Thermo Fisher Scientific
Principal Medical Writer (Publications)
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Job Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll 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.
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Effective communication of evidence and information is essential to conveying the value of products. With approximately 20 years of experience, our highly trained staff provide medical writing services for all phases of the product lifecycle, helping to create a consistency in quality and voice. Our writers prepare documents that are clear, concise, compelling, and scientifically accurate, while also ensuring they are fully aligned with regulations, industry standard processes, and your corporate guidance.
IMPORTANT: a cover letter describing your qualifications is required, along with your resume to be considered.
Discover Impactful Work
The Publications and Scientific Communications team, a part of Medical Writing and Healthcare Communications, prepares medical publications, abstracts, posters, presentations, and other scientific communications. Our dynamic, highly collaborative team focuses on providing quality writing to internal collaborators and external pharmaceutical and biotech clients.
A day in the life:
- Write, edit, and handle publications and other scientific communications (manuscripts, posters, abstracts, oral presentation slide decks, and review articles), on time, within budget, and with little instruction. Provides senior review of documents.
- Appropriately resolve or raise project management issues, such as out-of-scope activities
- Ensure compliance with quality processes and requirements
- Represent the team as a prime contact on projects, establishes client relationships.
- Assist in business development initiatives
- Lead or provide input on initiatives for process improvement, provides training and mentorship of other writers.
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Keys to Success:
We are looking for an expert publications' writer to join the team. The Principal Medical Writer will be responsible for leading and producing high-quality publications and scientific communications, from conception to completion. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in writing publications, abstracts, and posters, as well as excellent written English and analytical skills. We seek an excellent teammate who is proactive, enjoys challenges, can work on multiple projects concurrently, and is can work in a highly collaborative CRO environment.
Education and Experience
- Extensive proven experience as a writer of peer-reviewed medical publications (comparable to 8+ years); experience working in a CRO environment preferred
- Excellent scientific writing, project management, and digital literacy
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a scientific field; advanced degree preferred
- In-depth knowledge of relevant specialty areas of medicine
- Additional qualifications (AMWA, EMWA, or RAC training; CMPP certification) advantageous
- Excellent written English.
- Proactive communicator
- Sound professional judgement in dealing with inquiries, issues, and customer concerns; able to independently make decisions and solve problems
- Comfortable working on multiple projects concurrently
- Able to complete work within fixed budgets and timelines and to facilitate conflict resolution among team members and clients
Our Mission
is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need.
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Thank you for your interest as you consider starting a new career journey with us. As the world leader in serving science, our colleagues develop critical solutions through innovation—and build rewarding careers. Discover their extraordinary stories and connection to our Mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Their work is a story of purpose. What story will you tell?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.
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