Medical Editor

Medical Editor

Medical Affairs is a key customer-facing function that supports the safe and effective use of healthcare products by providing timely, evidence-based, and non-promotional information to healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, and payers. This role ensures high-quality medical content development with a focus on scientific accuracy, editorial excellence, regulatory compliance, and data integrity.
Key responsibilities include developing and reviewing medical response documents, performing source-to-output verification, validating references, and ensuring consistency across deliverables. The role also supports MLR readiness through quality checks aligned with FDA guidance, AMA style, and ICMJE standards.
Strong experience in medical information and content development, along with excellent communication, proofreading, and cross-functional collaboration skills, is required.
The role is home office–based (full-time position), and eligible candidates must hold a valid work permit in the United States of America.
Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams. These results are achieved by:
Support Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) reviewers by ensuring MLR readiness through pre-submission quality and compliance checks, reducing rework cycles and review timelines.
Write and create medical and scientific content related to Medical Affairs, Medical Information, and Medical Communications, including, but not limited to, Scientific Response Documents (SRD), Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) documents, Slide Sets, Abstracts, Posters, Education and Training materials, and others for potential clients.
Conduct editorial, language, and scientific accuracy reviews of promotional and non-promotional materials.
Ensure alignment with FDA guidance, brand guidelines, and regulatory standards while maintaining scientific accuracy, clarity, consistency, and audience appropriateness across formats.
Demonstrate strong familiarity with Veeva Vault for content review and workflow management.
Partner with writers, MLR coordinators, and MLR reviewers to deliver high-quality outputs in deadline-driven environments.
Manage multiple concurrent projects effectively while maintaining high editorial and scientific standards.
Proofread and perform final quality checks before submission.
Perform comprehensive editorial reviews aligned with AMA style, ICMJE guidelines, and internal editorial standards.
Identify and flag data mismatches, transcription errors, citation inconsistencies, and cross-document discrepancies before submission.
Serve as the final quality control checkpoint, ensuring alignment across text, tables, figures, and references.
Execute rigorous source-to-output verification of numerical data, statistical values, tables, figures, and citations.
Train and mentor junior editors on editorial workflows, tools, and quality standards.
Lead initiatives to enhance asset quality, improve editorial processes, and standardize workflows.
Provide feedback to improve tools, systems, and cross-functional collaboration.
Contribute to continuous process improvement and quality enhancement initiatives.
Participate in key client meetings as required.
Support the creation and maintenance of SOPs, checklists, templates, style guides, and guidance documents.
Stay current with industry's best practices and support leadership in evaluating and implementing new technologies and processes to improve operational efficiency and content quality.
Collaborate effectively with medical writers and creative teams across EVERSANA to ensure high-quality deliverables
Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
All other duties as assigned
Responsible for delivering CLIENT DELIGHT
Responsible for working collaboratively with the EVERSANA medical information and medical affairs team and taking direction and feedback from management and clients
Responsible for ensuring management and compliance with industry standards and codes of practice
Able to work independently to develop high-quality, scientifically accurate, strategically aligned, ethical, and compliant medical content
Responsible for proactively flagging and managing any quality issues, and ensuring timely corrective and preventive actions
Travel: This position may require business travel and will need to be able to travel up to approximately 10%.
Hours: Able to work full time and be flexible with work scheduling as required by clients and management.
The above list reflects the general details necessary to describe the expectations of the position and shall not be construed as the only expectations that may be assigned for the position.
An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the expectations listed above.
Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, education, knowledge, skill and/or abilities required.
Education: Bachelor's degree in life sciences or pharmaceutical stream, along with strong medical editing and scientific writing skills.
Experience and/or Training:
Minimum of 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Medical Information, or Medical Communications, with exposure to medical content development, editorial review, and quality control processes
Demonstrated experience in editorial quality checks, proofreading, and final QC review, including source-to-output verification, reference validation, and data integrity checks.
Familiarity with MLR review processes, including conducting pre-submission quality and compliance checks to support MLR readiness.
Core Skills:
Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to interpret, edit, and summarize complex scientific data accurately for diverse audiences.
Strong ability to establish credibility with stakeholders, including MLR teams and clients.
Proficiency in scientific editing aligned with AMA style, ICMJE guidelines, and regulatory/brand standards.
Advanced analytical and attention-to-detail skills, including the ability to identify data discrepancies, inconsistencies, and errors across documents
Additional Information

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EVERSANA is committed to providing competitive salaries and benefits for all employees. If this job posting includes a base salary range, it represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). This role is eligible for hire in select U.S. locations based on business and operational considerations. For a full list of locations, visit eversana.com/careers . More information about EVERSANA's benefits package can be found at eversana.com/careers . EVERSANA reserves the right to modify this base salary range and benefits at any time.
From EVERSANA's inception, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have always been key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for improving the lives of patients and leading innovation within the healthcare industry. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one's identity. All of our employees' points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.
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