Medical Writer

Job Title:                Medical Writer, inScience Communications, Springer Healthcare

Location:               Tokyo, Japan

About Springer Healthcare

Springer Healthcare is a leading global medical communications and education provider. Working in partnership with pharmaceutical companies and key opinion leaders, Springer Healthcare develop bespoke content delivered via multichannel solutions, providing the essential tools to support healthcare professionals in achieving the best possible outcomes for patients.

Purpose of the Role:

To produce high quality scientific content of medical communications that satisfy client needs in terms of quality, commercial focus, timing and cost.

Supervisory Relationships:

Team Leader, inScience Communications, Japan.

Responsibilities:

• Project delivery: To write and edit manuscripts, congress posters and slides either in English or Japanese, according to international guidelines, as well as client needs, deadline, budget and internal quality standards, as directed by the team leader.
• Business Planning/commercial: To contribute to strategic publication plans and communications programs, where appropriate or when requested from clients.
• Financial: To monitor own adherence to budget and utilization rate; To record and monitor actual time spent on a project against budgeted time, and complete timesheets in an accurate and timely manner.
• Organisational and team work: To support team working principles and collaboration within the project management team in inScience Communications, sales/Operations/Editorial team in Springer Healthcare and wider inScience Communications Group.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience: Proven medical writing experience (>1 year) in a medical communications agency or the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry OR 3 years as a researcher (e.g. Post doc), writing experiences of own manuscripts
• Skills: [Essential] Proven medical writing skills and able to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail; Excellent verbal and written communication skills [Japanese (Native) & English (Business) or English (Native) & Japanese (Business)]; Proven experience and confident in interacting with clients and medical experts; A proactive and flexible team player with a collaborative approach; Proven organisation/time management skills with the ability to be proactive and use your initiative to get results; Highly computer literate with good working knowledge of common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly

Qualifications:

[Essential] Life science degree, [Desirable] Higher degree (MSc or PhD)

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent. Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work here https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/taking-responsibility/diversi….

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