Associate Director – Medical Writing
Johnson & Johnson
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Raritan • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $137,000 - $235,750 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Leading compound/submission/indication/disease area writing teams independently.
- Preparing and finalizing all types of clinical documents, taking a proactive or lead role in terms of content and scientific strategy.
- Working with a high level of independence and taking a lead role on with respect to timing, scheduling, and tracking.
- Directly leading or setting objectives for others on team projects and tasks.
- Guiding or training cross‐functional team members on processes, best practices; coach or mentor more junior writers.
- Proactively identifying, contributing to and championing Medical Writing process improvements, internal standards, regulatory, and publishing guidelines, internal systems, tools, and processes.
- Responsible for planning and leading the writing group for assigned program.
Requirements
- University/college degree in a scientific discipline is required. Masters or PhD preferred.
- At least 10 years of relevant pharmaceutical/scientific experience; at least 8 years of relevant Medical Writing experience is required!
- At least 2 years of people management experience.
- Multiple therapeutic area experience preferred.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
- Expert project management skills, expert project/process improvement leadership.
- Expert leadership skills (influencing, negotiating, assertiveness, taking initiative, conflict management, change management).
- Strong people management skills.
- Ability to delegate responsibility to junior writers.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and develop effective partnerships with key business partners and customers.
- Ability to recognize how to best interpret, summarize, and present statistical and medical information to ensure quality and accuracy of content in complex document types independently.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- business accident insurance
- group legal insurance
- consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- savings plan (401(k))
- Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington - up to 56 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
medical writingclinical document preparationscientific strategyproject managementprocess improvementregulatory guidelinespublishing guidelinesstatistical interpretationcontent summarizationdocument quality assurance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationattention to detailcollaborationmentoringdelegationinfluencingnegotiatingassertivenessconflict management
Certifications
PhDMasters