Senior Medical Writer
Location | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of |
Date Posted | April 8, 2025 |
Category | Health Care / Medical |
Job Type | Full-time |
Currency | TZS |
Description

About the job
As a Senior Medical Writer you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.
As a Senior Medical Writer you will be supporting a Top-5 pharma company. You have the chance to help our customer to deliver best-in-class regulatory and submission documents. While being stably employed with ICON, you will be fully embedded with our client.
- Independently produces clinical and regulatory documents in collaboration with Principal Medical Writers . These documents may include clinical study level documents such as clinical summary documents, protocols, CSRs, IBs, briefing books and response documents, PIPs .This includes Phase 1 in patients to Phase 3 across multiple therapeutic areas.
- Thoroughly analyze and critically interpret data to determine the best approach to composing each document, applying lean writing strategies.
- Acts as the primary contact for the study team in relation to the preparation and timelines (incl. planning) of assigned documents.
- Facilitates the review of the documents and ensures that documents are submission-ready and finally approved. When preparing documents you will be directly in contact with QC personnel and publishing specialists who support you in document preparation.
- Minimum requirement of a bachelor’s degree; Master's degree preferred
- 3-5 years Medical Writing experience & other relevant pharmaceutical experience combined with scientific and regulatory knowledge
- Strong writing skills and the ability to convert scientific data into a clear, scientifically sound, well-structured messages.
- Proficient in independently writing several types of clinical/regulatory documents (protocols, CSRs, etc.) including leading creation, coordination of the authoring functions, facilitation of the review of the documents and ensuring that documents are submission-ready and finally approved.