Medical Affairs – Medical Writing Internship in Bangalore at Eli Lilly & Company

Lilly is hiring for the role of Medical Affairs – Medical Writing!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Collect and evaluate data, information, and input from multiple sources, functions, and regions to create a cohesive content strategy for writing projects.  
• Plan (including organizing/preparing outlines), write (including first-draft authoring), edit, review, coordinate, and complete the regulatory documents supporting clinical development/product registration.  
• Conduct effective document initiation meetings to ensure authoring team alignment and understanding.  
• Build a scientific-based rationale that supports the purpose of more complex and/or strategic documents. 
• Ensure data are presented in a clear, complete, accurate, and concise manner.  
• Ensure that key data, statements and conclusions are consistent across related documents, and that statements and conclusions are integrated, accurate, balanced and supported by appropriate data.
• Coordinate expert/scientific reviews, collate reviewer’s comments, adjust content of document as required based on internal/external input, and prepare final version.  
• Maintain and enhance scientific communications skills to align with the audience's needs and with the changes in technology and platforms.
• Ensure and coordinate quality checks for accuracy. Exhibit flexibility in moving across development and preparation of multiple document types. 
• Influence or negotiate change of timelines and content with other team members. 
• Work with internal and external experts to develop and prepare presentations. 
• build and manage relationships with vendors/alliance partners. 
• Lead the writing process and apply effective project management skills to ensure the timely completion of high-quality regulatory documents.  
• Build/communicate credible writing project timelines. 
• Anticipate and mitigate risks to delivery.
• Work with teams and stakeholders to ensure smooth and timely development of documents and escalate issues, as appropriate, to ensure document completion.   
• Communicate project status to stakeholders.
• Maintain and enhance therapeutic area knowledge including disease state and compound(s) for assigned project(s).  
• Exhibit flexibility in moving across document types, therapeutic areas, and compounds, depending on project assignment.  
• Maintain and enhance knowledge of regulatory guidelines and publication guidelines.  
• Possess an overarching view of the compound, therapeutic area, and external environment (including competitors) with the ability to participate effectively in clinical planning, submission strategy planning, customer regulatory responses, and/or current awareness literature updates and reviews. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, health, communications, technology health-related field. 
• Demonstrated experience in technical/regulatory scientific writing.