Scientific Writer, Team Leader

Sanofi
Full Time
₹13 lakhs - ₹32 lakhs
Hyderabad
Posted 23h ago

Scientific Writer, Team Leader

Sanofi

Job description

Do you want to lead a team of scientific writers and provide strategic input into publication within a therapeutic area? We have a vacancy for a Scientific writer team leader role at Sanofi in Hyderabad. The role will involve providing guidance and coaching to expert and senior writers, providing strategic input as a thought partner to therapeutic areas and working with stakeholders to deliver high quality publications and medical education content.

Company Description  

Sanofi Business Operations (BO) is an internal Sanofi resource organization setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. They aim to provide strategic and functional support to Medical, HEVA & Commercial organisations, globally, to deliver tactics.

Job Summary

The Scientific writer team leader will provide functional input into assigned therapeutic areas (TA) and processes. The role will provide strategic input as a thought partner to the TA Scientific Communication Lead. This role will also involve leading and developing a team of expert and senior writers, providing input into publications and communication plans and ensuring the plan is delivered. The role will develop and maintain expert knowledge of the TA, ensuring high quality scientific standards and compliance. The role will work closely with regional scientific communication teams and the medical scientific community.

Key Responsibilities  

As a Scientific writer team leader, you will be responsible for:

  • Leading a team of writers (expert and senior) to create content.

  • Providing coaching to the team to develop their expertise.

  • Managing relationships with stakeholders to ensure efficient delivery.

  • Ensuring new technology is used within the team.

  • Providing strategic input as a thought partner to assigned TA(s).

  • Developing and maintaining expert knowledge in assigned TA and key trends within the industry.

  • Providing input into publication plans, communicating plans, medical education material and other strategic outputs. Ensuring outputs are delivered to time.

  • Leading the development of tools, technology and processes to improve quality and productivity.

  • Supporting projects to ensure resources, quality, timely delivery, efficiency and standards are met across scientific documents and clinical/medical reports.

  • Ensuring high quality scientific standards are met across the scientific writing group.

  • Ensuring compliance standards, risk controls and regulations are followed.

  • Using advanced training tools and techniques to improve training.

  • Working closely with regional and area scientific communication teams to identify publication requirements and support delivery of assigned outputs.

  • Building and maintaining relationships with medical scientific community.

Educational Qualification        

Educational qualifications required for Scientific writer team leader are:

  • Advanced degree in life sciences

  • Pharmacy degree

  • Medical degree

  • 9+ years of content creation experience in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry or academia, including more than 6 years in a leadership role.

Skills Required

To be a Scientific writer team leader you will need:

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Knowledge of therapeutic areas and domains.

  • Knowledge of multiple therapeutic areas/domains within one GBU.

  • Scientific and medical communication/writing.

  • Publication planning and project management.

  • Knowledge of compliance and regulations.

  • Stakeholder management.

  • Excellent communication and people management skills.

  • Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

Salary Structure  

The salary for a Scientific writer team leader at Sanofi in Hyderabad can range from 13 Lakhs per annum to 32 Lakhs per annum depending on the experience.

Career Development

Join Sanofi and enter a new world of science. You will be able to grow and transform just like they do. You will be challenging conventions and breaking boundaries to develop smart solutions that will impact your communities. As a Scientific writer team leader, you will have access to global leadership training, mentoring opportunities across different therapeutic areas and will be involved in developing global publication and regulatory strategies. Whether you wish to progress into senior medical communications leadership roles, move into global medical affairs or develop your technical expertise, we offer constant learning opportunities, clear progression routes and will give you the freedom to make an impact on the global healthcare industry.

How to Apply 

  • Go to our jobs page and search for Scientific Writer, Team Leader at Sanofi.

  • Click on the role to see further details.

  • Fill in your details and upload your CV.

  • Submit your application.

Employment Type: Full Time
Industry: Healthcare
Role Category: Non Clinical Jobs
Application: External (Company Site)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Key Skills

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