Senior Director of Medical Writing - REVOLUTION Medicines

Revolution Medicines is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on developing novel targeted therapies to inhibit frontier targets in RAS-addicted cancers.  The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) Inhibitors designed to suppress diverse oncogenic variants of RAS proteins, and RAS Companion Inhibitors for use in combination treatment strategies. As a new member of the Revolution Medicines team, you will join other outstanding professionals in a tireless commitment to patients with cancers harboring mutations in the RAS signaling pathway.

The Opportunity:

The Senior Director of Medical Writing will be responsible for strategic leadership and management of the medical writing function and involves both a people and project-orientated focus.  This position reports to the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Development. 

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

• Success in terms of people, projects, and productivity of medical writing, including all deliverables in alignment with corporate goals.

• Identify and manage priorities; assure the successful completion of high quality, timely and compliant document deliverables. Develop and implement remediation plans/actions as needed.

• Provide scientific and medical writing leadership and guidance to full time and contract medical writers across multiple programs.

• Demonstrate current and applied knowledge and understanding of regulatory requirements and standards to ensure consistent application, adherence, and timely achievement of compliant deliverables.

• Attract, hire, and retain qualified medical writing professionals; provide an atmosphere of training, mentorship, and coaching to align with a strategic view of the role of medical writing in clinical development.

• Structure resourcing to ensure an effective and cost-efficient approach to covering portfolio workload and goals while ensuring sustainability.

• Serve as a primary subject matter expert for the planning, design, and preparation of clinical and regulatory documents. Apply a strategic view of documents; work with colleagues to develop and execute strategies (3 to 5-year timeframe) to drive document efficiency, quality, and speed.

• Provide leadership across the medical writing department through strategic input, continual process improvement, and innovation in the development and implementation of a strategic view of regulatory documents.

• Collaborate and partner with cross functional leaders and other staff across project management, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, clinical development, biostatistics, and other functions.

• Represent the medical writing department externally with academic institutions, industry groups/peers, vendors and other entities to develop expertise and drive industry standards and best practice.

• Drive budgeting, administration, and business objectives for their group.

Required Experience, Skills, and Education:

• Doctoral degree and 8 years of regulatory medical writing experience

• Master’s degree and 10 years of regulatory medical writing experience

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of regulatory medical writing experience

• 5 years of experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources.

Preferred experience and transferable skills:

• Academic preparation in life sciences or pharmacy with at least 8 years of related experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry.

• Experience in oncology.

• Strong understanding of drug development process.

Revolution Medicines currently requires that all personnel and visitors to its offices be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This role will require that the employee meet with company employees and work from the company’s offices. Given that these essential functions of the role must be performed on-site, this position requires full COVID-19 vaccination, subject to applicable law.

The expected salary range for this role is $235,000 to $281,000. An individual’s position within the range may be influenced by multiple factors, including skills and experience in role, overall performance, individual impact and contributions, tenure, and market dynamics. Base salary is one part of the overall total rewards program at RevMed, which includes competitive cash compensation, robust equity awards, strong benefits, and significant learning and development opportunities.

Revolution Medicines is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital status, medical condition and veteran status.

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