FSP Functional Lead for Medical Writing

Job Title: FSP Functional Lead for Medical Writing

Job Location: Remote, Maryland, USA

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level:

Work Schedule
First Shift (Days)
Environmental Conditions
Office Job Description

Join Us as the FSP Functional Lead for Medical Writing!

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

The FSP Functional Lead for Medical Writing is responsible for the Medical Writing FSP portfolio, providing global strategic direction, creative solutions, medical writing expertise and oversight to internal and external clients.

This role involves developing the departmental organizational structure, as well as recruiting, training, and motivating staff to ensure performance excellence.
The FSP Functional Lead for Medical Writing also leads the implementation of changes in departmental remit, processes, and operations to align Medical Writing regionally with the strategic direction and goals of the organization.

What You'll Do:

- Provides program-level and strategic oversight to one or more Medical Writing groups, developing and communicating the strategic direction for the groups.

- Recruits, engages, manages, and motivates staff to ensure excellence in performance.

- Develops an organizational structure and communicates departmental goals and priorities.

- Leads the implementation of changes in departmental remit, processes, and operations to developthe group in line with the strategic direction and goals of the organization.

- Develops and leads development and management of the departmental budget.

- Promotes and advocates for the business needs of the Medical Writing group.

- Builds relationships with other PPD departments and seeks opportunities to collaborate with other functions for mutual benefit (e.g., Phase I medical writing, Pharmacokinetic, biostatistics, pharmacovigilance, regulatory).

- Anticipates the need for change and actively supports a changing environment.

- Provides creative, novel and strategically aligned global ideas for taking the organization forward.

- Identifies and develops business opportunities involving new Medical Writing projects andopportunities for the company.

- Leads collaborative working relationships with business development and senior management insecuring new business by making presentations to clients, conducting contract negotiations,developing, and reviewing proposal texts and budgets, in collaboration with Proposal & ContractsDevelopment.

- Resolves or escalates serious project issues and risks to senior management. Prepares reportsregarding significant project issues to senior management as needed.

- Provides accountability and leadership in handling complex client management issues.

- Assumes primary responsibility for the visibility and reputation of the Medical Writing group withinPPD.

Education & Experience Requirements:

- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 15+ years) or equivalent and relevant combination of education, training, & experience.

- 7+ years of management responsibility

- Advanced leadership skills

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

- Strong leadership skills with