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QUALIFICATIONS /REQUIREMENTS:

• University/college degree in a scientific discipline is required. Masters or PhD preferred.
• At least 10 years of relevant pharmaceutical/scientific experience; at least 8 years of relevant Medical Writing experience is required!
• At least 2 years of people management experience.
• Multiple therapeutic area experience preferred.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong oral and written communication skills. Fluent written and spoken English.
• Expert project management skills, expert project/process improvement leadership.
• Expert leadership skills (influencing, negotiating, assertiveness, taking initiative, conflict management, change management). Strong people management skills.
• Ability to delegate responsibility to junior writers.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and develop effective partnerships with key business partners and customers.
• Ability to recognize how to best interpret, summarize, and present statistical and medical information to ensure quality and accuracy of content in complex document types independently.
  Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
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• United Kingdom - Requisition Number: R-027208

• Belgium, Netherlands - Requisition Number: R-028681
• Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-028682
• United States - Requisition Number: R-028683
  Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

• Leading compound/submission/indication/disease area writing teams independently.
• May have additional major responsibility with supervision.
• Cross-functional, cross-TA, or cross-J&J initiative/collaboration.
• Larger organizational responsibility (eg, manage a subset of TA).
• Preparing and finalizing all types of clinical documents, taking a proactive or lead role in terms of content and scientific strategy. Working with a high level of independence and taking a lead role on with respect to timing, scheduling, and tracking.
• Leading program-level/submission writing teams independently.
• Directly leading or setting objectives for others on team projects and tasks.
• Guiding or training cross‐functional team members on processes, best practices; coach or mentor more junior writers.
• Proactively identifying, contributing to and championing Medical Writing process improvements, internal standards, regulatory, and publishing guidelines, internal systems, tools, and processes.
• Leading cross‐functional/cross‐TA, cross‐J&J process improvement initiatives, or other large process working groups.
• Developing, maintaining and disseminating knowledge of industry, company, and regulatory guidelines to internal and external audiences.
• If a lead writer for a program:
• Primary point of contact and champion for Medical Writing activities for the clinical team.
• Responsible for planning and leading the writing group for assigned program.
• Able to function as a lead writer on any compound independently.
• Leading discussions in Medical Writing and cross‐functional meetings as appropriate.
• Interacting with senior cross‐functional colleagues and external partners to strengthen coordination between departments.
• Able to oversee the work of external contractors.
• As a people manager:
• Manage direct reports in Medical Writing.
• Set objectives for individual team members. Regularly meets with direct reports to ensure appropriate development, projects, assignments, and issues are resolved.
• Ensures direct report’s adherence to established policies, procedural documents, and templates
• Able to make decision on hiring staff, onboarding new staff, conducting career and talent development discussions for staff, lead in goal setting and performance discussions.