Senior Medical Writer (Publications) North America

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Wilmington, NC

1d • Remote

About The Position

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing to life our Mission: enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Effective communication of evidence and information is essential to conveying the value of products. Our highly trained staff provide medical writing services for the peri- and post-approval phases of the product lifecycle, helping to create a consistency in quality and voice. Our writers prepare documents that are clear, concise, compelling, and scientifically accurate, while also ensuring they are fully aligned with regulations, industry standards, and corporate guidance. Discover Impactful Work The Publications and Scientific Communications team, part of the Medical Writing and Healthcare Communications department at Thermo Fisher Scientific, prepares medical publications, abstracts, posters, presentations, and other scientific communications. Our dynamic, highly collaborative team focuses on providing quality writing to internal collaborators and external pharmaceutical and biotech clients.

Requirements

• Extensive proven experience as a writer of peer-reviewed medical publications (comparable to 5+ years)
• Excellent scientific writing, project management, and digital literacy
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a scientific field; advanced degree preferred
• In-depth knowledge of different therapeutic areas
• Sound professional judgement in dealing with inquiries, issues, and customer concerns
• Able to independently make decisions and solve problems
• Comfortable working on multiple projects concurrently
• Able to prioritize and delegate tasks effectively
• Able to complete work within fixed budgets and timelines and to facilitate conflict resolution among team members and clients

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a CRO environment preferred
• Experience of generating publication extenders (e.g., plain language summaries, video/graphical abstracts) advantageous
• Experience of publication planning/strategy advantageous
• Additional qualifications (e.g., EMWA or CMPP certification) advantageous

Responsibilities

• Write, edit, and manage manuscripts, posters, abstracts, oral presentation slide decks, and review articles, on time, within budget, and with little instruction
• Raise and help resolve project management issues, such as out-of-scope requests
• Ensure compliance with quality processes and industry standards
• Represent the team as the lead contact on projects
• Lead or provide input on process improvements

Benefits

• The company provides resources needed to achieve individual career goals.
• Opportunity to work on life-changing therapies.
• Opportunity to improve health outcomes.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic, highly collaborative team.
• Opportunity to work with internal collaborators and external pharmaceutical and biotech clients.
• Opportunity to work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior