Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Syneos Health Commercial Solutions is a medical communications company that translates complex scientific information into communications for biopharmaceutical and healthcare audiences. The Biomedical Writer will develop scientifically accurate medical communication materials, synthesize and interpret complex data, conduct research, collaborate with internal and client teams, and manage multiple projects across disease areas.
Responsibilities
- Develop innovative and creative scientific narratives for medical communication needs that are customized for client product and situational landscapes. This includes educational slide sets, educational content including slide decks, messaging documents, brochures, summaries, and other digital and print content formats
- Synthesize, prioritize, and visualize data effectively when developing medical communication assets
- Conduct literature searches and other desktop research to build understanding of new therapeutic areas as needed
- Interpret complex scientific and medical data for different audiences
- Collaborate with internal medical team to develop content for medical educational programs in the form of slides, text, and videos/scripts
- Participate in client meeting to review content and collect feedback
- Ensure content is scientifically accurate and supported by original references
- Fack-checking and quality control (ensuring content developed by other writers is supported by scientific evidence)
- Update content based on internal and client team feedback
- Collaborate with account and medical counterparts to track project deadlines
- Develop knowledge in multiple disease areas
- Experience in oncology, pulmonary, or diabetes therapeutic areas is a plus but not required
- Build understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and clinical development cycle
- Ability to prioritize/organize workload and manage multiple workstreams
- Build understanding of client dynamics and expectations
- Participate in client-facing meetings
- Travel (e.g. advisory board, conferences) or on-site client visits maybe be required around 10% of time, as needed
Skills
- Education: PhD, MD, PharmD
- 0-1 years of pharma or medical communication agency experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with account teams, other writers, editors, physicians, and clients
- Work as team player in a large team
- Analyze and synthesize complex information from multiple sources
- Communicate medical/technical information to a wide variety of audiences
- Work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, team-oriented environment
- Efficiently prioritize multiple tasks and communication effectively with others; can quickly evaluate the resources and potential challenges and communicate with the team in an actionable manner
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), medical literature databases (PubMed and/or EMBASE), referencing and scientific visualization software
- Experience in oncology, pulmonary, or diabetes therapeutic areas is a plus but not required
Benefits
- Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance
- Medical, Dental and Vision health benefits
- Company match 401k
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Sick time
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