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  <id type="integer">116347</id>
  <reference-id>189071a</reference-id>
  <requisition-number></requisition-number>
  <source>Naturejobs.com - Ecommerce</source>
  <company-url>http://www.cactusglobal.com</company-url>
  <employer-url>http://www.cactusglobal.com</employer-url>
  <application-email>jobs@cactusglobal.com</application-email>
  <application-url>http://www.cactusglobal.com/careers/opening.html</application-url>
  <employer-name>Cactus Global</employer-name>
  <company-name>Cactus Global</company-name>
  <description>
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*Position:*

Head, Medical Writing

*Responsibilities:*

Documentation:
• Manage team to ensure timely production of high quality documents (manuscripts, abstracts, short communications, review articles) for publications in journals or for presentation in meetings and other written communication material supporting pharmaceutical brands, research activities, and business needs.
• Oversee the writing, preparation, and editing of documents, while ensuring that all necessary resources are available for the production of high quality documents within specified timelines
• Review work done by team members and provide appropriate feedback
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders, including authors & KOLs
• Develop work plans and ensure process compliance
• Facilitate document approval by external and internal stakeholders
• Manage team and establish cohesive team dynamics while managing conflicts and disagreements
• Act as document specialist and provide intellectual input across document types
• Develop training plans, and provide quality-related coaching or mentoring to team members, as appropriate
• Develop and maintain necessary templates, formats and styles to ensure that documents generated meet industry, internal, and client requirements
• Ensure audit readiness of systems and processes
• Identify best practices and suggest and implement process changes as and when required
• Conduct performance appraisals
• Create strategic plans

*Candidate Profile:*

Qualification: PhD/MBBS/MD

Will report to the CEO

Experience:
• At least 3-5 years of medical writing experience with at least 2-4 years of team management experience, preferably within a pharmaceutical writing environment.
• Advanced knowledge of clinical research processes and drug development, as well as CONSORT, ICMJE, and other such industry guidelines.
• Proven skills in writing and editing documents for publications, including interpretation and summarization of complex clinical data across multiple studies and phases
• Knowledge of document creation, review and management processes, and relevant IT tools
• Knowledge of methods and techniques for analysis and presentation of statistical results
• Excellent literature reviewing capabilities
• Excellent data interpretation and presentation skills
• Clear, concise scientific style of writing with a high level of attention to detail
• Ability to work under tight timelines
• Good written and oral English language skills
• ELS certification or willingness to prepare for and pass the BELS exam
• Functional with the software of Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

*Apply:* E-mail your updated CV along with a cover letter to jobs@cactusglobal.com or call Ruchika Chhabra on +912267148821
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  </description>
  <location>Mumbai 400053 India</location>
  <title>Head, Medical Writing</title>
  <created-on type="datetime">Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 -0400</created-on>
  <expires-on type="datetime">Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500</expires-on>
  <url>http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/116347-Head-Medical-Writing</url>
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    <package>Job Match</package>
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