Principal Medical Communications Science

Do you have expertise in, and passion for Medical Communication? Would you like to apply your expertise in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We do this with integrity, even in the most difficult situations, because we are committed to doing the right thing!

Development Operations is here to deliver science through a wide range of specialist expertise, operational excellence and data driven innovation. These enable us to drive extensive clinical trial programmes from design to regulatory submission and approval. Providing the key connection between science and commercialisation, we deliver trials to the highest standards of quality, efficiency and ethics to thousands of patients globally.

This is a truly exciting period for us at AstraZeneca. We have a pipeline that presents outstanding opportunities to push the boundaries of science to deliver medicines to patients which will positively impact their lives. We are therefore recruiting a Principle Medical Communication Scientist.

The Medical Communications Science (MCS) group delivers communication excellence to achieve successful submissions and approvals through the conversion of clinical data into knowledge for the benefit of patients. This is achieved through:

* Driving an aligned communication strategy from Study Design Concept to submissions and approvals.
* Critical thinking to improve the robustness of design and interpretation.
* Authoring high-quality documents to facilitate rapid approvals of the best possible label.

As a team, we author clinical-regulatory documents that align with project strategies, regulatory requirements, and communications best-practices. We support the Company's core therapeutic areas in all phases of clinical development, playing a key part in delivering medicines to patients most in need as swiftly as we can. Our vision is to be an industry leading organization.



What you'll do

As a Principle Medical Communication Scientist, you will provide communications leadership to early/late stage drug projects and drive strategic medical writing, advocating communications excellence in your team.

Essential for the role

We expect you to have a degree in Life Sciences and preferably an MSc or PhD (or equivalent). You'll of course have proven regulatory writing experience from within the pharmaceutical industry and a real passion for helping us to achieve our goal of changing lives.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we're opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what's next!

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you.

We look forward to reviewing your application.



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