Medical Writer/Communications Specialist (Remote)

About Xelay Acumen

Xelay Acumen, Inc is a boutique strategy and management consulting firm serving primarily biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and health care provider clients. 

Our consulting engagements focus exclusively on high value-add for our clients most critically important issues and challenges.

Role

We are seeking an experienced full-time Medical Writer/Medical Communications Specialist. This is a position for industry-experienced professionals who have at least 2 or more years of medical writing experience, preferably within the biotech or pharmaceutical industry. This role is a hand's-on content development position. 

Responsibilities

• Working within the position specification, particularly with respect to time allocation
• Developing content for a variety of clinically-oriented products (slide kits, manuscripts, posters for pharmaceutical clients)
• Ensuring writing is of high scientific and literary standards and meets objectives
• Undertaking research in the therapeutic area to allow effective writing
• Incorporate editorial comments and solve queries to present a 'finished' final document 
• Ensuring understanding and implementation of all company procedures and quality standards
• Engaging Key Opinion Leaders and clinical trial investigators who partner with the client to author publications
• Work includes 
  • Medical Education materials (Advisory Boards, Speaker Programs, Slide Decks, etc.)
  • Abstracts and articles
  • Manuscripts
  • Multimedia projects
  • Posters
  • Speaker training materials
  • Slide kits /Slide presentations

Work for advisory board meetings (creating meeting agendas and slide presentations, speaker training program content, comprehensive post-meeting reports, etc.)

Desired Qualifications: 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of science or an aptitude for understanding it, including the ability to learn new therapeutic areas quickly
• Ability to write (medical writers must be able to write clearly at a level appropriate to the audience and the project)
• Deadline-oriented
• Attention to detail
• Accuracy, logical organization
• Clear thinking and writing

Requirements: 

• RN, MS, RPh, PhD, MD, PharmD degree
• 2+ years of medical communications writing experience
• Ability to work remotely
• Strong ability in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with graphics software (i.e., Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop) preferable, but not a requirement

Interested parties should apply via https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XelayAcumenJobs

(All materials are required to be in English)