Corcept Therapeutics

Director, Medical Writing

Corcept Therapeutics$183K — $242K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of regulatory medical writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Strong writing skills with knowledge of drug development and regulatory guidelines
  • Experience overseeing and mentoring a medical writing team
  • Familiarity with US and European regulatory requirements
  • Advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, or MS) preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead medical writing in project teams, advising on document content and style
  • Manage and support in-house medical writers and contractors
  • Mentor direct reports to enhance their skills and career growth
  • Write and edit key clinical and regulatory documents like NDAs and CSRs
  • Collaborate with authors and reviewers to meet document timelines
  • Develop and refine medical writing processes and quality controls
  • Maintain expertise on investigational products and regulatory guidelines

Benefits

  • Supportive work environment focusing on career development
  • Opportunities for mentorship and skill enhancement
  • Engagement in high-impact projects in drug development
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Recognition of commitment and hard work of team members
Full Job Description
This position will collaborate with colleagues to write and/or oversee the development of high-quality, strategically aligned medical-writing deliverables supporting the regulatory requirements of a clinical development program, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with US and ex-US regulatory requirements

Responsibilities:
  • Provide Medical Writing leadership in strategic project teams as the medical writing subject matter expert, including advising such teams on content, format, and style requirements for documents
  • Manage in-house medical writing staff, vendors and contractors, providing guidance on prioritization, content, timeline development, and process management
  • Mentor and support direct reports in the development of their skills and careers
  • Author, co-author, critically edit, and format clinical/regulatory documents, including New Drug Applications (NDAs), protocols/protocol amendments, clinical study reports (CSRs), Investigator's Brochures, and other regulatory submissions as needed
  • Collaborate with document authors, contributors, and reviewers to deliver on clinical documents, including effective communication to manage expectations, resolve issues, and ensure alignment on document timelines and content
  • Lead the development/refinement of medical writing processes, SOPs, work instructions, templates, style and content guides, and document quality control to ensure efficient preparation of high-quality medical writing deliverables
  • Maintain subject area expertise related to the company's investigational products, disease indications, and regulatory and publication guidelines

Preferred Skills, Qualifications and Technical Proficiencies:
  • Excellent writing skills coupled with good understanding of the drug development process and relevant regulatory guidelines
  • Ability to write and edit complex material to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and effectiveness
  • Successful track record of working on complex clinical/regulatory writing projects across multiple therapeutic areas
  • Excellent attention to detail, multitasking, prioritization, and flexibility
  • Excellent communication skills with proven ability to interact in a cross-functional environment
  • Understanding of the drug-development process, including research and development processes and objectives and the required documents
  • Familiarity with US and European regulatory requirements and guidelines for documents; general knowledge of electronic Common Technical Document (e-CTD) requirements with respect to structure, format, and content
  • Ability to analyze critically and synthesize complex scientific information from a range of scientific disciplines and clinical therapeutic areas
  • Proficiency in use of MS Office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint), Adobe Acrobat, electronic document management systems (eg, Veeva Vault, Box, SharePoint), and templates (eg, StartingPoint).
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced small company environment with minimal direction and able to adjust workload based on changing priorities
  • Demonstrated initiative and the ability to manage a variety of projects simultaneously with minimal supervision

Preferred Education and Experience:
  • BA/BS degree in a scientific field required; advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD, or MS) preferred
  • 10+ years (Director) of regulatory medical writing experience in the pharmaceutical industry (or an organization serving them), including experience managing a team and writing clinical study protocols, clinical study reports, investigator's brochures, clinical sections of Investigational New Drug (IND) submissions and New Drug Applications (NDAs); and understanding of the content of higher-level summary documents

The pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this headquarters-based position is $183,500 - $242,800; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on legitimate considerations, including geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Corcept appreciates the commitment and hard work of all our team members as we strive to discover and develop novel treatments for patients with serious unmet medical needs.

Please visit our website at: https://www.corcept.com/

Corcept will not conduct interviews via text message or messaging platforms and will not ask you to download anything as part of your interview. Though we use third-party tools to help with advertising our jobs, please be vigilant in checking that the communication is in fact coming from Corcept.

About Corcept Therapeutics

Corcept Therapeutics is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, oncologic and psychiatric disorders. The company's lead product, Korlym, is a cortisol receptor blocker that modulates the effects of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland. Korlym is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome who have type 2 diabetes or glucose intolerance. The company is also developing other cortisol modulators, including CORT125134, which is in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome and solid-tumor cancers. Corcept Therapeutics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Learn more about Corcept Therapeutics
Size
238 employees
Market Cap
$2.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$106 million
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+35.1%
Revenue
$353.8 million
NASDAQ

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