Director, Medical Writing

Revolution Medicines is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on developing novel targeted therapies to inhibit frontier targets in RAS-addicted cancers.  The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) Inhibitors designed to suppress diverse oncogenic variants of RAS proteins, and RAS Companion Inhibitors for use in combination treatment strategies. As a new member of the Revolution Medicines team, you will join other outstanding Revolutionaries in a tireless commitment to patients with cancers harboring mutations in the RAS signaling pathway.

The Opportunity:

The Director of Medical Writing will be responsible for helping to develop strategic leadership and management of the medical writing function and involves both a people and project-orientated focus. This position reports to the Executive Director, Medical Writing. 

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• Driving for success in terms of people, projects, and productivity of medical writing, including all deliverables in alignment with corporate goals.

• Assuring the successful completion of high quality, timely and compliant document deliverables.

• Developing and implementing remediation plans/actions as needed.

• Providing medical writing leadership and guidance to full-time and contract medical writers.

• Assisting the Executive Director, Medical Writing, in developing budget and resource requirements for contract medical writers across multiple programs for each fiscal year.

• Demonstrating current and applied knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements and standards to ensure consistent application, adherence, and timely achievement of compliant deliverables.

• Serving as a primary subject matter expert for the planning, design, and preparation of clinical and regulatory documents.

• Authoring and reviewing clinical regulatory documents as needed, including assisting teams in responding to regulatory requests.

• Attracting, hiring, and retaining qualified contract medical writing professionals

• Providing an atmosphere of training, mentorship, and coaching to align with a strategic view of the role of medical writing in clinical development.

• Working within the medical writing function and cross-functionally to test and develop policies regarding the use of structure content management and/or generative AI as part of clinical regulatory document processes.

• Structuring resourcing to ensure an effective and cost-efficient approach to covering portfolio workload and goals while ensuring sustainability and alignment with corporate goals.

• Providing leadership across the medical writing department through strategic input, continual process improvement, and innovation in the development and implementation of a strategic view of regulatory documents.

• Collaborating and partnering with cross functional leaders and other staff across project management, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, clinical development, biostatistics, and other functions.

• Representing the medical writing department externally with academic institutions, industry groups/peers, vendors and other entities to develop expertise and drive industry standards and best practice.

• Doctoral degree and 5 years of regulatory medical writing experience.

• Master’s degree and 7 years of regulatory medical writing experience.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of regulatory medical writing experience.

• At least 3 years of experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources.

Preferred Skills:

• Academic preparation in life sciences or pharmacy with at least 8 years of related experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry.

• Experience in oncology.

• Strong understanding of drug development process.

• Experience with authoring major clinical regulatory documents, including protocols and amendments, study reports, and marketing application summaries.

• Experience with structured content management and/or generative AI use in the medical writing space preferred but not required. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JC1

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