Medical Writer II/ Senior/ Principal

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When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve. At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do. Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference. Based on level of experience we may consider to offer II to Principal level. Key Accountabilities : Author Clinical Documents Gather, review, analyze, and evaluate pertinent resources to prepare, develop, and finalize key clinical documents for submission to regulatory authorities, without the need for any supervision or additional formal on-the-job training. Train self and provide guidance to others to prepare any type of medical writing deliverable. Revise document drafts based on the review comments from team members to ensure inclusion of all relevant input. Manage ongoing and/or revised project documentation and correspondence. Quality Control Ensure that all work is complete and of high quality prior to team distribution or shipment to client. Provide technical leadership to ensure clinical data presented in summary documents is in compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines, SOPs, and goals of submission. Project Management Operate as the project lead writer/submission coordinator and primary client contact to manage contributions of multiple writers working on related documents. Manage scope of work, timeline and project goals, technical information, and input from clients throughout the project. Develop, coordinate, and oversee work plans for individual and multiple-document delivery, to enable the team to work efficiently and effectively to meet milestones and achieve team objectives. Provide leadership and strategic planning/adjustments, delegation of responsibilities, and tasks to team members. Monitor the progress of each individual project task and assess the overall program. Ensure key information received in project or program meetings is appropriately disseminated, such that project strategy is maintained and data or key message changes are incorporated appropriately across documents. Continuously monitor overall project performance and, if necessary, identify ways to ensure that the project is completed on-time and within budget. Keep client and team informed of project status. Contribute expertise as a document/cross-document specialist and content historian to analyze proposed program, studies, and related documents to deliver information required by the target audiences. Build and maintain collaborative relationships with teams/clients, leading to increased performance and a sense of inclusion. Cultivate efficient, productive, and professional working relationships to promote client satisfaction and confidence. Track actual versus planned project budget. Determine the cause of cost overruns and out-of-scope activities and recommend corrective action to medical writing management. Provide updates for each project to Medical Writing Services management, and assess forecasting and resourcing. Propose creative solutions to medical writing management to shifting timelines and staffing requirements. Communicate to writer's line manager any needs or concerns regarding level of training or performance of team members on project work. Provide line manager with input regarding team member's performance for employees' periodic performance review, and as needed. Client Liaison/Service Be aware of client expectations for self and team members. Respond appropriately to incidents of dissatisfaction, and feed back to Medical Writing Services management. Provide support as appropriate to Business Development/Client Solutions and Medical Writing Services management in their efforts to win new business. Identify and solicit new business leads for Medical Writing Services, attend business development meetings, and prepare and make sales presentations to clients, if called upon. Provide strategic and project planning intelligence to Medical Writing Services management for medical writing activities in the proposal generation process, including assessment of scope of services to be provided to a client with respect to medical writing tasks. May attend proposal development meetings if requested by Medical Writing Services management. Input to development of client proposals generated by Medical Writing Services and letters of agreement/intent based on existing templates. May function as the client contact if requested and communicate pricing information in conjunction with Medical Writing Services management. If requested, suggest appropriate resourcing, based on existing templates and standards, for full-service and stand-alone projects. Training/Compliance Kee