Senior Specialist / Expert - Safety Medical Writer
Merck · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 47d ago
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About this role
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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more We know you've got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more We know you've got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
- Support Global Patient Safety (GPS) Safety Scientists and Safety Strategy Leads with regards to safety medical writing (SMW) activities.
- Assist senior staff in developing sections of a wide range of pharmacovigilance documents including but not limited to various Periodic Safety Reports, Signal Assessment Reports, Safety Strategy and Core Benefit-Risk Documents, Risk-Management Plans, Patient Safety Narratives and Health Hazard Reports.
- Responsible for proofreading, building and populating tables and drafting appendices.
- Produce high quality, accurate and fit-for purpose documents with clear conclusions.
- Effectively and clearly communicate technical, medical, and scientific information in critical submission and internal PV documents in order to deliver high quality reports within the specified timelines.
- Performs quality control of SMW deliverables for data accuracy, consistency, editing, and ensuring alignment with the processes, templates and regulations.
- Participate in meetings related to key PV activities.
- Collaborate cross functionally for continuous improvement of standards and best practices for medical writing
- Graduate degree or equivalent job experience with comprehensive pharmacovigilance knowledge of theories, principles and concepts, MD/PhD or advanced science degree.
- Excellent written and spoken English (including medical terminology) with a familiarity with AMA style guide.
- Profound pharmacovigilance experience (including 5 to 8 years experience in PSRs) required.
- Demonstrated experience in Periodic Safety Reports of interpretation & presentation of aggregate safety data.
- Strong knowledge of regulations and guidelines (FDA, EMA, ICH, EU GVP, etc.).
- Experience in working in electronic document management systems (EDMS), signal management and benefit-risk assessment is beneficial.
- Proven experience in ability to consistently produce documents of high quality and express complex data in a concise and easy-to-read way.
- Comprehensive experience in working in cross-functional, global teams, across different regions and time zones.
- A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning; readily adapts to changes.
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
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Skills
Health Hazard ReportsQuality control of SMW deliverablesSafety Strategy and Core Benefit-Risk DocumentsSignal Assessment Reportspharmacovigilancemedical writingrisk management plansSignal ManagementAMA Style GuideElectronic document management systemsBenefit-Risk AssessmentPatient Safety NarrativesProof Reading
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