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Senior Value Communications Writer

Location: US

Company: Cytel Software Corporation

Senior Value Communications Writer (a Senior Research Consultant within Cytel) is a lead content writing and client-facing role where you can apply your scientific, strategic, and writing expertise to develop deliverables across therapeutic areas to demonstrate the value of treatments to change the lives of patients. Cytel offers a unique opportunity for leadership, growth, and career advancement as part of a fast and growing organization at the forefront of innovating and communicating advancements in market access and health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). As a senior value communications writer, you’ll also have the opportunity to work closely with a global, high performing collaborative team, with leaders who are invested in your career development.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Developing content, including global value dossiers (GVDs), AMCP dossiers, value stories/value propositions, objection handlers, and health technology assessment (HTA) submissions
• Writing manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals and developing content for presentation at key industry conferences
• Providing strategic leadership on projects, including complex multi-disciplinary HEOR/HTA/market access projects to deliver them within client objectives and timelines
• Reviewing work of self and junior writers on project teams (including editing and formatting) to ensure delivery of high-quality work that aligns with the client’s needs
• Acting as the project manager on assigned projects, maintaining timelines and budget, communicating with the client, and ensuring client satisfaction, strategic vision, and on-time, on budget execution of high-quality deliverables
• Providing leadership/management for projects you are assigned, including multi-disciplinary projects involving other teams such as evidence curation or health economics
• Acting as the primary point of client contact for assigned projects and being responsible for delivering projects within scope and budget
• Managing time and workload to meet internal and external deadlines
• Developing basic visuals and graphics using Excel or PowerPoint
• Mentoring junior value communication writers on project teams
• Helping to develop competitive, custom proposals in response to RFPs as needed

Education, Professional Skills & Experience

• Advanced degree in life sciences, health economics, or a clinical discipline is preferred, eg, PhD, PharmD, MPH, MS, or commensurate experience in medical writing/scientific communications.
• 3+ years in medical writing, with a focus in HEOR, market access, or HTA-related deliverables
• Previous work in an agency or consultancy
• Strong understanding of market access and evidence generation strategy
• Extensive experience developing value dossiers (GVDs, AMCP), value propositions, and/or HTA submissions; experience with Ad boards, message testing, payer interviews, gap analyses a plus
• Keen ability to communicate complex clinical, humanistic, and economic information to erse audiences, with a focus on payers
• Excellent writing and editing skills, including grammar, clarity, organization, mechanics
• Project leadership, including client communication and project management (eg, timelines, scope management, and budget management)
• In-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and drug development and reimbursement process
• Familiarity with health economics and comparative effectiveness, clinical trials, and basic biomedical statistics
• Strategic literature research skills and evidence synthesis (ie, able to efficiently identify key references and perform targeted literature reviews; our team does not conduct SLRs)
• Mastery of the Microsoft Suite, especially Word and PowerPoint; able to create visually appealing slide decks and work within Word templates usings styles with ease
• Experience with referencing software (EndNote strongly preferred)

Personal Skills & Competencies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with internal collaborative teams and clients
• Agility to be a team player, but also able to work independently, with minimal input from manager, as needed
• Outstanding attention to detail with focus on both accuracy and quality
• Excellent time management and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while also handling shifting priorities
• Penchant for problem solving; highly strategic, able to help clients with solutions and planning
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Familiarity with cloud-based file management (eg, sharepoint)
• Proactive and conscientious in terms of communication and project management
• Enthusiastic about tackling new challenges

Cytel Inc. is an Equal Employment / Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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