Associate Medical Director - Healthcare/Pharma

ONLY PHD, MBBS AND MD CANDIDATES NEED TO APPLY

What is a typical day at work like-

- Ensure timely production of high quality documents (manuscripts, abstracts, short communications, review articles) for publications in journals or for presentation in meetings and other written communication material supporting pharmaceutical brands, research or educational activities, and other business needs

- Review work done by team members and provide appropriate feedback

- Coach and mentor team members by conducting training activities

- Lead client calls from a scientific perspective

- Participate in strategic publication planning activities

- Participate in RFIs/RFPs and client pitches

- Manage a team of writers, if assigned

- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including authors & KOLs

- Act as document specialist and provide intellectual input across document types

- Develop and maintain necessary templates, formats and styles to ensure that documents generated meet industry, internal, and client requirements

At least 6-7 years of publications or medcomms writing experience, preferably within a pharmaceutical company or agency environment

- Superior English language skills, both verbal and written

- Advanced knowledge of clinical research and the drug development processes, as well as ICMJE, GPP3, and reporting guidelines

- Proven skills in writing and editing documents for publications, including interpretation and summarization of complex clinical data across multiple studies and phases

- Knowledge of methods and techniques for analysis and presentation of statistical results

- Excellent literature reviewing capabilities

- Excellent data interpretation and presentation skills

- Clear, concise scientific style of writing with a high level of attention to detail

- Ability to work under tight timelines

- CMPP certification or willingness to prepare for and pass the CMPP exam

- Expert user of Microsoft Office suite and EndNote.

- US/UK education or work experience will be an added advantage