What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Medical Writer - FSP position at Parexel International Corporation?
Parexel is looking for a Senior Medical Writer located anywhere in the United States or Canada.Early Development / Translational Medical Writing experience required. Job Purpose : The Senior Medical Writer is responsible for the development of medical writing deliverables that support the clinical regulatory writing portfolio and works with guidance and oversight to achieve goals.Key Accountabilities : Leadership
- Leads cross-functional teams to draft agreed-upon scientific / medical contentthat addresses data interpretation, product claims, and internal / external questions
- Coordinates and delivers document kick-off meetings with contributors orrepresentatives from cross-functional groups
- Coordinates activities for document review, consensus meeting, qualitycontrol, and document finalization under aggressive timelines
- Ensures communication between members remains open and information isdisseminated appropriately
- Possible participation in the orientation and coaching of junior teammembersRegulatory Document Authoring
- Develops, coordinates, and oversees work plans for both individual andmultiple-document delivery, with all the needed tasks and subtasks, timelines, and assigned roles and responsibilities that enable the team to work efficiently and effectively to deliver all milestone tasks and documents within specified timelines
- Develops and maintains timelines in project plans, using project trackingapplication following standard templates
- With minimal guidance from senior members of writing staff, prepares clinicalstudy reports (CSRs), protocols, investigator brochures (IBs), submissiondata summaries, and other regulatory documents on investigational drugs in various stages of clinical development
- Manages messaging for consistency with historical information and inalignment with agreed-upon strategy
- Applies lean authoring principles as part of document development and,when applicable, structured content management (SCM) text libraries as partof authoring process
- Ensures adherence to standard content, lean authoring, and messagingacross team members
- Works as an active member of cross-functional teams representing MedicalWriting
- Conducts appropriate literature searches, as neededCompliance with Parexel Standards
- Complies with required training curriculum
- Completes timesheets accurately as required
- Submits expense reports as required
- Updates CV as required
- Maintains a working knowledge of and complies with Parexel processes,ICH-GCPs and other applicable requirementsSkills :
- Focused writing and editing following defined processes and templates
- Expert level authoring in MS Word, understanding of MS Word functionality, and works with Wordadd-ins that facilitate the management of fonts, styles, references, etc
- Follows directions, templates, and structured processes for delivering documents for review andfinalization
- Participates in Medical Writing department initiatives, as appropriate.
- Researches regulatory requirements to remain current in the regulatory landscape
- Shares lessons learned and best practices
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to move across therapeutic areas to support business continuity and resource needs
- Ability to manage the tasks, roles, responsibilities, and timing of the authoring team,internal / external contributors, and reviewers to facilitate document completion
- Customer focused with communication skills commensurate with a professional workingenvironment as well as effective time management, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Fluent in reading and writing American EnglishKnowledge and Experience :
- Minimum 5 years in writing regulatory documents supporting global filings
- Oncology and / or Infectious Disease / Vaccines experience
- Strong knowledge of regulatory guidelines / requirements and other regional guidelines such asthose from the EU and US
- Regulatory filing experience with a focus in authoring a broad set of different clinical documenttypes that support regulatory filings such as protocols, amendments, CSRs, and common technical document summary documents with a preference for experience with Module 2.7, 5.2, CSRs, protocols, amendments, and IBs
- Understanding of clinical development process from program planning to submission, includingclinical trial design as well as medical practices regarding procedures, medications, and treatment for different disease states
- Ability to facilitate review meetings, address feedback, and negotiate solutions / agreements
- Ability to interpret data and apply scientific knowledge to support regulatory document writing (i.e.,IBs, protocols, amendments, CSRs, clinical summaries) as well as build clinical or regulatory arguments in the absence of direct data using logic, analogy and therapeutic area science
- Ability to develop and use story boards to drive statistical output planning, link data results to keymessages, and develop templates as starting points for authoring
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with the ability to drive document content to supportlean authoring
- Experience working in collaborative authoring tools and review tools, project tracking applicationsand document management systems; managing workflows eApproval / esignatures; and familiarwith SCM and ability to author in an SCM environment using text libraries
- Flexibility in adapting to new tools and technology with capability of providing insight, alternatives,and suggestions based on previous experiences
- Capable of training writers / authors on the use of templates, guidelines, and toolsEducation : Bachelor's degree or equivalent (Life Science preferred)#LI-REMOTEEEO DisclaimerParexel is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status, which in the United States includes race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.