Scientific Writer jobs in North Carolina

We are seeking a Scientific Writer - Vaccines to join Q² Solutions, IQVIA’s laboratory business as a remote position.

We hire passionate innovators who drive healthcare forward through thoughtful and inclusive collaboration. If you want to discover a career with greater purpose, join us as we transform and accelerate research and development.

As a Scientific Writer – Vaccines, you will be acting as Lead Medical Writer and will be responsible for managing simple projects, creating documents according to the company’s SOPs and customer requirements within agreed timelines. You will be negotiating timelines, responding to customer comments with senior support, and staying updated on medical/technical writing and regulatory knowledge, including GCP and advances in drug development. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Taking a leading role in preparing assigned documents, including, but not limited to, confirming the scope of the task, confirming templates and specifications, negotiating, and adhering to timelines, organizing document reviews, communicating directly with the customer.
• Managing day-to-day workload: identifying project needs, tracking timelines and implementing customer requests, keeping manager/senior staff abreast of progress on tasks and any potential problems with project work.
• Attending project team meetings with or without other writers and participating/leading comments resolution or similar meetings with external customers.
• Giving simple presentation to an existing customer (e.g., on processes at a Kick-off meeting).
• Completing project finance activities, including monitoring, and forecasting budgeted hours.
• Having awareness of budgets and project finance principles, moving towards review, and understanding of budgets relating to assigned projects, including out of scope activities.

What We Are Looking For:

• Bachelor's Degree in life sciences related discipline or related field Required.
• Master's Degree or Ph.D. in life sciences related discipline or related field Preferred.
• 1-3 years of prior relevant experience and related competency levels Required.
• Or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

The Knowledge, Skills and Abilities needed for this role:

• Good understanding of common statistical methods used in clinical trials and/or interpretation of their results, and statistical principles and of medical terminology across a range of therapeutic areas.
• Ability to integrate, interpret, and summarize data from a variety of sources in a clear and concise manner.
• In depth knowledge of drug development, medical writing, and associated regulations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including grammatical/technical writing skills.

What We Offer You:

We put our employees at the center of everything we do and are committed to providing them, and their families, with benefits that meet their diverse and changing needs. We invest in integrated benefits programs and resources to take care of our employees’ physical, mental, and emotional, financial, and social well-being so they can thrive at home and at work, at any stage of their well-being journey.

To learn more about our benefits, visit https://jobs.iqvia.com/benefits.

If you’re looking to unleash your potential, join Q² Solutions, IQVIA’s laboratory business, to help make the extraordinary possible!

Q² Solutions, IQVIA’s laboratory business, creates connected intelligence by combining our expertise, technology and analytics - this fuels unparalleled research & development solutions. We uphold a deep commitment to patients, sites, customers, and each other. https://www.q2labsolutions.com/careers 

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all, including veterans and candidates with disabilities. https://jobs.iqvia.com/q2-solutions-eoe

Q² Solutions’ ability to operate and provide certain services to customers and partners necessitates Q² Solutions and its employees meet specific requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccination status. https://jobs.iqvia.com/q2-solutions-covid-19-vaccine-status