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Senior Medical Writer
Roche India – Roche Services & solutions
Hyderabad
Roche is a stable and innovative biotechnological company offering exceptional career paths and great benefits for fresh graduates and outstanding professionals. We are continuously expanding, looking for new talents to join our transforming Roche Services & Solutions Center. We offer a flexible working framework (2-office days/week).
The Global Digital Hub growing business line within Roche Services & Solutions Center. Our main purpose is to strengthen the digital capabilities of Roche globally by supporting central initiatives with Social Media Management, Brand Support, Digital Publishing Services, Marketing Automation, Content Creation, and Creative Design.
Position Summary
As a member of the Global Digital Hub Team, you will work to ensure fulfillment of the Global Digital Hub long term outcomes and strategy as well as excellent delivery of content creation priorities. As a Senior Medical writer, you will support the growing medical writing team within Roche Services & Solution Centre in developing medical writing & digital content solutions for our business partners across various therapeutic areas and play a crucial role in business development and stakeholder engagement
As a Senior Medical Writer, you will be at the forefront of creating high-quality content for medical communications tailored solutions. The Senior Medical Writer is an experienced subject matter expert, advisor and leader within the chapter. Focussing on specific therapeutic areas in dedicated service teams, Senior Medical Writers are responsible for training and mentoring medical writers, copywriters and content editors within their assigned team - also driving cross-team upskilling and knowledge transfer to grow the capabilities of the chapter overall. This critical position has a global scope and a key component of the role involves acting as a trusted advisor and knowledgeable consultant to our business teams on the topic of medical writing and communications.
The Opportunity
Apply your broad knowledge of medical writing for the pharmaceutical industry, you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including medical, scientific, and commercial partners, to understand client needs and develop tailored and effective scientific content for digital implementation
Manage multiple concurrent projects across a range of therapeutic areas, delivering on agreed timelines
Ensuring that the content, format and structure comply with regulatory and other guidelines, as well as with Roche best practices
Monitor assigned tasks and manage own workload, taking ownership and anticipating capacity issues and potential solutions
As a trained and experienced senior medical writer you will provide mentorship and technical coaching to other medical writers in the team, as well as new writers joining the team
As a senior medical writer you will be a subject matter expert in pharmaceutical and medical communications as well as lead the team in assigned, specific therapeutic areas.
Key responsibilities:
Your role will require taking responsibility and ownership for upholding the highest standards of scientific accuracy, quality and compliance with all applicable industry guidelines, local and international
Exercise excellent interpersonal/communication skills for effective and professional liaison with the internal team, clients, healthcare professionals and other key stakeholders and to obtain comprehensive briefs and responses to queries
Diligently keep up to date with, and follow, all applicable company standard operating procedures (SOPs)
Effectively partner with customers to understand their business needs and how content creation will contribute to their success
Quickly and effectively engage resources, utilizing both formal and informal networks to meet desired goals. Work closely with the Digital Hub Chapter Leads and Business Partners
Support and lead cross-functional initiatives, maintaining a global perspective even when supporting departmental efforts
Makes recommendations to improve service and responsiveness to business partners
Who you are:
We are looking for dynamic individuals who are highly involved and passionate about medical writing and willing to learn more about building up content strategies. As a Senior Medical Writer you are a person who upholds the highest standards of scientific accuracy, quality and compliance and you are ready to provide mentorship and technical coaching for other medical writers.
Further requirements:
Advanced degree in a biological science or medical discipline
7+ years of medical writing experience, ideally within an agency setting
Native-level written and spoken English, additional languages an advantage
Excellent attention to detail, consistency, clarity and scientific rigor
Customer-service mentality & can-do attitude
Experience with the standard IT-applications, preferably including Google suite
Accountable, focused, precise attitude
Continuous improvement and growth mindset
Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, ability to prioritize tasks
Capability to effectively coordinate people across multiple organizations and countries
Ability to manage key global stakeholders. Strong stakeholder management and customer-centric skills
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.