Medical Writer

General Job Summary:

The Medical Writer is responsible for creating communications materials including but not limited to literature reviews, conference abstracts, conference posters, manuscripts, plain language summaries, graphical abstracts, medical affairs materials, and blogs.

Additionally, this team member will serve as a consultant to KJT’s in-house research teams and external client partners by advising on best practices and gold standard processes to socialize research results across a variety of venues and forums. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: The Medical Writer is engaged in all aspects of client interactions from initial kickoff through creation and delivery of all items commissioned by our clients. The duties listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Other duties and projects may also be assigned. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Key Responsibilities 

Client Management

• Engages in active listening with clients to ensure a clear understanding of their communication objectives.  
• Contributes to enthusiastic and thought-provoking, consultative discussions regarding medical and scientific communications and publications planning and tactical project scope, communicating clearly with all stakeholders.
• Independently anticipates, identifies, and mitigates client/project risks and challenges, taking personal ownership for respectfully and expeditiously addressing or escalating issues.   
• Ensures client requirements are clearly understood, feasible and delivered in the most efficient and effective way in accord with deadlines.   

Medical Writing & Analysis 

• Is experienced in reviewing and developing publications for primary research results from studies involving real-world evidence, patient-reported outcomes, and health economic and outcomes research source information as well as clinical research. 
• Reviews study data and existing literature and synthesizes results into thorough and well-written deliverables including but not limited to manuscripts, abstracts, podium presentations, publication extenders, posters, and medical affairs deliverables.
• Creates visually appealing, relevant, and effective tables and figures to communicate results clearly and concisely for manuscripts, abstracts, slide decks, and scientific presentations.
• Conducts literature searches utilizing various sources (e.g., journal subscriptions, academic libraries, and literature search databases) to compile a thorough appropriate bibliography of medical literature related to client objectives and information needs.  
• Displays working knowledge of good publication practices.
• Reviews, edits, and ensures accuracy and quality of all deliverables. 
• Collaborates with internal team in a respectful and productive manner.

Consultation

• Engages and manages non-client authors to participate in deliverable development, including but not limited to reconciliation of  input, addressing author input, and communication with authors to ensure inclusion, transparency, and maintenance of compliance standards.
• Provides expert guidance to clients and author teams related to communication flow and content.  
• Delivers recommendations on appropriate conferences and journals for clients to submit abstracts, posters, and manuscripts in support of their stated objectives. 
• Provides input in creating and maintaining processes and procedures for publication development. 
• Proactively communicates with KJT team and clients to ensure clear agreement and understanding of project objectives, requirements, deliverables and executes these in accordance with client deadlines.  

Compliance and Commitment to Continuous Improvement

• Collaborates with other members of the Medical & Scientific Communications team to identify, develop, and maintain best practices and ensure adoption across projects.  
• Abides by established processes and documentation requirements as determined by KJT and defined by each client, for each project. 
• Adheres to department processes and identifies opportunities to gain efficiency. 
• Identifies when permissions need to be obtained for reproducing copyrighted material and work with appropriate program staff  to obtain them. 
• Follows governmental regulations and company SOPs for document preparation.

Information Security Management

The person in this role is responsible for being compliant with the KJT Group Information Security Policy and all other policies, processes, and documentation related to information security within KJT Group.

Key Competencies for Success:

• Proven medical writing skills (particularly experience with developing scientific peer reviewed publications, abstracts, and conference posters)
• Understanding of drug development, clinical research, study designs, biostatistics, pharmacology, and medical terminology.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage time effectively and prioritize tasks to meet a range of deadlines. 
• Professional integrity with an uncompromised orientation toward collaboration and leadership 
• Technologically astute with a strong aptitude for learning new platforms. 
• Fluent in English

Education/Experience:

• PhD/MPH in Life Sciences, PharmD, MD or similar field of study 
• A minimum of 2 years of experience with the following:
  • Medical communication/publication writing experience in an agency setting.
  • Collaborates with Medical & Scientific Communications team members to interface with clients, stakeholders, key opinion leaders, journal editors, and authors.
  • Analyzing and synthesizing information obtained through primary and secondary research into cohesive written communication deliverables.  
  • Working on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, client centric environment. 
• Preferred 
  • Evidence of medical writing career development desirable (e.g., AMWA certification, DIA training, or CMPP certification) 
  • Experience communicating real-world evidence results and/or health economics and outcomes primary research.

Computer Skills: 

• Microsoft Office with specific strength in Word, Excel, and Outlook 
• Experience working with Adobe Acrobat (creating and editing PDF files) and document review systems. 
• Experience with reference management software (e.g., EndNote) and editing software (e.g., PerfectIT) 

Travel Expectations 

This is a remote role that may involve travel up to 15% of the time. 

KJT is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.