Medical Writer Research

Total Experience -3 Years

Department: Medical Affairs / Scientific Communications
Education: MBBS / BDS / PhD / Masters in Pharmacy or a related field
Scope: Global

Role Objective / Purpose

• To develop high-quality scientific content and documentation across therapeutic areas by conducting in-depth literature reviews synthesizing data and delivering clear accurate and audience-appropriate materials.
• The role involves contributing to both short- and long-term projects in the consumer healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors including medical safety pre-clinical clinical regulatory educational and promotional content.
• Additional responsibilities include editing proofreading reviewing referencing and verifying content to ensure adherence to high medical writing standards.
• The role ensures timely delivery of project milestones while maintaining quality compliance and business value.

Key Responsibilities

Literature Reviews and Evidence Mapping

• Conduct comprehensive secondary research/literature reviews and prepare overarching summaries using effective search strategies across scientific databases (e.g. PubMed Embase Cochrane Library) and open-source platforms.
• Analyze and interpret clinical and scientific data to extract actionable insights.
• Stay current with trends treatment guidelines and regulatory updates in both OTC and Rx domains.

Medical and Scientific Content Development

• Leverage scientific expertise to create high-quality communication materials in the OTC and Rx space.
• Research write edit organize interpret curate and quality-check various types of scientific content across multiple formats and channels.
• Prepare review and edit a range of scientific documents including:
  • Literature reviews
  • Manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
  • Abstracts posters and slide decks for scientific conferences
  • Treatment guideline summaries
  • Publication summaries and white papers
• Ensure scientific accuracy clarity and compliance with applicable guidelines (e.g. ICMJE CONSORT).

Content Review and Quality Assurance

• Review medical promotional and scientific materials in accordance with internal SOPs and external guidelines.
• Verify references and ensure content is plagiarism-free.
• Ensure clear factual and effective presentation of data and discussions.
• Maintain and apply templates formats and styles to ensure compliance with industry and client standards.

Project Execution

• Understand and define client requirements during project initiation including objectives and timelines.
• Develop scientifically accurate and medically relevant content across therapeutic areas adhering to branding and regulatory guidelines.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously ensuring quality and client satisfaction.
• Respond to and deliver ad-hoc client requests within agreed timelines.
• Collaborate with medical writing colleagues the graphics team and clients as needed.

Other Responsibilities

• Mentorship: Actively mentor team members to support effective task execution and goal achievement.
• Values and Behaviors: Consistently demonstrate WNS values and foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Personal Development: Identify learning and development needs in collaboration with the line manager and pursue relevant training opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators

Process-Related

• Domain Expertise: Quickly build subject matter expertise in assigned therapeutic areas.
• Efficiency: Develop effective search strategies organize data for analysis and prepare medical and scientific content.
• Accuracy: Validate sources identify data gaps and ensure scientific rigor.
• Quality: Deliver well-structured grammatically sound and visually engaging documents using appropriate templates and tone.

People-Related

• Demonstrate strong teamwork collaboration and professionalism.
• Actively participate in team meetings knowledge-sharing sessions and training initiatives.

Required Competencies & Skills

Must Have

• Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical OTC and consumer healthcare landscape.
• Clear grasp of medical scientific and statistical terminology and concepts.
• Robust knowledge of various types of clinical studies the structure and formats of different manuscript types (e.g. SLR TLR Meta-analysis) along with their relevance and application in evidence synthesis and utilization.
• Proven experience in scientific writing and literature analysis.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word PowerPoint Excel) and online research tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail critical thinking abilities and the capacity to work independently.
• Demonstrated accountability adaptability and effective time management.

Good to Have

• Familiarity with regulatory documentation and compliance in US/EU markets.
• Exposure to text mining data visualization tools and scientific storytelling.
• Experience with reference management (e.g. EndNote Zotero Mendeley) and statistical (e.g. RevMan SPSS GraphPad Prism R SAS) tools.
• Knowledge of proprietary tools such as DataVision PubPro and Veeva Vault.

Qualifications :

Msc. Lifesciences M. Pharm PhD

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1