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Eli Lilly seeks a Scientific Writer or Senior Scientific Writer to support the Global Scientific Communications team in producing high-quality regulatory and medical documents. This role focuses on quality review and document finalization, ensuring all outputs meet international standards and regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce error-free, high-quality scientific documents that meet international written English standards
- Correct grammar, style, formatting, syntax, and logical flow issues
- Verify data accuracy against source files and ensure consistency across related documents
- Follow Lilly style guides, templates, and internal best-practice standards
- Generate final eCTD-compliant PDFs of medical regulatory documents using publishing software
- Review and format Word files to maximize compliance requirements in source documents
- Render Word files into PDFs and edit as needed to ensure all regulatory requirements are met
- Maintain strong customer focus and accountability for timeline delivery
- Coach and develop new staff or colleagues requiring support in core competencies
- Coordinate with external vendors on document-related activities as needed
- Identify and implement process improvements, new tools, and workflows to enhance team efficiency
- Develop and maintain working knowledge of therapeutic areas, product information, disease states, trial design, and clinical data
- Apply therapeutic and scientific knowledge to all document-related activities
The role requires balancing independent work with cross-functional collaboration across culturally and geographically diverse teams. Limited travel (approximately 10%) may be required.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and negotiate solutions to complex technical challenges with cross-functional colleagues, external vendors, and customers
- Proven project management and time management skills
- Cognitive abilities including verbal reasoning, attention to detail, critical thinking, and analytical ability
- Strong interpersonal skills and flexibility in varying environments
- High-level end-user computer skills (word processing, tables and graphics, spreadsheets, presentations, templates)
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team within culturally and geographically diverse environments
- Proven ability to assemble, share, and apply key learnings across multiple projects
- Knowledge of medical and statistical terminology with willingness to develop scientific knowledge
- General knowledge of scientific literature search and retrieval
