Senior Medical Writer, Scientific Intelligence

What You’ll Do

The Senior Medical Writer, Scientific Intelligence is responsible for strategically aligned and accurate materials that meet the high-quality standards of Vaniam Group. This role is fully AI-enabled, leveraging AI to drive efficient, elevated client delivery. You will play a role in managing client satisfaction and relationships. In addition, you are responsible for supporting business improvement by meeting personal and departmental goals and objectives effectively and on time. 

A Day in the Life

Deliverables

• Develop high-quality content for an array of projects, including publications
  (eg, abstracts, presentations, and manuscripts), advisory boards, scientific platforms, gap analyses, literature summaries, slide sets, and training materials
• Develop materials that are grammatically accurate and audience appropriate
• Leverage AI-enabled tools and workflows to produce content efficiently and at elevated quality standards, maintaining scientific rigor throughout

Client Responsibility

• Identify challenges and implement solutions to meet productivity, quality, and client goals while maintaining compliance standards 
• Gain an understanding of the treatment landscape and strategic positioning of client products to help produce strategically aligned materials
• Assess project needs and challenges; identify and implement solutions to meet productivity, quality, and client goals while maintaining compliance standards
• Participate in client meetings and answer questions about projects when necessary
• Apply AI capabilities to accelerate deliverable turnaround times and elevate the quality of client-facing content, ensuring outputs reflect the highest standards of scientific accuracy and strategy

Internal Responsibility 

• Build strong partnerships with and understand the importance of meeting the needs of internal teams
• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize time to manage duties, communicating proactively when unable to meet timelines
• Work on multiple projects concurrently, prioritizing appropriately through all stages of planning and development
• Collaborate with team to execute project and meet deadlines
• Emerging ability to assess areas for opportunity and improvement
• Actively contribute to the ongoing improvement of Vaniam Group’s LLM by applying and sharing deep scientific and therapeutic area expertise to inform, validate, and refine AI outputs

Business Development

• Ensures that work is of the highest quality and instills confidence for clients
• Assist with development of project strategy with Scientific Leads
• Think strategically about work and develop an awareness of the work's impact on business strategy
• Work with team to identify opportunities for organic growth and/or new business

Other duties may be assigned to help drive deliverables within this role.

What You Must Have  

Education and Experience

• PhD in life sciences, MD, or PharmD
• At least 2 years of work experience in an agency, the pharmaceutical industry, or a related scientific or medical writing position. Preference will be given for experience in hematologic or solid tumor oncology

Skills and Competencies

• Commitment to ethical and transparent data dissemination standards
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic team environment
• Excellent interpersonal, organization, verbal, and written communication skills
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills and ability to synthesize complex or diverse information
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyze information skillfully, develop alternative solutions, and work well in group problem-solving solutions
• Strong attention to detail and listening skills
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and have excellent time management skills
• Highly proficient with the following: MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe, Google or similar calendar system, familiarity with EndNote, and Zoom (or other similar systems) preferred
• Proficiency in AI-enabled writing and research tools; demonstrated comfort and effectiveness working within fully AI-integrated workflows

What You Might Have, but Isn’t Required 

• At least 1 year of experience as an oncology (solid tumors and/or hematologic malignancies) medical writer

Travel Requirements 

• Travel within the US and internationally as necessary, based on project, sponsor, and organizational needs (<20% travel expected)

The Team You’ll Work Closest With

You will work closely with the broad Scientific & Strategic Services team and partner with Client Services, Editorial, and Creative departments depending on the project need.

Salary offers are based upon several factors including experience, education, skills, training, demonstrated qualifications, location, and organizational need. The range for this role is $90,000-115,000. Salary is one component of the total earnings and rewards package offered.

About Us:    

Vaniam Group is a people-first, purpose-driven, independent network of healthcare and scientific communications agencies committed to helping biopharmaceutical companies realize the full potential of their compounds in the oncology and hematology marketplace. Founded in 2007 as a virtual-by-design organization, Vaniam Group harnesses the talents and expertise of team members around the world. For more information, visit www.VaniamGroup.com.