Medical Information Writer

Job description

Job title: Medical Information Writer

·  Hiring Manager: Head Scientific Communications
·  Location: Hyderabad
·  % of travel expected: Travel required as per business need
·  Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi Global Hub is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is set up to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, R&D, Data & Digital functions. Sanofi Global Hub strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, globally.

Main responsibilities:

Responsible for research and authoring of scientific response documents under the direction of the Global Medical Information (GMI) team in support of global and local medical information activities. Responsible for the execution of activities as required in alignment with GMI colleagues. Achieved through a combination of product knowledge, along with editing, writing, and document management proficiency.

Essential Job duties and responsibilities: 1) Conducts literature searches and reviews, and extracts/summarizes complex data from the scientific literature. 2) Generates evidence-based, accurate, current, and fair-balanced summaries of data for the creation/maintenance of scientific response documents for products in designated therapeutic area(s). 3) Adapts global scientific response documents for assigned countries. 4) Develops responses to escalated inquiries for assigned countries. 5) Develops contributions to US NDA Annual Reports. 6) Contributes to US compendia reviews. 7) Ability to execute the MI projects once they are conceptualized with guidance from experienced team members or mangers 8) Demonstrates resolve and urgency to accomplish tasks under the guidance of supervisor. Participate in cross-functional project teams as needed.  Ensure that assigned projects are completed on schedule. 9) Develops and maintains Therapeutic Area expertise. 10) Able to conduct quality checks on peer outputs in case of business need11) Collaborates effectively with Global Medical Information teams to execute content plans

·  People: 1) Maintain effective relationships with the end stakeholders (Medical scientific community) within the allocated Global business unit and product – with an end objective to develop medical information content as per requirement. 2) Interact effectively with stakeholders in medical and pharmacovigilance departments. 3) Constantly assist other medical information writers in developing knowledge and sharing expertise.
·  Performance: Provide deliverables (scientific response documents, US NDA Annual Reports, US compendia reviews) as per agreed timelines and quality
·  Process: 1) Can work with minimum supervision to conduct data sanity and produce error free MI project outputs for countries supported. 2) Assist the assigned medical information team in conducting a comprehensive medical writing needs analysis. 3) Implement relevant elements of content plans and associated activities for the year identified for the assigned countries. 4) Work with selected vendors within the region to deliver the required deliverables as per the defined process. 5) Help to manger to design an overall plan of action basis end-customers feedback & improve course content and delivery.
·  Stakeholders: 1) Work closely with medical teams in regions/areas to identify medical writing needs and assist in developing assigned deliverables. 2) Liaise with the Medical department to prepare relevant & customized deliverables.

About you

·  Experience : 2 – 3 years of experience in medical writing for the pharmaceuticals/ healthcare industry or equivalent experience in a clinical setting; At least 1 – 2 years of direct medical information experience in a pharmaceutical company
·  Soft skills : Stakeholder management; communication skills; and ability to work independently and within a team environment
·  Technical skills : As applicable (Including but not limited to Medical operational excellence, time, and risk management skills, Excellent technical (medical) editing and writing skills, Knowledge about literature evaluation and multilevel response development)
·  Education : Advanced degree in life sciences/ pharmacy/ similar discipline, Master in science, MBA or equivalent
·  Languages : Excellent knowledge of the English language (spoken and written)

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