Senior Medical Information Writer

Sanofi India Ltd; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi India Ltd in Hyderabad is seeking a Senior Medical Information Writer to research, author and edit scientific response documents under the Global Medical Information team for global and local medical information activities.

You will adapt global documents for assigned countries, respond to escalated inquiries, and contribute to US NDA Annual Reports and cross-functional projects, while building therapeutic area expertise and ensuring timely, high-quality content.

Qualifications

• Experience in medical writing for pharmaceuticals or healthcare settings.
• 2–3 years of direct medical information experience preferred.
• Strong editing and writing skills with regulatory awareness.

Responsibilities

• Conduct literature searches and extract key data for summaries.
• Author scientific response documents under GMI guidance.
• Adapt global documents for assigned countries and respond to inquiries.
• Contribute to US NDA Annual Reports and compendia reviews.
• Collaborate with Global Medical Information teams to implement content plans.

Skills

Medical writing

Scientific writing

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in life sciences/pharmacy or medical degree

Job description

Senior Medical Information Writer

Our Team: Sanofi Global Hub is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is set up to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, R&D, Data & Digital functions. Sanofi Global Hub strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, globally.

Main responsibilities: Responsible for research and authoring of scientific response documents under the direction of the Global Medical Information (GMI) team in support of global and local medical information activities. Responsible for the execution of activities as required in alignment with GMI colleagues. Achieved through a combination of product knowledge, along with editing, writing, and document management proficiency.

Essential Job duties and responsibilities

1. Conducts literature searches and reviews, and extracts/summarizes complex data from the scientific literature.
2. Generates evidence-based, accurate, current, and fair-balanced summaries of data for the creation/maintenance of scientific response documents for products in designated therapeutic area(s).
3. Adapts global scientific response documents for assigned countries.
4. Develops responses to escalated inquiries for assigned countries.
5. Develops contributions to US NDA Annual Reports.
6. Contributes to US compendia reviews.
7. Contributes to peer reviews.
8. Demonstrates resolve and urgency to accomplish tasks without direct authority or control. Participate in cross-functional project teams as needed. Ensure that assigned projects are completed on schedule.
9. Develops and maintains Therapeutic Area expertise.
10. Reviews the content created by peer writers.
11. Collaborates effectively with Global Medical Information teams to execute content plans.

People

1. Maintain effective relationships with the end stakeholders (Medical scientific community) within the allocated Global business unit and product – with an end objective to develop medical information content as per requirement.
2. Interact effectively with stakeholders in medical and pharmacovigilance departments.
3. Constantly assist other medical information writers in developing knowledge and sharing expertise.

Performance: Provide deliverables (scientific response documents, US NDA Annual Reports, US compendia reviews) as per agreed timelines and quality.

Process

1. Act as an expert in the field of medical information writing and maintain on the regulatory requirement for countries supported.
2. Assist the assigned medical information team in conducting a comprehensive medical writing needs analysis.
3. Implement relevant elements of content plans and associated activities for the year identified for the assigned countries.
4. Work with selected vendors within the region to deliver the required deliverables as per the defined process.
5. Design an overall plan of action basis end-customers feedback & improve course content and delivery.

Stakeholders

1. Work closely with medical teams in regions/areas to identify medical writing needs and assist in developing assigned deliverables.
2. Liaise with the Medical department to prepare relevant & customized deliverables.

About you

Experience : >5 years of experience in medical writing for the pharmaceuticals/ healthcare industry or equivalent experience in a clinical setting; At least 2-3 years of direct medical information experience in a pharmaceutical company

Soft skills : Stakeholder management; communication skills; and ability to work independently and within a team environment

Technical skills : As applicable (Including but not limited to Medical operational excellence, time, and risk management skills, Excellent technical (medical) editing and writing skills, Knowledge about literature evaluation and multilevel response development)

Education : Advanced degree in life sciences/ pharmacy/ similar discipline, or medical degree or doctorate degree (PharmD, Ph.D, Master in science, MBA or equivalent)

Languages : Excellent knowledge of the English language (spoken and written)

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com !

Pursue progress , discover extraordinary Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity. Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com !

Experience Level Senior Level