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Position Description:
The Senior Medical Writer Commercial Learning Services (CLS) is responsible for the development of medical content including but not limited to creating/updating wireframes, building reference packages, creating/updating learning content for product trainings for assigned areas at both Global and affiliate level. The Medical Writer will anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks, interface with Lilly partners at Indianapolis and LCCI and integrate new business processes where necessary. Using strong adult learning principles, Medical Writer ensures quality design, development, and delivery of training development projects. This role will interact with a wide variety of people both in LCCI and the US, at varying levels of the business. The role will report to Manager-CLS at LCCI.
Key Objectives/Deliverables:
Medical Writing (Content Development)
- Partners with learning consultants and business partners to effectively gather and evaluate source content from multiple sources.
- Plans (including organizing/preparing outlines), write (including first-draft authoring), edit, review, and coordinate the creation of medical learning content (storyboard)
- Ensures that key content, scientific concepts, elements from internal guidance and resource documents are included appropriately in all learning content, and that all documents are well written, usable/executable, and compliant with policies and procedures.
- Ensures proper documentation of needed references and attribution of source material.
- Ensures and coordinates quality checks for accuracy, collate reviewer’s comments, adjust content of training as required based on internal/external input, and prepare final version.
- Drives quality standards through review of project documents, design, deliverables, final learning content and evaluation data.
Project and Stakeholder management
- Lead the writing process and apply effective project management skills to ensure timely completion of high-quality regulatory documents.
- Effectively manage multiple projects and exhibit flexibility in moving across therapeutic areas, and products, depending on project assignment.
- Builds, communicates, and manages credible project timelines.
- Influences or negotiates changes of timelines and content with other team members.
- Anticipates and mitigates risks to delivery.
- Anticipates and resolves project/program issues, escalating as appropriate.
Knowledge Sharing and Development
- Maintains and enhances therapeutic area knowledge including disease state and compound(s) for assigned project(s).
- Maintains and enhances the medial writing skills to align with the audience needs and with the changes in technology and platforms.
- Provides coaching to others by sharing technical information, giving guidance, answering questions.
- Networks with others (including other functions and regions) to identify and share best practices.
- Contributes to process improvements, suggesting opportunities where appropriate.
Basic Requirements:
- Demonstrated experience in technical scientific or medical writing.
- Demonstrated excellence with program/project management and time management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to establish strong business relationships.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Demonstrated ability in conflict resolution, judgment and managing complexity.
- Ability to prioritize work and balance multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong work ethic, personal motivation, and team player who is dynamic and result oriented
- Good presentation skills, interpersonal and communication skills, fluent (verbal and written) in English.
- Ability to operate effectively in an international matrix environment, with ability to work across time zones.
Additional Preferences:
- Experience writing regulatory, clinical trial documents, publications and/or writing deliverables for Medical Affairs communications (slide decks, patient, or HCP materials, etc.).
- Experience working in a regulated environment.
- Experience working with US organizations.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Demonstrated high-level end-user computer skills (e.g., word processing, tables and graphics, spreadsheets, presentation and templates).
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, health, communications, technology health related field
Other Information:
Travel may be required.
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