Manager, Medical Writing - Groton, United States - Pfizer

Pfizer

Verified Company

Groton, United States

5 days ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

ROLE SUMMARY Understands the principles of scientific writing, writing with the audience in mind, and conveying messages in a clear and concise manner.

Analyzes, interprets, and distills data and other information to create documents.- Applies comprehensive knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and corporate policies to assess document requirements and identify information gaps or other potential issues.

Takes appropriate risks to resolve any identified issues.- Is facile with innovative problem solving

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES- Independently authors moderately complex documents compliant with relevant internal processes and standards as well as external regulatory guidance.- Develops and maintains project timelines.

Delivers assigned documents on or before deadline, alerting project teams and line management in a timely manner of any anticipated delays, information gaps, or potential shortcomings in quality.- Communicates Medical Writing's position on resource and timeline needs for assigned documents to project team members.- Identifies potential areas for process improvements and possible solutions and communicates them to line management or appropriate functional line.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree, preferably in a life science discipline.- BS/BA +5 years, MS/MA +3 years, PhD +0 years of experience in medical writing or related field.- Understanding of the role of each member of cross-functional team.- Ability to collaborate successfully with all levels and roles in cross-functional, global teams.- Ability to manage documents of simple complexity and/or limited variety.- Ability to multi-task and work effectively under pressure, with strong organizational and project management skills.- Adapts to change as needed.- Ability to communicate with teams to set realistic timeline expectations and then monitor, communicate progress/issues, and deliver against milestones.- Ability to identify complex problems that require management or cross-functional input for resolution in timely manner- Chooses between multiple options to resolve moderately complex problems that impact project completion.- Excellent interpersonal, active listening, and influencing skills; establishes and maintains professional and productive working relationships with team members.- Ability to collaborate with other medical writers across therapeutic areas for template or medical writing process creation/improvement.- Extensive knowledge of the Pfizer Global Style Guide and all relevant SOPs (associated forms and work instructions) and process training that relate to medical writing deliverables and quality review of deliverables.- Demonstrates knowledge of Pfizer business divisions and interrelationships between them.- Engages in continuous learning; shows commitment to being familiar with new regulations and industry standards, new technology, and new processes that impact Medical Writing.- Familiarity with global regulatory guidance (especially ICH, FDA, and EMA) relevant to clinical and safety data.- Basic understanding of the drug development process.- Basic understanding of medical concepts of the disease and approaches to current standard treatments.- Analytic skills.

Ability to examine data and formulate reasonable hypotheses.- Oral presentation skills. Strong oral presentation skills, including ability to present and explain data analyses.- Language skills.

High fluency in spoken and written English.- Knowledge of how to use publicly available databases (eg, PubMed, DailyMed, FDA, and EMA sources and guidelines) for literature and information mining to support document content and how to cite such information appropriately.- Able to interpret analyses of data supporting regulatory/clinical documents and to summarize in clearly written text with guidance from team members.- Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Word (above average knowledge) and other relevant software (eg, PowerPoint, Excel).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Advanced degree (MS/MA/PhD) is preferred.- Prior experience with document management systems and collaboration software (including cloud-based systems) and co-authoring principles is preferred.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS- Position located at GPD site or remote work location.

Primarily an office-based position involving computer work, attending meetings, making presentations, participating in global conference calls that accommodate time zones.- Ability to professionally communicate both verbally and in writing in English.

Can discuss clinical data succinctly and accurately with cross-functional lines, scientific staff from a range of disciplines, and all levels of management

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Some travel (~5%) across GPD sites for face to face meetings, if necessary. Depending on location may need to accommodate global teleconference calls across different time zones.

Work Location Assignment:
On premise/hybrid

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