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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🔬 Science

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Science

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Supervises Medical Writers. • Provide short-term and long-term resource planning in order to assign projects to appropriate and available staff. • Holds regularly scheduled meetings with staff and provide updates to senior management. • Review and approve semimonthly time sheets. • Assist staff to forecast project-related costs and timelines for completion. • Hires and evaluates employees. • Recommends salary levels and promotions • Supervises the preparation of Medical Writing deliverables. • Organizes processes for completion of projects within established timelines. • Evaluate timeliness and quality of deliverables and provides updates to senior management. • Acts as resource for questions relating to study design, adverse event reporting, and statistical analyses. • Assists writers in presentation and interpretation of data. • Performs senior review to ensure overall adherence to departmental standards. • Write and review group SOP and WPD. • Evaluates compliance with SOP/WPD on an ongoing basis. • Gives marketing presentations to potential clients on the capabilities of the Medical Writing department. • Interacts with Bids and Contracts and Business Development to prepare proposals for Medical Writing projects. • Develops and maintains training programs for Medical Writing. • Ensures that all writers are adequately trained. • Uses scientific knowledge to assist in the written interpretation of scientific data and to guide others in their presentation of scientific data.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a science-related field required; Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, Masters) preferred • Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years) or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in medical publications writing, preferably within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, or medical communications industry. • Demonstrated experience managing scientific writing staff, overseeing publication deliverables, and supporting publication planning and execution is required. • 1+ year of leadership responsibility • Ability to supervise, evaluate, and mentor departmental personnel • Ability to oversee assignments, monitor staff workload, and provide guidance for completion of assignments • Ability to create and modify project timelines, allocate resources, and forecast departmental workload • In depth knowledge of departmental processes and ability to contribute to improving and developing processes • Excellent medical writing skills, including excellent grammatical, editorial, and proofreading skills, and the ability to effectively interpret and present extremely complex data • Effective communication, negotiation, and presentation skills needed to represent the department in a range of situations including bid defenses, capabilities presentations, and audits • Ability to develop, review, and modify proposals and budgets for presentation to clients.

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development opportunities • Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri)