Director, Global Medical Writing

Job Description

This is an exciting leadership opportunity for a person with passion and talent. The company believes that medical writing is a science that continuously evolves with new regulations and technologies. The role provides the ability to influence company leaders and work on exciting fastpaced drug development programs. This is your chance to join a dynamic Medical Writing team and be part of an emerging success story driven by the company’s unwavering commitment to patients and employees.

The Role:

The Medical Writing team is looking for an experienced, selfmotivated individual knowledgeable of the current MW landscape to serve as Director, Medical Writing. The individual will be responsible for leading document strategy and development of complex clinical documents across programssubmissions.

The position reports to the Senior Director, Global Medical Writing.

What You’ll Do:

• Handson role focused on writing responsibilities, including acting as the Lead Medical Writer for complex studiesdocuments such as master protocols, investigator’s brochures, clinical study reports, and clinical summary documents
• Mentor junior medical writers as needed
• Overall responsibility for planning, implementing, and adhering to medical writing timelines for studyprogram needs
• Represent Medical Writing on crossfunctional clinical, regulatory, and submission teams and actively participate in NDAMAAIND submission planning and preparation
• Strong team player and a change agent who further reinforcesenhances Deciphera’s cultural values
• Excellent collaboration and people management skills with crossfunctional partners and broader organization and outside agencies
• Leadparticipate in significant workstreams that involve work across departments and with external vendors; may include participation in initiatives such as document templates, process development, automation of safety narratives, , and document reviewingauthoring tools
• Developing and participating in department training and SOP development
• Performing reviews of medical writing deliverables, as well as reviews of statistical analysis plans, tables, figures, and listings, as needed
• Maintains cutting edge knowledge base of current developments in field and related technologies
• Represent Medical Writing in Inspection Readiness and participate in GCP Audits and Inspections

• Qualifications

  What You’ll Bring:

  • PhD or equivalent plus 8+ years of experience, or MastersBachelors plus 12+ years of experience
  • Extensive experience authoring regulatory and clinical documents for global submissions, including strong submission experience across ICH regions (NDA, NDS, MAA, IND) with active contribution in planning and preparation of summary documents
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to detail related to consistency, grammar, syntax, and accuracy
  • Experience producing high quality clinical documents
  • Knowledge of clinical trial disclosure
  • Strong organizationalprioritization skills for the management of multiple concurrent documents
  • Demonstrated proficiency with eCTD Starting Point templates, Smart Sheet, databases, presentation software (MS Office skills such as Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint), Veeva Vault, and Please Review
  • Oncology, immunology andor neurology experience is highly preferred

  • Additional Information

    Deciphera is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary pay range for this role is $182,000.00 $250,000. Actual compensation packages will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to depth of experience, education, skillset, overall performance andor location.​

    Deciphera believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package to all employees. Our base salary is just one component of Deciphera’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual performance bonus, a longterm incentive plan, full range of benefits and other incentive compensation plans (if applicable)

    Benefits:

    • Competitive salary and annual bonus.
    • Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with company match, and more.
    • Generous parental leave and family planning benefits.
    • Outstanding culture and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

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