Position Title: Medical Writing Word Processing Coordinator
Work Location: 100% Remote
Assignment Duration: 12 Months
Position Summary: The Medical Writing Word Processing Coordinator is responsible for formatting, proofing, and completion of Clinical Protocols, Clinical Study Reports, Investigator's Brochures, and other related clinical regulatory documents.
Background & Context:
- Provides document formatting support to Medical Writing, Clinical, and other functional areas, ensuring successful preparation of high-quality, submission-ready documents.
- Ensures completion of work to meet multiple client deadlines.
- Ensures styles and formatting are consistent with defined eSubmissions standards so that the documents created in MS Word correctly render to PDFs.
Key Responsibilities: - Processes, proofreads, verifies and manages various clinical regulatory documents, ensuring they are submission-ready for publishing with an appropriate level of accuracy and consistency.
- Communicates regularly with colleagues and management regarding timelines and conflict to timelines for word processing requests, eSubmissions issues, and document completion dates.
- Provides ongoing support for Medical Writing, Clinical, and other functional areas; acts as a liaison between eDocs support and Medical Writing as needed.
- Responsible for effective communication among team members.
- Ensures all electronic document deliverables are processed and completed in alignment with timelines.
- Accountable for meeting the main objectives of assigned word processing projects within established timelines and with an appropriate quality level.
- Ensures document styles and formatting are consistent with defined eSubmissions standards, so that documents created in MS Word are correctly rendered to PDFs.
- Confirms formats and styles are consistent with those in the clinical regulatory templates, when applicable.
- Accountable for providing services and results on time, accurately and consistent with expectations.
- Populates document properties and ensures correct naming conventions are used per the eSubmissions System file naming conventions.
- Accurately and timely maintains document tracking for all documents.
- Ensures literature citations are correct.
- Performs literature searches.
- Maintains knowledge of eSubmissions styles and formatting standards.
- Must continually train/be compliant with all current industry requirements as they relate to regulatory submissions, including electronic submission/approval standards.
- Participates in process improvement activities.
Qualification & Experience: - A minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience within medical writing in a global pharma, biotech, life science, federal agency organization delivering medicines/therapies to a broad market across various therapeutic areas.
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Word, Adobe Toolbox, DocX tools, and template layout design.
- Deep familiarity with style guide application, formatting per eCTD standards, and Word-to-PDF rendering.
- Must understand document styling, template integrity, and how to use tools like COSMOS and Smartsheet.
- Ability to self-assign tasks, manage deadlines, and adapt quickly to last-minute formatting requests.
- Experience in proofreading, applying brand styles, and ensuring consistency with submission formatting standards.
- Comfortable working across multiple time zones (PST, CST, EST) with primary alignment to CST hours.
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