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PRINCIPAL MEDICAL WRITER - REGULATORY AND MEDICAL WRITING
SUMMARY :
The Principal Medical Writer will collaborate with internal teams to lead, write, and manage completion of clinical regulatory documents. This role is for an individual contributor, reporting to the Executive Director (Head) of Regulatory and Medical Writing. This role includes responsibilities throughout the lifecycle of a document including working cross-functionally to interpret source information (including leading data interpretation meetings), leading key messaging meetings, writing content following US and international regulations (including Marketing Application Module 2 summary documents), conducting quality control (QC) reviews, resolving Quality Assurance (QA) audit findings, and working with Regulatory Operations for publishing and submission. The Principal Medical Writer will be assigned to projects that require advanced regulatory writing expertise compared with a Senior Medical Writer. This position may be fully remote; however, preference will be given to San Diego, CA based applicants.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Working with the Executive Director, Regulatory and Medical Writing, collaborate with internal teams (e.g., Clinical Development and Biostatistics) to lead, write, and manage complex clinical regulatory documents (e.g., clinical study reports, Investigator Brochures, clinical study protocols, briefing documents, marketing application summary documents [Module 2], etc.).
- Serve as Medical Writing department lead on multiple project / core teams.
- Function as subject matter expert within the department for assigned therapeutic / product areas.
- Responsible for planning (in collaboration with Global Project Management) and leading cross-functional teams to meet timelines for deliverables.
- Lead complex scientific key messaging / storyboarding cross-functional meetings, ensuring the messages are clear and consistent within and across documents.
- Understand, assimilate, and interpret sources of information with appropriate guidance.
- Ensure compliance with appropriate conventions, proper grammar usage, and correct format requirements, as needed (e.g., formatting, hyperlinking).
- Manage review cycles for documents; schedule and lead data interpretation meetings, comment resolution meetings, and other document-related meetings.
- Perform quality control (QC) reviews as necessary.
- Interact with Quality Assurance (QA) to resolve audit findings for specific documents.
- Maintain expert knowledge of US and international regulations, requirements, and guidance associated with preparation of regulatory documentation.
- Effectively coordinate with Regulatory Operations to ensure on-time preparation and publication of regulatory submission documents.
- Support Global Regulatory Lead with preparing information / responses requested by regulatory agencies.
- Mentor junior writers as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS :
A brief medical writing exercise may be requested at time of interview.
Please visit our website, , for more information about Ionis and to apply for this position; reference requisition #IONIS003498
Ionis offers an excellent benefits package!
The pay scale for this position is $126,339 to $160,340
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Salary : $126,339 - $160,340
