Senior Medical Writer
South Africa, Remote Job ID R0000033398 Category Medical Writing Date Posted 05/30/2025Overview
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.
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
Parexel is in the business of improving the world’s health. We do this by providing a suite of biopharmaceutical services that help clients across the globe transform scientific discoveries into new treatments. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, our therapeutic, technical, and functional ability is underpinned by a deep conviction in what we do. We believe in our values; Patients First, Quality, Respect, Empowerment & Accountability.
We are currently recruiting a Senior Medical Writer based in South Africa, who will work as part of the Drug Safety writing team.
The Senior Medical Writer is responsible for comprehensive signal management, including detection, analysis, and evaluation from various sources. They oversee the end-to-end signal management process, collaborate with client safety science , and adhere to client-defined plans and SOPs. The PMW also contributes to preparing, updating, and managing various safety documents including Risk Management Plans (RMPs), Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs), and other aggregate reports. This position requires expertise in pharmacovigilance processes and the ability to manage complex safety data.
This role also focuses on training junior staff, and requires strong communication, and problem-solving skills, balancing mentoring and client relation and requires expertise in pharmacovigilance, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate across functions to ensure comprehensive product safety management across multiple therapeutic areas.
Knowledge and Experience:
- Relevant experience is desirable in Regulatory/ Pharmacovigilance or related field.
- Good knowledge of medical terminologies
Education:
- Science/Medicine degree: The minimum qualification required would be a university degree in life Sciences/Health or Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacy, microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biophysics etc.)
- A degree in Medicine/Dentistry/Physiotherapy/Experimental Medicine/Nursing, which involves patient exposure in hospital-based environment, would be an advantage
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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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