Principal Medical Writer

**Business Introduction**
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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**Position Summary**
Are you passionate about creating impactful medical documents that contribute to advancing healthcare? As a Principal Medical Writer at GSK, you will play a key role in developing high-quality clinical and regulatory documents that support our mission to get ahead of disease together. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will ensure the delivery of accurate, clear, and impactful content that aligns with global regulatory standards. This role offers an exciting opportunity to grow your expertise, lead projects, and make a meaningful impact on patients’ lives.

**Responsibilities**
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

- Independently lead preparation of complex clinical and post-market safety documents, including but not limited to Development Safety Update Reports (DSURs), Periodic Safety Update Reports/Periodic Benefit-Risk Evaluation Reports (PSURs/PBRERs), Addendums to Clinical Overviews (ACOs), US Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Reports/Periodic Adverse Experience Reports (PADERs/PAERs), RMPs and responses to regulatory authority questions.

- Provide oversight to co-authors or team of writers as applicable and be accountable for the quality of their work/contributions.

- Lead cross-functional teams in document preparation including but not limited to development of content strategy, coordination of content contributions, organization of review schedules, and project timelines.

- Work in a matrix team to ensure delivery of high-quality, fit-for-purpose documents that reflect accurate interpretation of associated safety, clinical, and statistical data, and are in line with GSK standards and global, regional and/or local regulatory requirements.

- Understand the interdependencies of various contributing functions (e.g., safety, regulatory, clinical, epidemiology, statistics and programming).

- Anticipate and evaluate complex situations and problems, resolving them by leveraging scientific and operational knowledge in collaboration with stakeholders.

- Assess trends and patterns in text and statistical data and effectively organize content and messages in safety documents.

- Use approaches to expedite document preparation, including authoring and reviewing tools, as well as other automation/technology platforms.

- Serve as a mentor for less experienced writers.

- Develop and deliver training on medical writing topics.

- Lead initiatives to improve medical writing processes.

- Contribute to vendor oversight as needed.

**Basic Qualification**

- Minimum of 10 years of advanced safety writing experience in the pharmaceutical domain including summarization and interpretation of complex data and preparation of complex documents.

- In depth working knowledge of:

- Relevant regulatory guidance (e.g., ICH, GVP, FDA, EMA) pertaining to clinical trial conduct, pharmacovigilance, and document-specific requirements.
- Core cross-functional clinical research roles and procedures, and how they relate to document strategy and operational preparation.

- Experience in multiple therapeutic areas to have confidence to dive into these areas without lead time.

**Preferred Qualification**
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

- Advanced safety writing skills with expertise in most safety document types.

- Highly collaborative, capable of leading cross‐functional team members, negotiating solutions, and advising them on document structure and content as needed.

- Skilled in navigating multicultural settings, ensuring effective collaboration with diverse customers and clients, such as health authorities and patients, while adeptly collaborating with remote teams.

- Able to independently lead multiple projects simultaneously and deliver multiple high-quality documents on schedule.

- Advanced computer skills and general computer literacy.

- Excellent English language proficiency, both verbal and written

This role is based in Bangalore and offers a hybrid working model, combining remote work with on-site collaboration.

**Business Introduction**
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the e