Associate Director, Clinical Regulatory Writing

Job Description
Role holders provide strategic leadership and communications expertise to clinical drug programs. They author clinical-regulatory documents and provide critical review to achieve high quality standards. They represent the skill on drug and non-drug projects.

Typical Accountabilities
The Clinical Regulatory Writing team provides expert communications leadership to drug projects and authors strategically important clinical-regulatory documents that are label focused and align with project strategies, regulatory requirements, and communications best-practices. We support the Company’s core therapeutic areas in all phases of clinical development. Our vision is to be an industry leading organization driving strategic communication excellence to achieve successful submissions and approvals.
The Clinical Regulatory Writing Associate Director is expected to:
• Independently manage clinical regulatory writing activities across a portfolio of work.
• Author clinical-regulatory documents within a program by ensuring that relevant regulatory, technical and quality standards are achieved, and that relevant processes and best practice are applied.
• As part of a clinical delivery or submission team, provide strategic communications leadership to projects, establish communication standards and best practice, and continuously advocate for quality and efficiency.
• When acting as a submission lead, drive the development of the clinical Submission Communication Strategy (cSCS).
• Lead internal/external authoring teams and provide strong partnership with vendor medical writers to ensure delivery to time and quality.
• Drive the clinical interpretation of complex data and information and condense it into clear, concise and accurate messages that address customer information requirements.
• Be a strategic thinker and demonstrate strategic review capabilities.
• Proactively collaborative with other functions at the program level.
• Support the development of others in Clinical Regulatory Writing.
• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence from a communications leadership perspective, including representing the skill on drug and non-drug projects, as the need arises.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential
• Life Sciences degree in an appropriate discipline.
• Significant medical writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO.
• Ability to advise and lead communication projects.
• Understand drug development and communication process from development, launch through life cycle management.
• In depth knowledge of the technical and regulatory requirements related to the role.

Desirable

Advanced degree in a scientific discipline (Ph.D).

Date Posted

06-jun-2024

Closing Date

05-jul-2024

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.