[Hiring] Medical Writer - Senior Scientific Communications Specialist @Med Communications International

Role Description

The Senior Scientific Communications Specialist is a professional with scientific, clinical, and therapeutic area expertise, responsible for oversight of staff and client services. The position also provides scientifically accurate and balanced information to internal stakeholders, external healthcare professionals, and consumers in a way that supports business needs; is aligned with regulatory and compliance practices; and is consistent with Medical Affairs and brand team objectives.

Essential Functions

• Develop and review content for scientific documents including standard and custom responses, slide decks, dossiers, manuscripts, and other deliverables requested by the client.
• Demonstrate ongoing scientific expertise relevant to therapeutic areas, including products, disease state management, and emerging therapies.
• Integrate scientific expertise with knowledge of regulatory and compliance guidelines to ensure comprehensive review of materials submitted into approval process.
• Create and/or review medical affairs materials and promotional materials.
• Apply approved standards of style to created and maintained materials.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the use of content management systems as applicable.
• Update Standard Response format and content for integration into a global content management system.
• Respond to Medical Information Requests (via calls/web/emails/letters) and conduct appropriate scientific information exchanges with the requestors.
• Participate in scientific training as appropriate to support assigned brands.
• Comply with all guidelines, policies, legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
• Meet or exceed service levels and targets for internal and external customers.
• Participate in training & mentoring of new hires or staff changing support areas.
• Serve as a team lead for 1 or more Clients, therapeutic areas, workstreams, or brands.
• Coordinate with Client to schedule meetings and training sessions, and ensure that all team members meet all training requirements.
• Manage and distribute overall workload for a brand or therapeutic area.
• Coordinate, lead, and participate in workstreams, special projects, pilots, or other activities requested by the client.
• Serve as key contact for communications between the Client and Med Communications team.
• Maintain active role in Quality Assurance processes, including monitoring of performance indicators.
• Provide medical information support via multiple venues including virtual presentations and medical meeting booth coverage.

Qualifications

• Above average attention to detail, teamwork and initiative.
• Ability to interact with other departments within the company and be proficient in written and verbal communication.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word, and quickly able to learn new software.
• Demonstrated proficiency in drug information communication and management.
• Ability to apply regulatory and compliance guidelines to content development.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in pharmacy (PharmD preferred), advanced health care degree, or relevant, equivalent clinical experience.
• Fluent in English and Spanish - C1 or C2, Fluent or Professional Level.
• Two to four years of related experience in scientific content creation within the pharmaceutical industry, medical education, and/or academia.
• Demonstrated expertise in drug information communication and management preferred. Drug Information or Clinical Residency preferred.
• Prefer proficiency with Embase, Ovid, and content management systems.
• Prefer pharmaceutical industry writing experience including an understanding of FDA, legal, regulatory and compliance requirements with regards to medical affairs.

Work Environment

Remote - Med Communications International Lisbon, Portugal