Costello Medical

Senior Medical Writer

Costello Medical

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Massachusetts

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Salary

💰 $90,000 - $100,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • You will take a leading role across a variety of medical communication projects, working alongside a team of excellent colleagues to ensure that projects are delivered to an exceptionally high standard
  • Senior Medical Writers take a leading role across projects, providing strategic advice to clients, supervising the project team, and producing high-quality scientific content themselves
  • Ensure projects are delivered to an exceptionally high standard and in line with agreed timelines
  • Regular client communication, project planning, reviewing colleagues’ work, providing constructive feedback, scientific writing and contributing to business development by identifying new clients, writing proposals, and building and maintaining excellent client relationships
  • Work closely with Boston-based Team Heads and other senior colleagues in the US and globally
  • Work across different accounts spanning multiple disease areas and familiarize yourself with new information quickly

Requirements

  • A degree level or higher qualification in a scientific discipline (minimum GPA 3.3). We welcome applications from candidates with a diverse range of specialisms, including but not limited to; biology, chemistry, pharmacy and medicine
  • At least 2 years’ professional experience in a medical communications (medical affairs and/or publications) role outside of academia, ideally within an agency setting
  • Strong scientific writing skills with the ability to tailor writing style to different audiences
  • Project management skills sufficient to enable timely project delivery
  • Exceptional attention to detail and high degree of written accuracy
  • Excellent proficiency in written English and arithmetic
  • Experience with supporting junior colleagues with their learning and development
  • Excellent data presentation skills, including the ability to use Excel, PowerPoint and Word effectively and efficiently, to produce a professional, high standard of work
  • Sufficient technical and strategic knowledge to provide clients with recommendations on project content and approach
  • The capacity to maintain exceptional customer service and quality of deliverables under multiple competing demands
  • Experience in communicating directly with clients, including responding to different communication styles, as well as a proven ability to build robust and sustainable client relationships
  • The ability to motivate colleagues and take a leadership role in the delivery of project components
  • Right to work in the US independently from the company (visa sponsorship not provided); candidates on temporary visas such as OPT considered