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August 15, 2008
Consultant Writer
Background to the company and our offerings
This company has been established for over 10 years and provides management consultancy services to the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. It specialises in research among healthcare payers to assist refinement of pricing, reimbursement and market access strategies.
They have specialist writing affiliate and have an experienced team of medical writers.
Value dossiers are the companies core product offering and have developed dossiers for more than 50 major products. Although these are specialist deliverables, much of the content is transferable from more traditional medical communications e.g. disease background and clinical data. Training can be provided on those areas that are less familiar.
They also produce market access newsletters, formulary materials, publications, disease area reviews and commercial assessments. Therapy area experience covers all major areas.
This position reports to the Associate Director.
Duties and responsibilities
- You will work as part of a team of writers on the development of Value Dossiers for global pharmaceutical company clients. We work for most of the top 10 companies.
- The work is varied and involves multiple projects covering a range of therapy areas.
- Each dossier aims to communicate the clinical, economic and wider benefits of treatment with a specific product to an internal audience.
- Dossiers are a blend of commercial and scientific content but usually include the following areas:
- Disease background
- Definitions, classification, epidemiology, current treatments, guidelines, competitive environment, unmet need
- Clinical evidence
- Summary of efficacy and safety data from the clinical trials
- Quality of life
- Summary of quality of life data (if available)
- Health economics
- Description of health economic modelling work and budget impact
- Disease background
- Completed documents are intended to help company personnel in pricing and reimbursement negotiations with local authorities.
- Other duties may also include: attending and writing reports for advisory board meetings, background literature reviews, slide kits and short reports relating to consultancy activity.
- Typical tasks for a project include:
- Cataloging client-supplied source materials and management of references
- Undertaking literature reviews
- Planning document structures
- Writing fully referenced content
- Developing visuals and graphics (training can be provided)
- Editing and quality assurance
- Document formatting
- Development of summary slide kit
- Liaising with other members of the writing team and the Project Director
- Project management
- Client contact
Requirements
Personal characteristics
- Bright and enthusiastic
- Organised
- Proactive
- Able to work on own initiative and to prioritise work
- Good team player
- Able to work to deadlines
Skills/experience
- First-class writing and editing skills
- Creativity and intellectual capability to convey complex information
- Ability to apply commercial thinking to the interpretation of clinical and economic data
- An ability to manage projects independently
- Comfort in a client facing role
- Research and analysis skills
- Computer literate with good Word/PowerPoint/Excel capabilities (training can be provided)
- Knowledge of different therapy areas (and/or an ability to rapidly learn new areas)
If you are interested in this role please contact Jennifer Harris
jennifer@stelfoxuk.com
01273 727930
