Clinical Technical Editor- FSP
Canada, Remote Job ID R0000032645 Category Medical Writing Date Posted 04/02/2025Overview
As a Medical Writer at Parexel, your strong scientific knowledge, writing skills, and patient focus effectively communicate complex scientific data to various stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, medical professionals, and the general public. You must be able to collaborate within cross-functional teams to achieve the development of a wide range of clinical research documents, such as model informed consent forms, clinical study reports, pharmacovigilance documents, and more.
We foster a culture of inclusivity, collaboration, and support that empowers our employees to make a meaningful impact on people's lives. We offer continuous learning from being mentored to job shadowing, job rotation, and stretch assignments, as well as becoming a mentor or leading a team. Your development and promotion are based on global standards and your personal development plan.
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- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Consistent
- Deadline-oriented
- Detail-oriented
- Insightful
About This Role
Parexel FSP is looking for a Clinical Technical Editor!
This role is remote and can be located anywhere in the US or Canada!
Job Purpose:
The clinical technical editor (CTE) performs the quality control, formatting, technical editing, and tool support for the clinical regulatory writing portfolio composed of multiple therapeutic areas.
Key Accountabilities:
May include but not limited to the following:
Document Quality Control
• Coordinates and performs quality control (QC) of clinical documents to
ensure data consistency and document integrity, consistency of text with
internal document data displays as well as external reference sources
• Ensures documents comply with appropriate International Council on
Harmonisation (ICH) standards, regulatory guidance, and company
templates and processes
• Ensures consistent QC and good document practices are followed to ensure
readiness for downstream stakeholders (eg, publishing teams)
• Proofreads, reviews, edits, and confirms data against sources to verify:
o Completeness and accuracy of information
o Accurate use of grammar and style
o Application of format standards for electronic documents
o Compliance with submission ready standards
• Works within appropriate document management systems to ensure security
and version control is maintained
• Supports the development, implementation, and periodic review of editorial
management procedures
• Supports tool enhancements, testing, and maintenance as applicable
• Supports tools and processes for implementation of structured content
management
Communication and Collaboration
• Works collaboratively with medical writers, regulatory publishers, and project
team members to deliver high-quality clinical documentation in a timely
manner
• Supports medical writers on the use of tools, technologies, and company
templates to facilitate efficient and compliant document delivery
• Liaises with cross-functional lines/vendors, as appropriate
Compliance with Parexel Standards
• Complies with required training curriculum
• Completes timesheets accurately as required
• Submits expense reports as required
• Updates CV as required
• Maintains a working knowledge of and complies with Parexel processes,
ICH-GCPs, and other applicable requirements
Skills:
• Ability to perform QC for clinical documentation that includes, but is not limited to, clinical
protocols, investigator brochures, informed consent forms, clinical study reports (including
administrative appendices), patient narratives, and clinical modules of the common technical document in multiple therapeutic areas
• Advanced Word and Adobe Acrobat skills
• Flexibility in adapting to new tools and technology
• Writing and editing skills following defined processes and templates
• Good communication skills (email responses, meeting presentations)
• Effective time management, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Customer focused
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Complete fluency in reading and writing American English
Knowledge and Experience:
• Minimum 2 years in editing and QC of scientific/clinical documentation in a pharmaceutical,
biotech, clinical research, or related environment
• Understanding of appropriate ICH and regulatory guidance pertaining to clinical documents
• Understanding of Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) data structures for purposes of navigating
the data to reconcile data back to source
• Experience working in Excel workbooks; macro writing capabilities preferred
• Experience working in document management systems; capable of managing workflows and
troubleshooting user errors
• Experience with collaborative authoring and review tools
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (Life Science preferred)
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Potential Career Path
Parexel offers career paths for Medical Writers to progress in their technical position or managerial position, as well as options to move to other areas of the business.
- Associate Medical Writer
- Medical Writer I
- Medical Writer II
- Senior Medical Writer
- Subject Matter ExpertPeople Management
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