R&A- Senior Regulatory Writer- SRW (Clinical focus)

Certara; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global biopharmaceutical organization is seeking a Senior Regulatory Writer to lead and participate in project teams focused on regulatory documentation. Candidates should have at least 3 years of regulatory writing experience and a Bachelor's degree. This role involves authoring documents per client specifications and regulatory guidelines, managing project budgets, and coaching junior staff. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong Microsoft Word proficiency and an understanding of the drug development lifecycle. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of regulatory writing experience or equivalent experience with clinical documentation.
• Experience in developing submission-level documents.
• Knowledge of regulatory authority guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams and author regulatory documents.
• Manage budgets for low complexity projects.
• Provide coaching to junior staff.

Skills

Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word

Understanding of drug development lifecycle

Ability to synthesize data

Strong problem-solving skills

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Overview

At Certara, we accelerate medicines to patients by partnering with life science innovators.

Certara is a global team that fosters and nurtures a diverse and inclusive culture. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. The collective sum of our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and unique capabilities and talent represents a significant part of our culture, our reputation and our achievement. Together with our partners, we use biosimulation and technology-enabled services to transform drug discovery and development across all therapeutic areas and innovative therapies.

Regulatory Writers prepare high quality documentation for regulatory submissions in order to help streamline the regulatory approval process for our clients. The Senior Regulatory Writer (SRW) is a major contributor to document authorship for a variety of documents across different service lines. The SRW will be the project lead on smaller projects, interfacing directly with the client, but also support larger, more complex engagements as a member of a larger delivery team. Certara is looking for individuals looking to use their expertise in clinical regulatory writing to lead teams and help clients achieve their goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead or participate in a project team which may be led by a Principal Regulatory Writer or Associate Principal Regulatory Writer
• Author documents per client specifications, templates, style guides, and other guidance documents
• Author documents per regulatory authority guidelines and requirements
• Act as client advisor, working with all parties to lead development of strategies for organizing and preparing regulatory documents
• Practice blameless problem solving, taking broad perspectives in resolving issues to prevent negative impact to work
• Manage budget for a low complexity project, including all contributors (writers, editors)
• Usher documents through the review process, conduct comment resolutions meetings (CRMs), and successfully lead a project team to consensus
• Maintain collaborative, proactive, and effective communication with both client and internal teams
• Lead or participate in project-related meetings and teleconferences
• Provide coaching to junior staff for study level documents

Qualifications

Education, Experience, Training, and Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 3+ years of regulatory writing experience or equivalent experience with clinical related documentation
• Understand regulatory authority guidelines and requirements to be able to lead an internal project team and anticipate the effects that writing practice conventions can have on the final product when seeking health authority approval/acceptance
• Experience in the development of submission-level documents (does not require functioning as a document lead)
• Experience in the development of clinical documents such as Clinical Study Reports, Investigator Brochures, protocols ISS and/or ISE

Skills & Abilities:

• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word skills (editing tools, creating and modifying tables and inserting figures) and document management techniques
• Strong understanding of the document creation process and of the drug development lifecycle
• Able to synthesize data across multiple data sources and documents to create summary reports
• Ability to conduct/lead a CRM and successfully lead a project team to consensus
• Ability to use logical arguments to persuade others when presenting ideas and suggestions, but also
• respond positively to opposing views voiced by others
• Develops professional relationships with clients as a way to further the business relationship and
• maintain current industry knowledge
• Ability to identify and institutionalize work practices that are most effective in order to ensure
• consistency in performance

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.