Medical Writer - Scientific Publications

Job Responsibilities

• Taking ownership and responsibility for development (write, review, proofread, and

data-check) of high-quality, client-ready scientific and medical materials like manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress and meetings materials, and literature searches and reviews according to client and audience needs with excellent a1enon to detail.

• Actively involved in reviewing materials developed by scientific writers to ensure

strategic alignment and scientific accuracy as needed and providing clear constructive

feedback, support, and supervision to writers. Mentor and train scientific writers by

sharing best practices and client preferences, thereby contributing to skill development within the team.

• Having excellent knowledge of product/accounts to enable meaningful interactions

with clients and authors, including consultancy where necessary. Liaising and building

and maintaining strong and long-standing professional relationships with Interntaional

pharmaceutical clients, healthcare professionals, internal and external stakeholders

including authors, reviewers and key opinion leaders across therapeutic areas --

Learning to anticipate their needs. This includes educating and advising clients on how

to best implement their strategic and tactical plans and proactively provide

recommendations to clients on how to improve scientific content and propose new

document types/ways to disseminate client date more effectively.

• Effectively and proactively communicate with team members, authors/faculty, clients

and vendors.

• Attend workshops/seminars/training to hone your skills and contribute to

Organizational objectives.

• Attending client and other external meetings and supporting senior team members as

Needed.

• Apply your scientific and creative knowledge and work closely with client directors in

developing ideas and executing effective medical Communicatons initiatives in the

digital space, including publication extenders, creation of infographics, Interactive

assets, website content, patent narratives, and medical information engagement

plans. Also, supporting with the development of visual content and materials using

effective data visualization techniques and approaches. Contributing to innovative

out of the box solutions for medical writing projects.

• You will be responsible for ensuring all materials follow/comply with client

requirements/SOPs, style guides, client templates, client preferences (as applicable),

and CACTUS internal SOPs. Any updates to either of these items should be made

consistently and documents should remain up to date. Perform as a document specialist, provide intellectual input across document types, and contribute to making cutting-edge research accessible to specific audiences as appropriate, by maintaining current awareness of developments across therapeutic areas or disciplines.

• Supporting with pitches, both during the preparation phase and the actual pitch.

Qualifications and Prerequisites

• 5+ years of experience in relevant fields of scientific writing in publications.
• PhD (Life Sciences) OR Post Doc with a good understanding of clinical research and
• medical Communicaton.
• Should have experience working on publications.
• Clear, concise, scientific style of writing, with a high level of attention to detail and
• excellent language skills.
• Ability to adapt writing style to different materials and target audiences.
• Basic knowledge of biostatistics.
• Literature reviewing and evaluation capabilities.
• Ability to multi-task and work under tight timelines.