Senior Clinical Editor

Pharmaceutical Research Associates, Inc; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Medical Editor to support a global biotech client. This home-based role involves quality control of clinical documents, ensuring compliance with submission standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong editorial background and experience in pharmaceutical writing. ICON offers a competitive salary and diverse benefits focused on well-being and work-life balance.

Benefits

Various annual leave entitlements

Health insurance options for you and your family

Retirement planning options

Global Employee Assistance Programme

Life assurance

Flexible country-specific benefits

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in pharmaceutical medical writing, QC, editing, or publishing.
• Strong knowledge of editorial and publishing activities within Clinical Development.

Responsibilities

• Perform QC review of clinical documents to ensure compliance with standards.
• Copyedit and proofread documents for grammar, style, and formatting.
• Verify data against source documents and manage references.

Skills

Editing

Proofreading

Quality Control

Data Verification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in English, Basic Science, Business, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Visio

Adobe

EDMS platforms

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Medical Editor, you will support a global mid-sized biotech company. While being stably employed with ICON, you will be fully embedded with our client.

The position is home-based anywhere in Europe or the UK. Your contribution will focus on solid and liquid tumors. Working for our client, you will benefit from ICON's learning opportunities and the potential to build a long-term career.

This role involves quality control (QC) review of clinical documents intended for submission to health authorities worldwide. The Senior Medical Editor will copyedit, proofread, format, and verify data content in clinical documents according to SOPs and processes to ensure standards are met. The role may also include overseeing workload for other editors, establishing schedules, and interacting with cross-functional authors. The activities require minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

• Perform QC review of documents (e.g., clinical study protocols, amendments, CSRs, Investigator's Brochures, Module 2 clinical summaries) to ensure compliance with style guides and submission standards.
• Verify data against source tables, figures, and listings; format tables according to standards.
• Copyedit and proofread clinical documents for grammar, style, and formatting in line with AMA and company style guides.
• Ensure internal consistency and correct reporting of data, confirming statements reflect source documents or data (e.g., SAS tables and listings).
• Check reference lists, verify citation information against PubMed, manage references in EDMS, and ensure cross-referencing within documents.
• Proofread documents against standard templates to ensure compliance with required sections and text.
• Publish nonclinical and clinical documents and compile necessary CSR appendices as needed.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Basic Science, Business, or related field with 3+ years of experience in pharmaceutical medical writing, QC, editing, or publishing.
• Strong knowledge of editorial and publishing activities within Clinical Development.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word (formatting tables, styles, cross-references, templates), with experience in PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Adobe.
• Knowledge of Adobe PDF bookmarking and hyperlinking for submission standards.
• Experience with EDMS platforms (e.g., Veeva Vault, SharePoint).

What ICON can offer you: Our success depends on our people. We prioritize building a diverse culture that rewards performance and nurtures talent. Besides a competitive salary, ICON offers benefits focused on well-being and work-life balance, including:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• Health insurance options for you and your family
• Retirement planning options
• Global Employee Assistance Programme (TELUS Health) with 24/7 access to support professionals
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific benefits like childcare vouchers, bike schemes, gym discounts, travel passes, health assessments, and more.