Technical Writer to Devyser Diagnostics in Stockholm

Job description
Are you an experienced Technical Writer with a critical thinking mindset and an eye for details? Do you have experience from the Medtech or Pharmaceutical industry developing new and existing product documentation?  Do you see yourself in a coordinating role where you will contribute with your technical communication expertise to the fast growing market of clinical diagnostics? We are now on behalf of our client Devyser AB looking to recruit a Technical Writer to join their team in Hägersten, Stockholm!

Responsibilities
Devyser AB specializes in diagnostic kits for complex DNA testing within hereditary diseases, oncology and transplantation. The company is growing quickly and is now looking to employ an experienced Technical Writer to coordinate and take responsibility for the company’s technical documentation.

As a Technical Writer you will be working with end-user documentation for the company’s new product introductions and updates of existing technical documentation, including handbooks, instructions for use, safety data sheets and software guides. You will also manage the translation of the documentation as required, by liaising with translators/translation companies and by creating the final versions of the translated documents for review, approval, publication, and archive.

You will also improve and be responsible for technical documentation in the company´s content management system (CMS) and participate in the possible implementation of a new CMS by sharing knowledge of the documentation workflow with the implementation team.

In your role you will closely collaborate with IT, Project Leaders, Product Managers, Development, Marketing, Quality and Manufacturing.

Key responsibilities:
• Lead the development and implementation of Devyser´s style guide 
• Ensure consistent language, format, voice, style, and tone for all documentation 
• Provide editing, proofreading and design support to the development and marketing team members
• Collaborate with Product Management and participate in relevant Product Development meetings to gather technical information for the development and updating of new and existing documentation
• Convert complex technical information into clear, concise, and coherent end-user documentation whilst adhering to regulatory requirements
• Create new illustrations and/or update existing illustrations to compliment the technical information
• Schedule reasonable delivery timelines together with Product Development and Product Management
• Take care of the whole documentation process from first draft to final review and prepare the documentation for final approval. 
• Liaise with Marketing for the publication of the approved documentation on Devyser’s documentation portal
• Archive the original approved documentation after publishing
• Manage the translation of documentation as required by liaising with translators and translation companies.
• Create final versions of translated documentation in the translation tool for review and approval.
• Help improve and maintain the current CMS – Madcap.
• Participate in the possible implementation of a new CMS system by providing knowledge of the workflow, processing and handling of Devyser’s technical documentation.

Qualifications
• Academic degree preferably within Molecular biology, Medtech or related field
• Extensive experience in technical writing, preferably within Medtech or Diagnostics
• Experience of working with Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Experience of working with translation tools
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills
• Experience of Adobe Illustrator for updating and creating illustrations is meritorious
• Experience of desktop publishing tools is meritorious
• Experience of working with systems like Paligo, MadCap and MadCap Lingo, Jira and Confluence is meritorious

Success Factors
To be successful in this role you need to have strong project management skills as you will manage the documentation for the full lifecycles of the different products. You need to be flexible and organized and have the ability to meet deadlines and plan your work thereafter. You are structured and thorough with a critical mindset and a natural attention for detail. We also see that you are communicative with strong interpersonal skills as you will be collaborating with many different functions on a regular basis. 

Application
In this recruitment process, Devyser AB is collaborating with Randstad Life Sciences. For further information regarding the position, please contact recruitment consultant Heidi Pettersson, heidi.pettersson@randstad.se.

Because of GDPR we are not allowed to handle applications by e-mail and applications sent through e-mail can therefore not be processed. 

The last application date is 2020-12-15.

About the company
We are specialists when it comes to diagnostic kits for complex DNA testing within hereditary diseases, oncology and transplantation. Our products are used to guide targeted cancer therapies, to enable rapid prenatal diagnostics, as well as in post transplant follow-up. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Devyser was founded in 2004 by three pioneers who envisioned rapid, noninvasive diagnostics based on multiplexed PCR and QF-PCR technology. This has since been applied to the front-end of sequencing workflows in order to streamline protocols.