Jobs at Merck Specialties Pvt Ltd (Now Hiring) — 2 open

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Expert/Senior Expert Scientific Writer:

The Global Scientific Communications Content Hub is a growing, high performing, collaborative team responsible for developing medical communications, medical education and medical information content in close collaboration with a range of teams across Healthcare. The team is based in Global Healthcare's multi-disciplinary R&D (Research & Development) Hub in Bengaluru and working together across our global medical units (Oncology, Rare Tumours, N&I, Fertility, CM&E and Global Health).

We are seeking experienced, passionate scientific writing professionals who would like to develop their career and contribute to the continued growth of our operations.

Your Role:

• Working both independently and alongside other team members to develop medical content for a range of project types, audiences and writing styles including, but not limited to, medical communication content (including publications and congress materials) and medical education content
• Actively contribute to improvement initiatives across the Global Scientific Communications Content Hub
• Lead development of medium to high complexity content (and review the same produced by others)
• Review (QA) the output of less senior writers (including scientific accuracy, tone and alignment with agreed strategic
  messaging)
• Lead concept and content development meetings with authors and other stakeholders.
• Lead representative/SMEs for the assets/functional areas they are assigned on; develop programs to increase the depth of understanding of more junior writers
• Maintain good relationship with stakeholders (e.g. within MUs)
• Ensures personal efficiency and productivity targets are met
• Manages and prioritizes workload to meet internal deadlines
• Ensures status reporting of projects is clear

You will have:

• 5+ years professional experience in medical communications/medical affairs/clinical research in an international Pharma/Biotech/agency setting.
• A proven track record of successful scientific writing and leading projects; are comfortable with developing a range of content types, sometimes concurrently, and able to prioritize tasks to meet timelines/deadlines
• An advanced university degree in science, medicine or another related subject
• Therapeutic expertise/experience in one or more of Organization's key therapy areas (Oncology, Rare Tumours, Neurology and Immunology, Fertility, Cardio-metabolic and Endocrinology)
• Demonstrable stakeholder management expertise
• Strong awareness of the pharmaceutical business and trends in the industry
• Experience in managing projects cross-functionally and in an international setting
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand complex processes, project management and project leadership skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English language)

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!