Total Exp - 5-8 Years
Education - M pharma or Phd in Pharmacology
Location - Gurgaon
Role Objective / Purpose
- To develop high-quality scientific content and documentation across therapeutic areas by conducting in-depth literature reviews, synthesizing data, and delivering clear, accurate, and audience-appropriate materials.
- The role involves contributing to both short- and long-term projects in the consumer healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, including medical, safety, pre-clinical, clinical, regulatory, educational, and promotional content.
- Additional responsibilities include editing, proofreading, reviewing, referencing, and verifying content to ensure adherence to high medical writing standards.
- The role ensures timely delivery of project milestones while maintaining quality, compliance, and business value.
Key Responsibilities
Literature Reviews and Evidence Mapping
- Conduct comprehensive secondary research/literature reviews and prepare overarching summaries using effective search strategies across scientific databases (e.g., PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library) and open-source platforms.
- Analyze and interpret clinical and scientific data to extract actionable insights.
- Stay current with trends, treatment guidelines, and regulatory updates in both OTC and Rx domains.
Medical and Scientific Content Development
- Leverage scientific expertise to create high-quality communication materials in the OTC and Rx space.
- Research, write, edit, organize, interpret, curate, and quality-check various types of scientific content across multiple formats and channels.
- Prepare, review, and edit a range of scientific documents, including:
- Literature reviews
- Manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
- Abstracts, posters, and slide decks for scientific conferences
- Treatment guideline summaries
- Publication summaries and white papers
- Ensure scientific accuracy, clarity, and compliance with applicable guidelines (e.g., ICMJE, CONSORT).
Content Review and Quality Assurance
- Review medical, promotional, and scientific materials in accordance with internal SOPs and external guidelines.
- Verify references and ensure content is plagiarism-free.
- Ensure clear, factual, and effective presentation of data and discussions.
- Maintain and apply templates, formats, and styles to ensure compliance with industry and client standards.
Project Execution
- Understand and define client requirements during project initiation, including objectives and timelines.
- Develop scientifically accurate and medically relevant content across therapeutic areas, adhering to branding and regulatory guidelines.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring quality and client satisfaction.
- Respond to and deliver ad-hoc client requests within agreed timelines.
- Collaborate with medical writing colleagues, the graphics team, and clients as needed.
Other Responsibilities
- Mentorship: Actively mentor team members to support effective task execution and goal achievement.
- Values and Behaviors: Consistently demonstrate WNS values and foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Personal Development: Identify learning and development needs in collaboration with the line manager and pursue relevant training opportunities.
Key Performance Indicators
Process-Related
- Domain Expertise: Quickly build subject matter expertise in assigned therapeutic areas.
- Efficiency: Develop effective search strategies, organize data for analysis, and prepare medical and scientific content.
- Accuracy: Validate sources, identify data gaps, and ensure scientific rigor.
- Quality: Deliver well-structured, grammatically sound, and visually engaging documents using appropriate templates and tone.
People-Related
- Demonstrate strong teamwork, collaboration, and professionalism.
- Actively participate in team meetings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and training initiatives.
Required Competencies & Skills
Must Have
- Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical, OTC, and consumer healthcare landscape.
- Clear grasp of medical, scientific, and statistical terminology and concepts.
- Robust knowledge of various types of clinical studies, the structure, and formats of different manuscript types (e.g., SLR, TLR, Meta-analysis), along with their relevance and application in evidence synthesis and utilization.
- Proven experience in scientific writing and literature analysis.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and online research tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail, critical thinking abilities, and the capacity to work independently.
- Demonstrated accountability, adaptability, and effective time management.
Good to Have
- Familiarity with regulatory documentation and compliance in US/EU markets.
- Exposure to text mining, data visualization tools, and scientific storytelling.
- Experience with reference management (e.g., EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley) and statistical (e.g., RevMan, SPSS, GraphPad Prism, R, SAS) tools.
- Knowledge of proprietary tools such as DataVision, PubPro, and Veeva Vault.
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