Editor

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

**Path/Level**:
B4

**Organization Background**

Scientific data and information are core assets of Lilly. Providing balanced, objective, and accurate information to regulators, the scientific community, health care professionals (HCPs), payers, and patients in a consistent and timely fashion across the entire drug development lifecycle is fundamental to Lilly.

As HCPs are deluged with data and are making choices in an increasingly complex and stressed health system, Lilly Medical Affairs (MA) can provide clear, credible answers that will set Lilly apart from its competitors. MA mission is to make Lilly the preferred pharmaceutical partner in the healthcare community globally by leveraging its medical expertise to drive patient-centric answers and solutions. MA brings deep medical expertise to HCPs and payers and focuses on answering HCP questions with customized clinical and real-world evidence that can make the difference on if and how they use Lilly products. Additionally, MA brings clinical insights from customers back to Lilly to inform new product development and lifecycle planning. MA also supports patients with educational tools to help them manage their illness and with assistance to access our medicines for those facing tough financial situations.

**Position Description**

The purpose of the Copyeditor’s role in Medical Affair Quality is to review and copyedit U.S. medical (non-promotional) and promotional materials across different therapeutic areas and brands to ensure they adhere to Customer Information Quality (CIQ) and/or Medical Content Approval (MCA) requirements and corresponding process requirements.

The Copyeditor will leverage different content, project, and quality management tools to increase speed and efficiency in the review and approval of promotional and medical (non-promotional) materials.

Primary Responsibilities:
This job description intends to provide a general overview of the job requirements at the time it was prepared. The job requirements of any position may change over time and may include additional responsibilities not specifically described in the job description. Consult with your supervisor regarding your actual job responsibilities and any related duties that may be required for the position.

**-**Copyedit of promotional and medical (non-promotional) materials**:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Marketing, Medical teams, etc. during the review, approval, and management of content, including attending review meetings as and when required
- Validate content is aligned to CIQ and MCA requirements, ensuring consistency across related materials
- Review materials following provided style guides, templates, and against a checklist
- General knowledge of scientific literature search and retrieval
- Proofread or copyedit assigned deliverables to meet quality standards, independently
- Review/proofread the usage of language, grammar, style, spelling, grammar, and consistency to ensure readability of the document
- Identify and fix flaws in logic and flow
- Review the reference list for compliance to AMA Manual of Style/brand style
- Expertise in tools and platforms such as Veeva Vault, project planning software (e.g., Wrike, MS Project), etc.

**-**Ensure** **quality, speed, value, and compliance throughout the review process**:

- Support and adhere to organizational project management best practices
- Responsible and accountable for completing the assigned tasks by:

- Uphold Lilly procedures and processes
- Review and approve materials in a timely manner
- Determine corrective actions to eliminate recurring issues
- Liaising with CIQ/MCA Lead and Operations teams in tracking and managing deviations
- Partner effectively with cross-functional colleagues and facilitate shared-learning forums to establish best practices and identify challenges across teams
- Adhere to best practices based on Lilly internal standards
- Identify ways to continuously improve processes

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

- 2-4 years of experience as an editor, copyeditor, or proofreader of promotional and medical (non-promotional) content for publishing, marketing, communications, or advertising agencies, or pharmaceutical industry.
- Familiarity with various style guides including AMA Manual of Style/Chicago Manual of Style
- Must have good understanding of scientific/medical terminologies
- Demonstrated initiative and abilit