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Medical Writer

AT Perceptive
Perceptive

Medical Writer

Hyderabad, India

We're on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:

- Medical plan for you and your dependents.

- Personal Accident Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Critical illness cover

WEALTH:

- Salary structure and Flexi basket

- Provident fund of 12%

- Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs & trainings

Job Summary:

The Medical Writer will create, research, edit and coordinate the production of clinical documents related to independent review, including independent review charters, clinical data forms, manual case report forms, applicable reviewer training materials, project deviations and supplementary imaging reports, using available central content and templates. The medical writer will serve as a contact with clients.

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Key Accountabilities:

Information Content authoring

  • Gather, review, analyze, and evaluate relevant resources to prepare, develop, and finalize applicable clinical documents for submission to regulatory authorities.
  • Prepare, develop, and finalize applicable clinical documents not intended for submission to regulatory authorities.
  • Revise document drafts based on the review comments from team members to ensure inclusion of all relevant input.
  • Follow required standard operating procedures (SOPs), templates, guidelines, regulations, client instructions, and other processes, as applicable.
  • Perform literature searches/reviews as necessary to obtain background information and training for development of documents.
  • Draft and/or ghost-write clinical documents for more experienced medical writers.

Document Project Management

  • Serve as primary client contact for medical writing projects, negotiating deliverable timelines, and resolving project-related issues.
  • Serve as the medical writing representative on assigned project teams communicate content requirements,
  • Coordinate and conduct interdepartmental team reviews of draft and final documents,
  • Evaluate progress on tasks, identify issues and facilitate resolutions, and advance document development to approval, according to Perceptive and/or client guidelines/SOPs.
  • Distribute final documents to project team and client in a timely manner and to agreed timescales
  • Identify potential project challenges and raise with all relevant stakeholders, including changes in timelines or out of scope requests, and suggest possible resolution options.
  • Attend project team meetings as required.
  • Ensure appropriate filing of applicable project documentation.

Quality management

  • Uses appropriate methods and a systematic approach in the development, maintenance, control and distribution of documents.
  • Prepare documents for publishing readiness, ensuring document consistency and integrity
  • Ensure documentation adheres to FDA/EMA or other appropriate regulatory guidelines, and / or relevant SOPs.
  • Provide medical editing review of draft and final documents prepared by other medical writers before internal or external distribution. This includes both copyediting and content review.
  • Follow required standard operating procedures (SOPs), templates, guidelines, regulations, client instructions, and other processes, as applicable.

Relationship management

  • Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plan.
  • Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
  • Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.
  • Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

Other

  • Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.

Skills:

  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, presentational and written communication skills
  • Ability to consistently produce documents of high quality
  • A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
  • Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
  • Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
  • Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks
  • Shows initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities
  • Ability to identify and implement process improvements
  • Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
  • Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques, processes and documentation requirements that affect technology within the Life sciences domain
  • A self-starter and able to work under own initiative
  • Extensive clinical/scientific writing skills.
  • Proven ability of using Microsoft Office products (including Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
  • Good clinical/scientific writing skills.

Knowledge and Experience:

  • Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders
  • Experience of regulated environments
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies
  • Knowledge of clinical research, the drug development process, and industry guidelines and regulations, i.e., ICH-GCP.
  • Scientific background essential
  • Experience of writing regulatory documents in a contract research organization, pharmaceutical or biotechnology firm
  • Experience in the conduct of clinical research/medical communications.
  • Proven ability of using Microsoft Office products (including Word, Excel & PowerPoint)

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline (Science, pharmacy, nursing, or other health-related discipline preferred etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
  • English: Fluent (written and verbal)

Come as you are.

We're proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job ID: Calyx-JR103536
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • Dental Insurance
    • HSA
    • FSA
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Adoption Leave
    • Adoption Assistance Program
  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Leadership Training Program
    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Access to Online Courses
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Unconscious Bias Training
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program