Associate Director, Medical Writing
ImmunityBio, Inc.
Principal Medical Writer
Syneos Health
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex projects, as necessary.
- Represents the Medical Writing department on clinical study teams, at conferences, meetings and for presentations to the client regarding a writing project.
- Advises clients and study teams on data presentation and production strategies and on data to ensure that client objectives/expectations are met and quality standards are maintained.
- Develops good working relationships with internal and external colleagues.
- Manages medical writing activities associated with individual studies, coordinating medical writing activities within and across departments with minimal supervision.
- Develops or supports a variety of documents that include but not limited to: o Clinical study protocols and clinical protocol amendments; o Clinical study reports; o Patient narratives; o Clinical development plans; o IND submissions and annual reports; o Integrated summary reports; o NDA and (e)CTD submissions; o Investigator brochures, as well as; o Clinical journal manuscripts, clinical journal abstracts, and client presentations.
- Reviews statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, and for grammar, format, and consistency.
- Serves as peer reviewer providing review comments to give maximum clarity of meaning, accuracy relevance and to ensure that client objectives are met and overall quality standards are maintained.
- Adheres to established regulatory standards, including but not limited to ICH-E3 guidelines, as well as company SOPs, client standards, and company and/or client approved templates when completing medical writing projects, on-time and on-budget.
- Performs on-line clinical literature searches, as applicable.
- Continues professional development to keep pace with regulatory guidance and client expectations that affect medical writing and to improve skills.
- Understands budget specifications for assigned projects, working within the budgeted hours and communicating changes to medical writing leadership.
- Completes required administrated tasks within the specified timeframes.
- Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
- Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree with relevant writing experience or Bachelor of Arts degree (Social Sciences, English or Communications, preferred) with relevant scientific and/or medical knowledge and expertise.
- Extensive knowledge of English grammar with a familiarity with AMA style guide.
- Understanding of FDA and ICH regulations and guidelines strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated effective presentation, proofreading, and interpersonal, skills and ensure a team-oriented approach.
- Strong proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, and Internet.
- Ability to demonstrate a familiarity with principles of clinical research and to interpret and present clinical data and other complex information.
