Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is a premier company that is dedicated to enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We are a team of 100,000+ colleagues who share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement. Together, we work to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need.

This is a pharmacy medical writing manager role that will work within the Medical Communications team. If you have a BS in Pharmacy or PharmD with medical information writing experience specifically, plus the number of years of experience required listed below- we would love to talk with you! Must be able to start on January 6, 2025.

• Effectively manage staff, including interviewing, selection, job description preparation, professional development, goal setting, performance management, coaching, mentoring, employee counseling, and separations.
• Supervisor pharmacist medical writers
• Direct daily operations, field questions from the team and other departments, and resolve complex problems ensuring timely review of multiple deliverables.
• Serves as lead reviewer on large review projects. Collaborates with internal and external clients ensuring deliverables are met. Manages projects to deliver quality products in agreed upon timelines. Maintains knowledge and communicates current and updated guidelines and regulations to staff regarding clinical trials and document and/or other submission specifications.
• Support operational excellence by monitoring performance metrics and initiating process improvements within the department.
• Develop, document, and maintain business processes for document review through SOPs, WPDs, and guides.
• Interact frequently with internal personnel and outside representatives to resolve operational and scheduling issues.

• Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or a PharmD degree with previous medical writing experience in Medical Information content that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years).
• Preferred 1+ year of leadership responsibility in some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
• Experience example: Independently researches, writes, and edits standard medical information writing deliverables across various therapeutic areas. Independently writes more complex medical writing deliverables. Examples may include global or regional standard response documents, custom responses, and FAQs. Provides senior review of documents and training/mentoring for other writers.
• Active NC pharmacy license required.

• Ability to delegate tasks and facilitate completion of assignments
• Effective management skills, including the ability to create and modify budgets, project timelines, allocate resources, and forecast departmental workload
• Demonstrated innovation in developing new ideas related to process improvements
• Strong document and quality review knowledge
• Proficient in Microsoft (MS) Word and MS Excel
• Advanced organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills to manage several complex projects in parallel and manage rapidly changing priorities
• Ability to independently assess client needs and work with project team members in producing compliant deliverables
• Ability to independently learn new technologies
• Advanced editorial/proofreading skills
• Strong leadership to a diverse staff
• Ability to work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables
• Ability to exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results