Expert Scientific Writer

Sanofi US; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare company is seeking an experienced professional to manage complex medical content development. The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, strong stakeholder collaboration skills, and an advanced degree in life sciences or pharmacy. This role involves working closely with medical teams and ensuring high-quality publication materials.

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth

Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

Supportive team culture

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in content creation for the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry or academia.
• 4+ years of experience leading a therapeutic area.
• Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Maintain effective relationship with end stakeholders.
• Provide publication/medical education materials as per timelines and quality.
• Develop complex publication/medical education material.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Content creation

Ability to work independently

Education

Advanced degree in life sciences or pharmacy

Job description

About the Job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Sanofi Business Operations (BO) is an internal Sanofi resource organization set up to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. BO strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, globally.

To create complex and specialized content without supervision; manage end-to-end publication / medical education content development process including documentation and approval in PromoMats/iEnvision (previously-Datavision/MATRIX); develop and maintain therapeutic area expertise; coach and review content created by junior scientific writers; work in close collaboration with peers/team to develop best practices; and collaborate effectively with stakeholders.

Main Responsibilities

People

• Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders (medical scientific community) within the allocated Global Business Unit and product – with an end objective to develop education and communication content as per requirement
• Interact effectively with health care professionals on publication content
• Constantly assist writers (senior or junior) in developing knowledge and sharing expertise

Performance

• Provide publication/medical education material (slide deck, abstract, poster, manuscript etc.) as per agreed timelines and quality
• Provide strategic support with individuals and institutions, which may serve as resources for publications purposes

Process Management

• Develop complex publication/medical education material
• Act as an expert in the field of medical communication for the assigned therapeutic area(s)
• Assist the assigned scientific communication team in conducting comprehensive publication-need analysis
• Implement the publication plan and associated activities for the year identified for the region
• Work with selected vendors within the region to deliver the required deliverables as per defined process
• Leverage advanced training delivery tools and techniques thereby enhancing the effectiveness of training delivery
• Design an overall plan of action based on end-user feedback and improve course content and delivery

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with scientific communication teams in regions/areas to identify publication needs and assist in developing assigned deliverables
• Liaise with medical department to prepare relevant and customized deliverables

About You

• 7+ years of experience in content creation for the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, or academia; 4+ years of experience leading a TA
• Stakeholder management; communication skills; and ability to work independently and within a team environment
• As applicable (including but not limited to therapeutic area/domain knowledge exposure; publication submission; and/or project management)
• Advanced degree in life sciences/pharmacy/similar discipline or medical degree
• Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Collaborate in a dynamic, fast-paced environment focused on continuous learning and professional development.
• Drive process improvement and innovation in partnership with a motivated and supportive team.

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.

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