Associate Director, Clinical Regulatory Writing

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

We are now recruiting an Associate Director, Clinical Regulatory Writing (CReW). The Clinical Regulatory Writing team provides expert communications leadership to drug projects and authors strategically important clinical-regulatory documents that are label focused and align with project strategies, regulatory requirements, and communications best-practices. We support the Company’s core therapeutic areas in all phases of clinical development. Our vision is to be an industry leading organization driving strategic communication excellence to achieve successful submissions and approvals.

The Clinical Regulatory Writing Associate Director is expected to:

• Drive continuous improvement and operational excellence from a communications leadership perspective, including representing the skill on drug and non-drug projects, as required.
• Author the most sophisticated clinical-regulatory documents within a program by ensuring that relevant regulatory, technical and quality standards are achieved, and that relevant processes and standard methodology are applied.
• Proactively collaborative with other functions at the program level.
• Independently lead clinical regulatory writing activities across a complex portfolio of work.
• Lead internal/external authoring teams and provide positive relationships with vendor medical writers to ensure delivery to time and quality.
• As part of a clinical delivery or submission team, provide crucial communications leadership to projects, establish communication standards and best practice, and continuously advocate for quality and efficiency.
• Support the development of Clinical Regulatory Writing Managers.
• Drive the clinical interpretation of complex data and information and condense it into clear, concise and accurate messages that address customer information requirements.
• Be a strategic problem solver and demonstrate strategic review capabilities.
• When acting as a submission lead, drive the development of the clinical Submission Communication Strategy.

Minimum Qualifications:

• We require a minimum of 5 years’ experience
• Life Sciences degree in an appropriate subject area.
• Significant medical writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry or CRO.
• In depth knowledge of the technical and regulatory requirements related to the role.
• Understand drug development and communication process from development, launch through life cycle management.
• Ability to advise and lead communication projects.

Desired Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in a scientific field (Ph.D.)

If this sounds like the type of organization where you would like to grow your career and make a real difference to patients then we would like to hear from you; apply today!

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing [email protected].