Senior Medical Editor
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
As a Senior Medical Editor at ICON, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, clarity, and quality of scientific documents and publications related to clinical trials.
What You Will Do:
This position is responsible for overall quality control (QC) review and submission-ready publishing of nonclinical documents. The Senior Nonclinical Editor will copyedit/proofread, format, and perform internal consistency review of document content in accordance with company SOPs and processes to ensure documents meet required standards. This role will support all documents written by authors from Drug Metabolism and Biopharmaceutics (DMB), Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Toxicology (Tox), and Translational Sciences. This position may also assist in clinical document QC and publishing tasks when appropriate to meet submission timelines. The Senior Nonclinical Editor performs the activities with minimal oversight needed.
Key responsibilities include:
- Perform internal document QC review of nonclinical documents (eg, DMB, CMC, TOX, TRS, PRECLIN) to ensure compliance with the Style Guide, template formatting, and submission ready standards.
- Copyedit/proofread for grammar, style, and formatting according to AMA and Incyte style guides.
- Ensure internal consistency and confirm that data are reported correctly, statements accurately reflect a common message and text to tables, figures, and appendices are accurate and consistently presented.
- Check the reference list in documents, including verifying citation information via PubMed, ordering copies of references, and adding to the electronic document management system (EDMS), and ensuring each reference is cross-referenced in the document.
- Proofread documents against the standard templates to ensure compliance with required sections and text.
- Perform publishing of PDF documents to Incyte submission-ready standards. May involve multiple document compilation of PDF files to include appendices.
- Assist Medical Writing Operations staff with clinical document QC and publishing, as appropriate.
- Participate in process improvement initiatives and support Medical Writing staff with other tasks, as appropriate.
- May interact cross-functionally to support clinical and nonclinical processes and template updates.
Your Profile:
Required qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Basic Science, Business, or other analytical field with 4 years related experience in the pharmaceutical industry OR 8+ years of experience in a discipline directly related to document production (eg, medical writing, QC, editing, publishing).
- Strong working knowledge of the editorial and publishing activities within Clinical Development.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, including the ability to format tables, insert cross-references, apply styles, and use templates. Experience with PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Adobe.
- Strong working knowledge of Adobe PDF bookmarking and internal/external hyperlinking to meet submission-ready standards.
- Experience in the use of an EDMS (eg, Veeva Vault or SharePoint).
- Ability to effectively communicate with vendors and manage outsourced editorial work.
- Keen attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple activities, prioritize effectively, and work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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