Associate Director, Medical Writing

For the past 20 years, ProPharma has improved the health and wellness of patients by providing advice and expertise that empowers biotech, med device, and pharmaceutical organizations of all sizes to confidently advance scientific breakthroughs and introduce new therapies. As the world’s largest RCO (Research Consulting Organization), ProPharma partners with its clients through an advise-build-operate model across the complete product lifecycle. With deep domain expertise in regulatory sciences, clinical research solutions, quality & compliance, pharmacovigilance, medical information, and R&D technology, ProPharma offers an end-to-end suite of fully customizable consulting solutions that de-risk and accelerate our partners’ most high-profile drug and device programs.

Essential Functions: 

• In collaboration with other medical writing leadership, defines and manages medical writing and quality control resource needs, and communicates with recruiting and business development in a timely and effective manner.  

• Ensures appropriate communication on project- and program-related matters with other medical writing leadership, internal functional area heads, and internal resources/consultants.  

• With minimal supervision, manages program documents for assigned clients, such as protocols, protocol amendments, IBs, ICFs, patient narratives, and study reports, as well as more complex documents (e.g., PBRER, IND, NDA, BLA, MAA, eCTD submissionlevel documents). 

• With minimal supervision, provides medical writing project management oversight of client(s) to develop and maintain new and existing client relationships and manage medical writing deliverables and resourcing needs. 

• With minimal supervision, leads cross-functional coordination of resources (e.g., internal resources/consultants) to manage medical writing deliverables. 

• Manages direct line reports to ensure completion of medical writing deliverables on time and within budget. 

• Performs manager/peer review of documents written by direct line reports and other medical writers, as required. 

• Supervises and mentors less experienced medical writers on complex projects. 

• As needed, authors (writes/edits) high-quality medical writing deliverables (i.e., clinical, safety, regulatory, device, diagnostics, or disclosures documents) across all phases of clinical research and in various therapeutic areas including but not limited to: protocols, protocol amendments, study reports, patient narratives, IBs, ICFs, CEPs/CERs, DSURs, and plain language summaries, as well as more complex documents (e.g., PBRER, IND, NDA, BLA, MAA, eCTD submissionlevel documents). 

• Adheres to established regulatory standards/guidelines including but not limited to: ICH E3/E6(R2), EU MDR/IVDR, Company standard operating procedures, client standards, and Company- and/or client-approved templates. 

• Participates in and leads departmental initiatives (e.g., process improvement, lunch and learns, etc.). 

• Supports medical writing business development efforts (capabilities meetings, bids/contracts, proposal development, budget review, and bid defenses; travel may be required).  

• Ensures accurate billing of time to projects, provides oversight and ap