About This Role
This key position within Medical Affairs involves drafting, editing, and submitting high-quality, medically accurate documents such as manuscripts, conference abstracts, posters, and slide decks. The role offers ample opportunity to make a real impact and reports to the Director, Scientific Publications.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with key stakeholders (e.g., Publications, Medical Affairs, HEOR, Field Medical) to interpret complex data to develop high-quality strategic scientific documents including congress abstracts, posters, oral presentations, slide decks, and manuscripts that align with the Medical Affairs strategy
- Follow process to coordinate the review, approval, submission, and production of publications, including encore presentations
- Champion development and updating of assigned Field materials including disease state and product specific slide decks and FAQs
- Closely collaborate with and apply strategic direction from project and publication leads, and biostatisticians in order to manage and prioritize assignments to ensure deliverables are completed per time and quality goals
- Provide recommendations to optimize Publication and Medical Writing company standard operating procedures (SOPs), overall processes, and digital tools
- Work with cross-functional internal teams to ensure wide acceptability of documents and consensus of content
- Critically analyze, synthesize, and present complex information
- Understand processes, industry best practices, and compliance requirements for publications and scientific communications
- May periodically provide technical writing support to other functions outside of Medical Affairs based on business need and as decided by manager and MA leadership
Requirements
- Advanced scientific or clinical degree (MD, PhD, or PharmD) required
- At least 1-3 years of medical writing experience for Medical Writer level
- At least 5-8 years of medical writing experience for Senior Medical Writer level
- Track record of developing high-quality scientific documents from inception to publication
- Ability to interpret, evaluate, and communicate (in a variety of formats and styles) complex scientific and clinical data
- Expertise in use of online and other data sources for literature searches and information, Microsoft Office Suite
- Experience in publication management software
- General knowledge of drug development and approval processes
- Ability to work collaboratively and coordinate the efforts of team members to resolve comments and complete deliverables
- Ability to manage/prioritize multiple projects under general supervision, working in a fast-paced environment
- Flexible and able to adapt to changing deadlines and priorities
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Highly attentive to detail
- Self-motivated and able to self-manage effort to maintain alignment with strategy and corporate goals
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Significant equity
- Generous benefits package
Important Details
- Work format: on-site at least three days per week
About the Company
Axsome Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company leading a new era in the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) conditions. They deliver scientific breakthroughs by identifying critical gaps in care and develop differentiated products with a focus on novel mechanisms of action that enable meaningful advancements in patient outcomes. Their industry-leading neuroscience portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for major depressive disorder, agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, and migraine, as well as multiple novel product candidates addressing a broad range of serious neurological and psychiatric conditions that impact over 150 million people in the United States. They are on a mission to solve some of the brain’s biggest problems so patients and their loved ones can flourish.
