Lead Medical Writer – Medical Communications

Job not on LinkedIn

🕒 September 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $110k - $125k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏥📝 Medical Writer

Where this job comes from

Posted on Avalere's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship September 28

Still open on Avalere's site. Checked 3 hours ago.

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Avalere

201 - 500 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚖️ Legal

Healthcare • Insurance • Legal

Avalere is a healthcare consulting firm founded in 2000, partnered with leading life sciences companies, health plans, providers, and investors. It provides objective analysis, balanced insights, and innovative, data-driven solutions to complex healthcare challenges. Avalere specializes in services such as market access, HEOR, patient-centered research, implementation science, evaluation, and due diligence. It operates as part of Avalere Health, dedicating efforts to help clients in the life sciences, health plans, providers, and private equity sectors to anticipate and adapt to industry trends. The firm offers insights into federal and state healthcare policies and aids clients in adapting to changes in the legislative and regulatory environment.

📋 Description

• Act as a lead writer and client contact for assigned accounts • Develop content with assigned project teams to ensure quality editorial implementation • Communicate proactively with editorial, client, vendor, and project teams • Ensure projects are completed on time and budget • Brief, review, guide, and direct less experienced writers • Provide scientific oversight for large or complex projects or workstreams • Drive project delivery and champion internal and external processes, including compliance • Support business development • Investigate, conceptualise, and strategise new medical communications projects and publications • Represent Avalere Health at client meetings, advisory boards, speaker-training meetings, and business development initiatives • Deliver scientifically accurate Oncology-focused medical communications content • Lead multiple accounts and ensure editorial excellence from planning through final review • Manage content allocation and strategic client interactions • Develop client presentations and oversee editorial outputs against timelines and deliverables

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in the life sciences • PharmD or PhD advantageous • Ideally 3 years+ experience in medical or scientific writing within a healthcare consultancy or medical communications agency • Proven experience developing scientific content across varied therapeutic areas • Oncology expertise advantageous but not essential • Experience managing scientific content types, including publications • Ability to review content for accuracy and flow • Proven experience in project ownership and problem-solving • Ability to work proactively in a collaborative team environment • Strong client communication skills • Ability to serve as a reliable point of contact for clients and external experts • Ability to provide leadership and mentoring to junior writers • Experience managing client relationships and serving as a key point of contact • Familiarity with compliance and regulatory guidelines for medical communications

🏖️ Benefits

• 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested) • Life insurance • Disability coverage • Medical, dental, and vision plans • Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work • Option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year • 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day • 9 public holidays • Gifted end-of-year holidays • Early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August • Free counselling through the employee assistance program • Personalized health support • Enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies • Continuous professional development opportunities • On-demand training and support • Global mobility opportunities across the business • Employee Network Groups • Dedicated social opportunities and resources for homeworkers • Opportunity for global, cross-capability career moves • Disability Confident Scheme interview adjustments

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