Senior Medical Writer (Regulatory) - Multi-Sponsor

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
 

Our Medical Writing team is growing and we are looking for a Senior Medical Writer in Europe.

Discover Impactful Work:

Lead ambitious initiatives that craft the future of clinical research. Your expertise will enable us to deliver flawless Regulatory Medical Writing documents, such as protocols, CSR, and Investigator Brochures, ensuring outstanding quality and compliance.

A Day in the Life:

• Serves as primary author who writes and provides input on routine documents such as clinical study reports and study protocols, and summarizes data from clinical studies.

• May research, write or edit complex clinical and scientific and program level documents, including IBs, INDs, and MAAs.

• Reviews routine documents prepared by junior team members. May provide training and mentorship for junior writers and program managers on document preparation, the use of software for document development, document types, regulatory requirements, and therapeutic area knowledge.

• Ensures compliance with quality processes and requirements for assigned documents. Provides input on and independently develops best practices, methods and techniques for achieving optimal results, including various client specific processes.

• May assist in program management activities. Identifies and resolves out-of-scope activities. Duties could include developing timelines, budgets, forecasts and contract modifications.

• Represents the department at project launch meetings, review meetings, and project team meetings.

Keys to Success:

• Strong project management skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills including problem solving and negotiation

• Able to perform a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification; Advanced degree preferred

Experience:

• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).

• Experience working in the pharmaceutical/CRO industry preferred

• Additional qualifications in medical writing (AMWA; EMWA; RAC) advantageous.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Excellent data interpretation and medical writing skills, including grammatical, editorial, and proofreading skills

• Strong project management skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills including problem solving

• Strong negotiation skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong presentation skills

• Significant knowledge of global, regional, national and other document development guidelines

• In-depth knowledge in a specialty area such as preclinical, therapeutic, regulatory submissions, communications, etc.

• Great judgment and decision-making skills

• Excellent computer skills and skilled with client templates; Good knowledge of document management systems and other relevant applications (e.g. Excel, Outlook)

Benefits:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

What We Offer:

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package b