Clinical Editor

ICON Clinical Research; Reading; Remote; GBP 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Job summary

ICON Strategic Solutions is seeking a Clinical Editor to ensure accuracy and quality of clinical and regulatory documents produced by Medical Writing. The role involves editing, fact-checking, and ensuring alignment with guidelines and templates.

The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline and at least 3 years of medical editing experience, with fluent English and strong Word/PDF skills. This remote position supports ICON’s global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline
• At least 3 years of experience in medical editing or scientific writing in a clinical research or pharmaceutical setting
• Knowledge of medical terminology and understanding of clinical research processes and regulations
• Excellent language skills in reading, writing, editing, and team communication
• Ability to interpret clinical data and literature
• AMA Manual of Style and other guidelines relevant to projects
• Fluent in English
• Basic understanding of Acrobat/PDF software

Responsibilities

• Perform quality reviews and edit clinical documents, regulatory submissions, and related materials
• Carry out data accuracy checks and fact-check statements in clinical and regulatory documents and literature
• Substantively edit and proofread for grammar, style, and format
• Ensure consistency of documents with internal, client, and authority guidelines
• Format, style, and troubleshoot documents and templates
• Coordinate with medical writers and team members to ensure accuracy
• Ensure inspection-readiness of medical writing activities

Skills

Medical editing

English fluency

Editing and proofreading

Clinical data interpretation

Team communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline

Tools

Microsoft Word

Adobe Acrobat/PDF

Job description

Clinical Editor

At ICON Strategic Solutions, you will work in a sponsor-dedicated model, supported by ICON’s global expertise.

As the world’s largest FSP organisation, with over 90 sponsor partnerships, we offer stability, career development and a collaborative environment where your work contributes to the development of treatments that benefit patients worldwide.

As a Medical Editor at ICON, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of content in clinical and regulatory documents prepared by Medical Writing.

What You Will Do:

You will take responsibility for editorial and content services deliverables, applying your skills to ensure quality and efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for performing quality reviews and editing clinical documents, regulatory submissions, and other related documents

• Performs detailed data accuracy reviews and fact-checks statements in clinical and regulatory documents, tables, literature summaries, and other internal documents

• Substantively edits and proofreads documents to correct and streamline grammar, spelling, style, and format

• Verifies that document content is consistent with internal, client, and related authority guidelines

• Formats, styles, and troubleshoots functionality and presentation of documents and templates

• Communicates with medical writers and other team members to ensure the accuracy of documents

• Responsible for inspection-readiness of medical writing activities

Your Profile:

You will bring relevant editorial and content services experience, along with the following qualifications and skills.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline

• At least 3 years of experience in medical editing or scientific writing, preferably within a clinical research or pharmaceutical environment.

• Strong knowledge of medical terminology and an understanding of clinical research processes and regulations.

• Excellent language skills (reading, writing, editing, team communication)

• Ability to interpret clinical data and literature

• Knowledge of AMA Manual of Style, other style guides, and any guidelines related to assigned projects

• Expertise in Microsoft Word, including advanced formatting, styles, cross-referencing, bookmarks, and other related skills

• Fluent in English

• Basic understanding of Acrobat/PDF software

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What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements

• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.

• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.

• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Life assurance

• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site (https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits) to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here (https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations)