the rendering, display, and presentation of scientific and therapeutic data for use by internal stakeholders to respond to Medical Information Requests (MIRs).
- Innovative GSVC Practices and Procedures: Supports creative solutions for communicating GSC in multiple formats based on internal and external customer needs.
- Supports innovative design, consultation, and development for infographics or other digital media used for in the development of GSVC content based on internal and external customer needs.
- Serves as an advocate for changing customer needs for GSVC, particularly for GMSA Field Medical and Global Medical Information (GMI) staff.
- Leads their own specific tasks and responsibilities within a team, prioritizing time and effort towards important deliverables and producing high-quality work.
- Influences, partners and collaborates with other colleagues within the GSVC team.
- Collaborates effectively with peers and stakeholders to offer a new perspective on existing solutions while offering new innovations for the organization and communication of scientific content for GMSA Field Medical and GMI staff.
- Evaluates new technologies to best support GSVC organization needs.
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