Principal Medical Writer

Description

Can you reach people with just a few words?

You express all of your ideas effortlessly, and have the skills to distill other peoples ideas into their best possible form. Your messaging is not only clear and concise, but your medical expertise allows you to convey high-level scientific knowledge in meaningful and comprehensible communications. Does this sound like you? A Principal Medcial Writer role with Cadent Medical Communications may be the perfect place for you.

In this role you will join a global team of Medical Communications experts specializing in high-science, high-touch peer-to-peer medical communications. The company excels in translating complex science into compelling messages that deliver value and action, building relationships and collaboration between the biopharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals.

As part of this team as a Principal Medical Writer, you will be a critical contributor within our Medical Affairs and Publications practice. You will have the opportunity to take a leading role in development of high-quality and strategic peer-reviewed publications that deliver on our clients’ science and business strategy. As such, you will ensure the strategic alignment, accuracy, credibility, and quality of the manuscripts, literature reviews, abstracts, posters, slide decks, and other written pieces you develop with author direction. In addition, you will help grow and lead a team of junior medical writers in support of 1 or more clients and therapy areas. 

Cadent Medical Communications specializes in high science, high touch peer to peer medical communications. The company excels in translating complex science into compelling messages that deliver value and action. Cadent builds relationships and collaboration between the biopharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals.

(Duties may include, but not limited to all or some of the following)

• Understand and champion scientific and communication strategies for 1 or more clients
• Serve as subject matter expert in multiple disease states
• Develop scientific content, including:
• Conduct of necessary background research
• Working with clients, other team members, and external authors to kick off and determine outline for projects
• Developing slides, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, or other content forms
• Critical review, with strong attention to detail and good proofreading skills, including review of drafts created by junior medical writers
• Ensuring that all author and stakeholder feedback is accurately and appropriately incorporated
• Ensuring accuracy and rigor, including provision of a full reference pack and annotations for fact checking
• Preparing materials for legal and regulatory review as necessary
• Actively participate in internal and external meetings representing our work to clients, authors, and other external stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to internal or client-directed specifications and templates for deliverables
• Train new joiners and fellow colleagues as and when required
• Work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, team-oriented environment, managing multiple projects in support of 1 or more clients at any given time
• Perform additional tasks as assigned, including participation in advisory boards, development of slides for the meeting and/or summaries, or travel to scientific meetings (when safe to do so)
  
  

Essential Requirements

• PhD, PharmD, M. Pharm, or other advanced professional degree in the health sciences
• 4 to 6 years of professional medical writing experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with account teams, other writers, editors, physicians, and clients
• Ability to communicate medical/technical information to a wide variety of audiences and formats
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently prioritize multiple tasks and provide effective direction to others; can quickly evaluate the resources necessary to accomplish a goal and put those into action
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Knowledge of good publication practice guidelines
• Industry certifications demonstrating knowledge of compliant publication planning and execution (eg, CMPP) are a plus but not required
  
  

At Cadent Medical Communications, our workplace is flexible, family-oriented and places high importance on work-life balance. The engaging and rewarding nature of the work that we do is evident in the enthusiasm employees bring to the office every day. Overall, Cadent has a commitment to integrity, a commitment to client satisfaction and a commitment to employee satisfaction and development.

Cadent Medical Communications is part of Syneos Health Communications, a purpose-built collective of agencies focused on supporting health and biopharmaceutical innovators. We work in scalable, collaborative teams that partner across disciplines and geographies to deliver integrated communications strategies that accelerate brand performance. In today’s fast-changing and complex environment, success lies in making connections: between science, emotion, and technology; between data, design and human insight. We’re able to make those connections because our medical communications, digital, advertising, public relations, data science, research and market access specialists work closely with each other and with healthcare experts, including physicians, pharmacists and advocates. Together, we are the connected healthcare partner tapping rich insights to drive innovation, change behavior and pioneer a new era of accountable marketing.

Syneos Health Communications is powered by Syneos Health, a global professional services organization designed to help the biopharmaceutical industry shorten the distance from lab to life.

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