Senior Director, Medical Writing Services
India, Remote Job ID R0000020173 Category Medical Writing Date Posted 02/12/2024Overview
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.
Success Profile
Do you have these soft skills and interpersonal traits to succeed at Parexel?
- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Consistent
- Deadline-oriented
- Detail-oriented
- Insightful
About This Role
Senior Director, Medical Writing Services.
Job Purpose: The primary role of the Senior Director is to ensure the satisfactory management of
Medical Writing Services (MWS) operations in the assigned region in a manner consistent with Corporate
and Department mission and goals. In addition, the Senior Director understands stakeholder needs,
preferences, priorities, and uses such information to navigate complex social network environments to
influence, compromise, and achieve results. The Senior Director focuses MWS team efforts on activities
that are of the highest value for improving MWS and Parexel’s market position. Other responsibilities
include coordination with other regional departmental management to harmonize processes, employee
development, and management of regional team; supervision and management of assigned MWS staff
and external consultant personnel; management of project budgets and review of regional department
budget; seeking and following up on MWS sales opportunities, and leading departmental and cross-
functional communications.
Accountability
Regional Oversight
Line and General Management
Client Liaison/Service
Skills:
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, verbal and written communication skills.
• A professional and flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning.
• Motivation to work independently and consistently in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to
detail, e.g., organizational skills.
• Possesses cross-cultural sensitivity and can influence without authority.
• Provides departmental expertise and perspectives to promote prospective business opportunities;
provides Parexel colleagues with pertinent information to formalize a sound business strategy.
• Ability to see the bigger picture, understand trends, and use broad evidence to predict, anticipate, and
shape the future without constraint by the status quo.
• Ability to think beyond one’s business unit and geography to consider the organization as a whole and
its marketplace. Develop and implement creative approaches to adapt the business to meet future
Knowledge and Experience:
• Demonstrated understanding of clinical research, the drug development process, and applicable
regulatory guidelines and regulations.
• Broad experience in management of complex medical writing projects.
• Significant previous line management experience, preferably in a billable service industry.
• Project management experience (e.g., planning and monitoring).
• Business awareness/business development experience. Apply Parexel’s business principles to
plan and monitor the outcome of activities and be proactive in planning and resource allocation.
• Knowledge of resource management and productivity metric management.
• Advanced word processing skills, including Microsoft (MS) Office (expertise in Word and
competency in Excel); software and systems knowledge or ability to learn and adapt to various IT
systems: document management systems, collaborative authoring (e.g., SharePoint), and file
conversion and databases (e.g., MS Access).
• Ability to travel.
• Fluent in written and spoken English
Education:
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Life Sciences/Health Related Sciences or equivalent.
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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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