Sr. Publications Specialist

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads publication plan development and produces scientific content aimed at external audiences that maximizes awareness and accessibility.
• Writes, edits, and formats manuscripts, abstracts, and scientific presentations in collaboration with authors and contributors
• Develops an in-depth knowledge of key therapy and product areas, stays abreast of current literature relevant to CRM therapies and products (including competitors).
• Compiles, analyzes, and summarizes data for each writing project.
• Collaborates with physicians, clinical and statistics teams to plan and identify appropriate analysis plans.
• Oversee individual publication activities, requiring compliance with publication processes and procedures for Healthcare and target journals.
• Creates scientific messages to simplify complex information and maximize awareness for scientific audiences.
• Analyzes and optimizes content based on feedback and input from stakeholders and/or metrics.
• Create and manage the project schedule for each deliverable through final delivery (e.g. peer-review publication, scientific conference presentation) while in compliance to regulatory, medical society, and corporate standards.
• Interface with physicians, clinical leadership, and other stakeholders to align evidence dissemination activities and deliverables.
• Leads, coordinates and/or participates in Publication Committee meetings and administrates follow-up actions (e.g. document decisions).
• Support activities of the team at medical device congresses, as assigned.
• This may include attending publication planning meetings with investigators in Healthcare clinical trials, executing Healthcare sponsored symposia, and covering relevant scientific sessions.
• Maintain files on informative journal abstracts according to current or estimated future needs.
• Track and report on metrics related to CRM medical writing services to clinical leadership and key business partners.
• May serve as a medical/scientific consultant to marketing or research project teams and external stakeholders.
• May assist study personnel in providing interim and final reports and presentations.
• May manage portfolio of publication activities on assigned projects (e.g. collect input on strategic alignment, drive commitment decisions, communicate decisions to investigators).
• May participate in process improvement initiatives (including the need to create new tools, repositories, etc.).

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 4 years of clinical/ medical/ scientific writing experience or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years clinical/ medical/ scientific writing experience.
• Experience with peer reviewed manuscript development from clinical research/studies.
• Strong writing skills.
• Project management.