OneTrust

Director, Regulatory Medical Writing, Oncology

OneTrust

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Titusville • New Jersey • United States

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Salary

💰 $164,000 - $282,900 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Assume overall accountability for decision-making within the organization or TA, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
  • Proactively identify potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them, enhancing project outcomes and minimizing obstacles.
  • Recognize and resolve complex problems related to the development and implementation of new service offerings and deliverables, working independently to find effective solutions.
  • Write or provide guidance to other writers on all types of clinical, regulatory, and safety documents, taking a proactive lead in content and scientific strategy with complete independence.
  • Represent the MW department with decision-making authority in the R&D organization, leading discussions with senior cross-functional colleagues and external partners to enhance coordination between departments.
  • Directly lead or set objectives for team projects and tasks, including leading program-level, submission, indication, and disease area writing teams independently.
  • Serve as a liaison between team members and senior leadership within a TA or sub-function, facilitating effective communication and collaboration.
  • Develop, implement, and drive the institutionalization of departmental process improvements and best practices in collaboration with relevant Communities of Practice and Business Process Owners, championing these initiatives to cross-functional team members.
  • Mentor, support, and coach staff at all levels on document planning, processes, and content, providing peer review as needed.
  • Maintain and disseminate knowledge of industry, company, and regulatory guidelines within relevant company systems.
  • Participate in industry standards working groups to represent MW and ensure alignment with best practices.
  • Accountable for setting the strategy and operational execution for their portfolio(s) within the Medical Writing (MW) team, in close consultation and accordance with the Delivery Unit (DU) Head and in line with R&D priorities and TA objectives.
  • Recognized expert medical writer for any document within and across TAs.
  • Accountable for MW resource management and allocation within their portfolio(s).
  • Can represent MW DU Head or department at high-level and cross-functional TA meetings and has significant independent decision-making authority.
  • Can step in for DU Head in case of absence.
  • Is a major contributor to multiple deliverables for the function, TA, or DU.
  • Provides leadership to their writing teams by helping attract and retain top talent, developing team members, and ensuring organizational effectiveness, transparency, and communication.
  • Responsible for creating an environment where employees feel engaged and empowered, and take pride in their role, responsibilities, and deliverables.
  • Takes on additional major responsibility with minimal supervision, operating at an expert level with accountability for the highest levels of quality.

Requirements

  • A university/college degree in a scientific discipline is required.
  • An advanced degree (eg, Masters, PhD, MD) is preferred.
  • Minimum of 14 years of relevant pharmaceutical/scientific experience is required.
  • Minimum of 12 years of relevant clinical/medical writing experience is required.
  • Minimum of 5 years of people management experience is required.
  • Experience providing strategic and operational leadership to medical writing teams across all levels, with responsibility for setting vision, driving functional excellence, mentoring leaders, and ensuring the successful delivery of high‑quality, compliant clinical and regulatory documentation across the portfolio.
  • Expertise in project management and process improvement is required.
  • Strong decision-making skills, strategic thinking, agility, broad vision is required.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Expert time management for self, direct reports (if applicable), and teams.
  • Ability to delegate responsibility to other medical writers.
  • Expert ability to lead and influence by example and stay focused (positive).
  • Demonstrate integrity.
  • Expert ability to motivate and develop best in class talent pipeline.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate internally and develop effective partnerships with key business partners and customers.
  • Creates a positive Credo-based work environment for staff members.
  • Shows openness to new ideas and fosters organizational learning.
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))
  • annual performance bonus
  • vacation – 120 hours per calendar year
  • sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for Colorado – 48 hours; for Washington – 56 hours
  • holiday pay, including floating holidays – 13 days per calendar year
  • work, personal and family time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
  • parental leave – 480 hours within one year of birth/adoption/foster care of a child
  • bereavement leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member; 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
  • caregiver leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
  • volunteer leave – 32 hours per calendar year
  • military spouse time-off – 80 hours per calendar year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
medical writingclinical documentationregulatory documentationproject managementprocess improvementstrategic leadershipoperational executiondocument planningcontent strategyresource management
Soft Skills
decision-makingstrategic thinkingagilitycommunicationattention to detailtime managementdelegationleadershipmotivationcollaboration
Certifications
advanced degree (Masters, PhD, MD)