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Senior Medical Writer

Role overview

Summary

The role of Senior Medical Writer at Thermo Fisher Scientific focuses on delivering high-quality medical and scientific writing while collaborating with internal and external clients. This position supports operational excellence and project management, enabling scientific teams to concentrate on content and strategy.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3–5 years of working experience, preferably in business management, data science in medicine, pharmacy, natural science, medicine, digital technologies, project management or communication science.
  • Excellent data interpretation and medical writing skills, including grammatical, editorial, and proofreading skills.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong presentation skills.
  • Significant knowledge of global, regional, national and other document development guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the operational framework for CDO Medical Writing, ensuring timely, high-quality document delivery.
  • Enable operational excellence through planning, coordination, project management, and technical support.
  • Manage external partners, contracts, budgets, timelines, and quality oversight.
  • Provide advisory and operational support to allow scientific teams to focus on content and strategy.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Grammar
  • Social Skills
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Problem Solving
  • Decision Making

About the company

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

  • Biotech & Genomics
  • 10,001+
About Thermo Fisher Scientific Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

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Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Join Us as a Senior Medical Writer - Make an Impact at the Forefront of Innovation


The Senior Medical Writer provides high-quality medical and scientific writing from planning and coordination through delivery of final drafts to internal and external clients and demonstrates subject matter and therapeutic area expertise. The Senior Medical Writer may assist program manager. The role involves collaborating with internal and external clients, supporting and enabling effective and efficient communication that results in operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive the operational framework for CDO Medical Writing, ensuring timely, high-quality document delivery.
  • Enable operational excellence through planning, coordination, project management, and technical support.
  • Manage external partners, contracts, budgets, timelines, and quality oversight.
  • Provide advisory and operational support to allow scientific teams to focus on content and strategy.
  • Support key service areas (e.g., planning & budgeting, quality control, external partner management, lay project management, technical writing), covering up to two areas simultaneously.

Educational Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3–5 years of working experience, or comparable qualification, preferably in e.g. business management, data science in medicine, pharmacy, natural science, medicine or digital technologies, project management or communication science or any other relevant field with at least 3 years of professional experience, preferably in clinical operations or related areas.

Years of experience refers to typical years of related experience needed to gain the required knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the essential functions of the job. Years of experience are not to be used as the only determining factor in establishing the job class or making employment selection decisions.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
• Excellent data interpretation and medical writing skills, including grammatical, editorial, and proofreading skills
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including problem solving
• Strong negotiation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong presentation skills
• Significant knowledge of global, regional, national and other document development guidelines
• In-depth knowledge in a specialty area such as preclinical, therapeutic, regulatory submissions, communications, etc.
• Great judgment and decision-making skills
• Excellent computer skills and skilled with client templates; Good knowledge of document management systems and other relevant applications (e.g. Excel, Outlook)

Working Conditions and Environment:
• Work is performed in an office environment.
• Exposure to electrical office equipment.
• Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.
• Long, varied hours required occasionally.

Why Join Us?

When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you become part of a global team that values passion, innovation, and a commitment to scientific excellence. You’ll work in an environment where collaboration and development are part of the everyday experience—and where your contributions truly make a difference.

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