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The Opportunity:

The Global Digital Hub is a business line within the Roche Services & Solutions Center, aiming to enhance digital capabilities globally. It supports central initiatives through Social Media Management, Brand Support, Digital Publishing Services, Marketing Automation, Content Creation, and Creative Design. The Medical Writing team within the Global Digital Hub focuses on generating commercial content for various digital formats. Their work is crucial in supporting Roche's global and local business communication strategies.

As a Medical Writer, you will contribute to the growing medical writing team within the Roche Services & Solutions Center. You will develop medical writing and digital content solutions across various therapeutic areas and play an integral role in business development and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

Create and edit medical content for various digital channels and platforms, including patient information, educational materials for healthcare professionals (slides, posters, speaker briefs, and presentations for conferences), newsletters, medical reports, study summaries, and materials for public relations.

May research, write, and edit pre-clinical and/or clinical reports, summarizing data from studies.

Assist in the development of formats and guidelines for clinical documentation, prepare scientific manuscripts, abstracts, and posters.

Manage multiple concurrent projects across therapeutic areas, ensuring timely delivery.

Ensure content complies with regulatory guidelines and Roche best practices.

Monitor and manage workload, anticipate capacity issues, and provide solutions.

Ensure projects meet deadlines and maintain scientific accuracy.

Prepare content for LMR approval in VVPM, including referencing.

Collaborate with the Creative Artworker to develop content, contributing creative ideas and suggestions.

Liaise professionally with internal teams, clients, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders to obtain comprehensive briefs and responses.

Understand customer business needs to create relevant content.

Engage resources, using both formal and informal networks to achieve goals and work closely with Business Partners.

Suggest improvements to service and responsiveness to business partners.

Who You Are:

We are looking for dynamic individuals who are highly involved and passionate about medical writing and willing to learn more about building up content strategies. As a Medical Writer you are a person who upholds the highest standards of scientific accuracy, quality and compliance.
 

Bachelor’s degree or higher in medical sciences, pharmacy, microbiology or biochemistry or a related field.

2-4 years of experience in a similar role.

Native-level proficiency in written and spoken English; additional languages are an advantage.

Excellent attention to detail, consistency, clarity, and scientific rigor.

Customer-service mentality and can-do attitude.

Proficiency with standard IT applications, preferably including the Google suite.

Accountable, focused, and precise attitude.

Continuous improvement and growth mindset.

Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and prioritize tasks.

Strong stakeholder management and customer-centric skills.

Effective time management and communication skills, both written and verbal.

Passionate about learning new technologies.

Strong interpersonal skills to work as part of a team and engage with leaders.

Relocation benefits are available for this job posting

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in San Jose provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the Americas region. Today Roche employs altogether around 800 employees in Costa Rica.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.