FSP Principal Medical Writer (North America)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

FSP Principal Regulatory Medical Writer (Remote; US)

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Summarized Purpose:

We are excited to expand our Medical Writing Functional Service Partnership (FSP) Team and are seeking candidates based in the United States! As a remote-based Principal Medical Writer within the FSP team, you will provide high-quality medical and scientific writing from planning and coordination through delivery of final drafts to internal and external clients. You will collaborate with internal and external clients, supporting and enabling effective and efficient communication that results in operational excellence.

Essential Functions:

• Researches, writes, and edits clinical study reports and study protocols, and summarizes data from clinical studies.

• May serve as primary author who writes and provides input on complex clinical and scientific and program level documents, including IBs, INDs, and MAAs.

• Provides senior-level review of routine and complex documents. Provides training and mentorship for other writers and program managers on document preparation, the use of software for document development, document types, regulatory requirements, and therapeutic area knowledge.

• Ensures compliance with quality processes and requirements for assigned documents. As the subject matter expert, develops and reviews best practices, methods and techniques for achieving optimal results, including various client-specific processes, and leads process improvement initiatives. May also develop, review, and manage performance metrics for assigned projects.

• May serve as backup program manager. Identifies and resolves out-of-scope activities. Duties could include developing timelines, budgets, forecasts and contract modifications, and assisting business development with client presentations and proposal text review, and attending bid defense meetings and capabilities presentations.

• Represents the department at project launch meetings, review meetings, and project team meetings.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification; Advanced degree preferred

Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years)

Experience in managing and directing complex medical writing projects required

Experience working in the pharmaceutical/CRO industry preferred

Additional qualifications in medical writing (AMWA; EMWA; RAC) advantageous

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Significant knowledge of global, regional, national, and other document development guidelines

• In-depth knowledge in one or more specialty areas such as preclinical, therapeutic, regulatory, submissions, communications, etc.

• Excellent data interpretation and medical writing skills, including grammatical, editorial, and proofreading skills

• Excellent project management skills

• Advanced interpersonal, oral, and written communication, and presentation skills

• Excellent negotiation skills

• Excellent judgment; high degree of independence in decision making and problem solving

• Ability to mentor and lead junior-level staff

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $79,000.00–$170,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards