Senior Medical Writer, based in New Zealand ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers. Role: Senior Medical Writer Location: Home-based in New Zealand and UK As a global provider of drug development solutions, our work is serious business.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun while you do it. With our vision to be the partner of choice in drug development, we hire only the best and brightest in the industry. Are you one of them? We are looking for conscientious, resilient, and inspiring individuals to join our team. As a Senior Medical Writer (SMW) , your primary responsibility will be to provide scientific and medical/clinical writing support as part of a dedicated team servicing an assigned client.
While the ability to work independently is key, the SMW will work closely with the Scientific Manager (ie, Scientific Director) and other members of the client account team to help ensure the timely delivery of high-quality and scientifically/medically accurate assigned projects. As a Senior Medical Writer, your review of junior writers’ work will also be a key part of this role. Your participation in internal company initiatives, as required, offers additional potential opportunities for growth.
The Role As a Senior Medical Writer (SMW), prior in-depth experience with background researching, developing, and writing for the diverse array of deliverables within medical publications and medical communications is expected and will be an integral foundation for this role. The SMW role will fall broadly across the following approximate allocations (individual client account teams may have, from time to time, specific needs that may alter these allocations as may be necessary/required).
The vast majority of your time will be devoted to content development and writing, from inception to delivery, including but not limited to: responsibility for the accurate interpretation of clinical data (e.g., from clinical study reports, safety summaries, biostatistical tables, published articles, etc), and its accurate, concise adaptation to meet assigned projects’ stated objectives all compliance requirements for medical publications and medical communications, as relevant and appropriate (e.g., authorship guidelines, journal requirements, client confidential materials, etc) representing assigned work at internal and external (client) meetings as required (e.g., project status, author interactions, client publication committee meetings, etc) understanding and contributing to client publication and communication plans as required (e.g., impact on project timelines, appropriate congress and journal venues for assigned client/therapy area, relevance to client drug development planning, etc) Some of your time will provide an opportunity to assist in the management of medical writing resources, including but not limited to, responsibility for: monitoring and helping to manage the medical writing workload, including for junior/other writers, as required collaboration with the Scientific Manager (ie, Scientific Director) and account managers to help ensure adherence to agreed-upon timelines (e.g., project status reports, proactive flagging of problems, resource limitations/availability, etc) assisting in the onboarding and mentoring of new and junior medical writers, as required There may be on occasion opportunity to assist the SM (SD) and/or GMC Senior Leadership in business development activities such as background research and writing support for new business proposals What you need Advanced degree, preferably PhD but PharmD and MD may also be considered Prior relevant experience in a medical publications/medical communications agency preferred Minimum of 3-5 year