Editor
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 an Editor 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 with an eagle eye for detail. Experience in establishing and maintaining robust and efficient newsroom processes with a focus on timeliness and accuracy.
Can you oversee a new team of specialized reporters who will identify and report on key industry news updates while maintaining and expanding a range of regular templated columns based on proprietary and external datasets? Can you take the initiative to suggest new content streams for our six publications and support your team through implementation? Can you liaise with editors around the world to ensure content produced in the different regions is complementary and tailored to the business needs of our subscribers? Can you ensure scrupulous adherence to our editorial style guide?
Join Citeline’s editorial team and lead the news agenda reporting on and analyzing developments in the global pharmaceutical industry.
Key Competencies
- Experience in managing editorial staff in a newsroom environment and overseeing timely, accurate publication of content.
- Knowledge of the global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medtech and/or consumer health industries and awareness of major issues affecting the sectors.
- Able to work with complex information and datasets and produce digestible content for a specialized audience.
- Able to innovate and demonstrate content development to continuously adapt to and meet client needs.
- Experience of working in a large global organization and communicating effectively with different stakeholders.
- Ability to manage and motivate a team and support their continuous development.
- Ability to participate in cross-functional teams; to lead and develop individuals and teams
- Excellent interpersonal skills with emphasis on the ability to gain the cooperation of sources.
- Consistently express an informed, knowledgeable interest in learning or contributing more to the editorial process for the benefit of the business.
- Embrace technological advances to support content creation.
General Knowledge/Skill
- Able to manage the creation and publishing of content; adheres to overlapping deadlines and juggles the numerous tasks required to get content to clients.
- Experience using newsfeed tools like Alphasense
- Experience using database products to supplement content creation or to identify trends and generate new content.
- Breadth and depth of knowledge and experience of the pharma and/or medtech industry – including the companies, dynamics (commercial, financial, regulatory and market access) and trends that shape the industry with particular expertise about a relevant sector.
- Be able to research and generate content or ideas across various subjects in pharma, biotech, medtech/consumer health – business (investment, R&D, M&A, financials), market developments, regulation and policy.
- Comfortable in managing creation of different types of editorial content (articles, newsletters, podcasts, social media, infographics, videos/webinars etc)
- Understanding of different outlets for content (eg newsletters, website, social media.
- Use of content across a publication to drive client engagement, usage and renewal of subscriptions.
- Experience of public speaking through presenting at conferences, chairing meetings and of interviewing and being interviewed with different media.
Required Education/Experience
- Professional exposure to business news production, preferably in the pharma or medtech markets.
- Previous roles writing and reporting on markets on client-side and/or within pharma or medtech news and media organizations.
- Journalism skills and knowledge to include: understanding complex scientific, regulatory and/or commercial issues, writing about them clearly and convincingly, exercising editorial judgment.
- Bachelor’s degree with focus on journalism and/or sciences, science policy, business/finance 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
