What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Medical Editor position at Octagon?
About Us
Virgo Health works for pharmaceutical, biotech, and device companies to inform and educate healthcare professionals about the latest developments in clinical research and therapeutic approaches. We leverage our meetings, digital, and interactive expertise to understand what's easy and relevant for healthcare professionals to engage with. We tailor our content and design it to offer choice and active participation. Real, relevant, and human.
Job Overview
The senior medical editor assists in the development and delivery of high-quality medical education materials. This diverse role encourages best practices and use of health education processes across editorial services and the wider team.
Core Responsibilities
Editing
- Copyedits, styles, and proofreads all materials, including slide decks, scripts, and communications
- Fact-checks materials
- Owns the detail of daily work on the brand : primarily responsible for creating and maintaining style / claim sheets for their brands and communications reporting (ie, timelines)
- Prepares materials and references for medical-legal review; manages upload of files and tagging / linking in Veeva Vault
- Ensures all written communication produced aligns with Virgo quality and house style / client style (as appropriate)
- Acquires figure / table permissions and maintains permissions tracker
- Ensures adequate therapy area knowledge to actively interrogate copy and assist team in identifying errors
- Sets up and ensures maintenance of appropriate filing systems and databases and delivers specific training as appropriate
- Ensures adherence to editorial SOPs and proactively recommends improvements to teams (share best practice)
- Undertakes specific writing projects, eg, development of biographies, and where appropriate incorporates basic client / author comments (under the direction of a medical writer)
- Undertakes advanced literature and broader internet searches to support medical writers and liaises with external services as required to initiate more complex searches
- Provides on-site meeting support as appropriate
- Assists account teams in compiling the results to program evaluations completed at live programs
Relationship Building
Team Working
Project Management
Experience / Skills Required
Virgo Characteristics
Key Performance Indicators
Salary : $85,000-$110,000
Virgo is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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IPG DXTRA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. IPG DXTRA recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
Minimum Salary : 85000.00 Maximum Salary : 110000.00 Salary Unit : Yearly
Salary : $85,000 - $110,000
