Brief Description
- Client and Team Interactions:
- Serve as a scientific expert to clients
- Provide scientific expertise during pitches, meetings, and discussions with client and team
- Oversee Projects: In collaboration with Client Services, monitor efficiency of projects and process
- Create high quality content and execute exceptional research to support internal and external projects
- Serve as Medical and Scientific Services lead for designated projects: create content and manage assigned tasks
- Build relationship with clients through regular and consistent engagement on calls or in meetings
- Be proactive and solutions-oriented
- Reviews timeline for agreement
- Ensure capacity is met as directed by manager and proactively reaches out to manager or team members to support when under capacity
- Reason and Problem solve from multiple perspectives and help resolution of situations that arise between team members/cross account team
Requirements
- Advanced terminal degree in biomedical sciences, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, or equivalent experience. A minimum of 1-2 years of work experience in an agency, the pharmaceutical industry, or a related scientific or medical writing position in oncology, hematology, or rare diseases. Proven ability to work independently. Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). Proficiency with Veeva preferred.
Summary
- A Senior Medical Writer (SMW) is responsible for content development, proactively communicating with clients, and driving the strategic direction of the product. S/he will have detailed knowledge of product, competitive landscape, key literature, and evolving science in the field specific to that product and will stay abreast on current literature, and the competitive landscape. The SMW will collaborate closely as a strategic partner with Project Management and Client Services to establish project plans, identify, and anticipate issues that could come up that may affect timelines while meeting agency standards. The SMW will be responsible for research and content support of business development goals and is expected to support the organic growth of the account(s) they are assigned. All MSS roles directly support clients through content generation and strategy.
About Petauri
Certified as a 2026 Great Place to Work®, Petauri takes pride in having a culture rooted in trust, collaboration, and a strong sense of community. We seek to attract individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to join us in our mission of improving patient outcomes by accelerating access to life changing healthcare innovations. A global healthcare consulting and solutions organization, Petauri brings together decades of experience across market access, evidence generation, medical communications, commercialization strategy, and policy to help life sciences organizations navigate complex healthcare challenges with clarity, integrity, and impact.
About Petauri Advance
Petauri Advance is the organization’s collective of medical and scientific communication platforms (Bluprint Oncology, Verascity, Cogency, Drive, Propel, and Momentum—All Powered by Petauri). Grounded in scientific expertise, the teams deliver innovative medical communication strategies that transform evidence into understanding, which in turn empowers informed decisions and advances patient care.