About Xelay Acumen

Xelay Acumen, Inc. is a boutique strategy and management consulting firm serving primarily biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and healthcare provider clients. Our consulting engagements focus exclusively on high value-add for our clients' most critically important issues and challenges.

Role

We are seeking an experienced full-time Medical Writer/Medical Communications Specialist. This is a position for industry-experienced professionals who have at least 1 or more years of medical writing experience, preferably within the biotech or pharmaceutical industry. This role is a hands-on content development position.

Responsibilities
• Working within the position specification, particularly with respect to time allocation
• Developing content for a variety of clinically-oriented products (slide kits, manuscripts, posters for pharmaceutical clients)
• Ensuring writing is of high scientific and literary standards and meets objectives
• Undertaking research in the therapeutic area to allow effective writing
• Incorporate editorial comments and solve queries to present a 'finished' final document
• Ensuring understanding and implementation of all company procedures and quality standards
• Engaging Key Opinion Leaders and clinical trial investigators who partner with the client to author publications
• Work includes:
o Medical Education materials (Advisory Boards, Speaker Programs, Slide Decks, etc.)
o Abstracts and articles
o Manuscripts
o Multimedia projects
o Posters
o Speaker training materials
o Slide kits /Slide presentations
o Work for advisory board meetings (creating meeting agendas and slide presentations, speaker training program content, comprehensive post-meeting reports, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Knowledge of science or an aptitude for understanding it, including the ability to learn new therapeutic areas quickly

• Ability to write (medical writers must be able to write clearly at a level appropriate to the audience and the project)

• Deadline-oriented

• Attention to detail

• Accuracy, logical organization

• Clear thinking and writing

Requirements:

• RN, MS, RPh, PhD, MD, PharmD degree

• 1+ years of medical communications writing experience

• In office

• Strong ability in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Experience with graphics software (ie, Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop) preferable, but not a requirement

Interested parties should apply via https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XelayAcumenJobs 

(All materials are required to be in English)