Reporter
About Norstella
At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.
Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.
Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:
Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics
By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.
The Role
At Citeline (a Norstella company), we have an exciting opportunity for a Reporter/Journalist to join our international editorial team and become part of an industry-leading pharma, medtech and consumer health intelligence business.
Our editorial team is passionate about delivering accurate, timely, and impactful information that shapes industry decisions. Our dedicated team of writers based in countries around the world collaborate around the clock to keep our subscribers up to date, not just on what’s happening in the pharma/medtech/consumer health industries, but what it means for them. You’d be joining a group of products with an 80+-year reputation for in-depth news and analysis and a wealth of journalistic experience, industry knowledge and high-level contacts.
We're looking for someone who can turn around specialized biopharma/medtech industry news stories accurately and fast.
Do you have experience of news reporting for a business audience? Can you digest the key points of a company press release and reference other sources to bring our professional audience context and actionable insights? Complement your writing with compelling data charts and graphs? Source original stories from databases and industry analysis? Develop new formats for presenting valuable information? Work to tight deadlines while maintaining an eagle eye for detail? Then we want to hear from you.
Join Citeline's editorial team and keep our subscribers abreast of the key developments in the global pharmaceutical/medtech/biotech/consumer health industry.
Duties and responsibilities
In a typical week you could:
- Write on issues such as
- Company deal making or financial updates
- Company leadership and strategy
- Pipeline progress for medicines in development
- Therapeutic area market intelligence
- Scientific conference coverage
- Regulatory and policy changes
- Market access, pricing and reimbursement
- Developments in specific global markets
- Source secondary analysis or data to augment your articles
- Compose new editions of templated columns". Or "collaborate with international colleagues to produce templated columns and tables on a regular basis.
- Collaborate with international colleagues on reporting about key industry conferences globally developing your knowledge and specialist reporting of a particular topic of interest to industry
SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:
We are looking for an experienced business journalist who can write engaging content to tight deadlines. Knowledge of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries will be an advantage.
We also welcome applications from candidates who can convincingly demonstrate:
- Ability to write clearly, news writing skills, and keen judgment;
- Ability to understand and interpret data – and to leverage internal data assets to create original content
- Intellectual curiosity – ie: desire for knowledge, preparedness to ask and learn, and an authentic interest in other perspectives;
- Ability to extract key messages from complex information and communicate these effectively and succinctly (through written word/other formats)
- High attention to detail, with the ability to consistently deliver articles requiring minimal editing
- Desire to experiment and innovate with new formats and approaches
- Collaborative approach to working with colleagues across the business
- Flexibility to cope with challenging workloads and occasional unexpected scheduling;
- Computer literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) – and capacity to learn custom editorial systems and infographic tools
- Embrace digital tools and innovation that support creation of high-quality journalism and content
- You should have a degree in journalism, sciences, languages or economics or equivalent career experience.
Our guiding principles for success at Norstella
01: Bold, Passionate, Mission-First
We have a lofty mission to Smooth Access to Life Saving Therapies and we will get there by being bold and passionate about the mission and our clients. Our clients and the mission in what we are trying to accomplish must be in the forefront of our minds in everything we do.
02: Integrity, Truth, Reality
We make promises that we can keep, and goals that push us to new heights. Our integrity offers us the opportunity to learn and improve by being honest about what works and what doesn’t. By being true to the data and producing realistic metrics, we are able to create plans and resources to achieve our goals.
03: Kindness, Empathy, Grace
We will empathize with everyone's situation, provide positive and constructive feedback with kindness, and accept opportunities for improvement with grace and gratitude. We use this principle across the organization to collaborate and build lines of open communication.
04: Resilience, Mettle, Perseverance
We will persevere – even in difficult and challenging situations. Our ability to recover from missteps and failures in a positive way will help us to be successful in our mission.
05: Humility, Gratitude, Learning
We will be true learners by showing humility and gratitude in our work. We recognize that the smartest person in the room is the one who is always listening, learning, and willing to shift their thinking.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Provident Fund
- Life Insurance
- Reimbursement of Certification Expenses
- Gratuity
- 24x7 Health Desk
