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Medical Writing Asset Lead (Associate Director)
Site Name: Warsaw, Canada – Ontario – Mississauga, India – Karnataka – Bengaluru, UK – London – Brentford
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
PhD, PharmD, MPH, MSc, or other post-graduate degree.
Proven track record in writing clinical documents in scope.
6+ years’ experience in clinical regulatory writing in the pharmaceutical industry
6+ years’ experience in project management, planning, communication, and matrix leadership
6+ years’ experience working with International Council for Harmonization (ICH)/Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Guidelines
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Highly effective communication skills and capability to present ideas and data clearly to a group, including key stakeholders at senior level.
Demonstrated track record of quality decision making and creative problem resolution that impacts program/project direction.
Experience analyzing complex scientific & operational information and implementing effective solutions.
Experience in Risk Management and Management Monitoring
Effective ability to prioritize tasks and deliver on deadlines.
Proven track record of successfully managing simple to medium complex programs.
Associate Director Medical Writing Asset Lead
Are you energized by a medical writing role that allows you to shape operational strategy and accelerate product approvals? If so, this Associate Director Medical Writing Asset Lead role could be an exciting opportunity to consider.
As an Associate Director Medical Writing Asset Lead, you will implement operational strategy guided by the Therapeutic Area Head of Medical Writing, tracking milestones and deliverables to manage the performance of the Medical Writing team, ensuring consistency, regulatory compliance, and high quality of functional deliverables.
You will apply experience, scientific and operational expertise, and leadership in a matrix organization to provide Medical Writing strategy to one or more therapeutic area assets, to design and deliver high-quality fit for purpose clinical documents including those for regulatory submissions, to plan for efficient and accelerated ways of working, and to contribute to key organizational process improvements.
This is a highly visible medical writing role, that will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.
Leadership and Expertise :
Lead one or more drug and/or vaccine assets and serve as a medical writing point of contact for this/these assets.
Provide the medical writing strategy for the development of clinical programs and content of documents.
Lead matrix team to deliver high quality, fit-for-purpose clinical documents that accurately reflect associated data and are in line with GSK standards and global/regional/local regulatory requirements.
Clinical documents in scope include clinical study protocols, clinical study reports, briefing documents for regulatory authorities, responses to regulatory authority questions, clinical sections of the IMPD/IND for clinical trial applications, investigator brochures, annual reports, Common Technical Document Summaries and Clinical Overview.
Collaborate with in house, CROs and/or independent contractor medical writers to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality fit for purpose documents. Collaborate closely with Global Regulatory Affairs and other cross-functional groups to understand business needs and clinical data.
Demonstrate high performance standards for own work and encourage similar standards across the matrix team.
Ensure Medical Writing strategy is aligned with the portfolio strategy (e.g., prioritization, acceleration, meeting upper quartile performance). Provide guidance and facilitation to submission teams in development of submission plans. Recommend solutions for problems that affect timelines.
Drive, promote and implement key organizational process improvement initiatives. Proactively generate ideas for simplification and improvement taking advantage of opportunities that arise. Promote environment for others to generate ideas for improvement (e.g., continuously challenge the status quo) and champion novel business solutions in technology and ways of working.
Lead development of training materials for a range of clinical documents. Provide mentoring, coaching and/or training to individuals or teams to develop others and share learnings.
Promote leadership behaviors that support GSK values.Provide resourcing information to Medical Writing Therapeutic Area Head to contribute to budget forecast, escalate risks and opportunities to ensure optimal resource utilization and timely product approvals.