Specialist, Medical Writing

Location: Dublin, Ireland Job reference: R-258629 Date posted: 08/21/2026

Position Summary

This position is accountable for the timely preparation of high-quality regulatory compliant clinical document deliverables for Alexion Rare Disease Unit (Alexion). This position will support the medical writing (MW) activities for one or more clinical programs. This position will function with supervision and guidance from experienced managers or colleagues.

Principal Responsibilities

To support Alexion’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by rare diseases, the Medical Writing & Clinical Trial Transparency (MW&CTT) team drives the development of strategic and compliant documents to enable clinical research and regulatory approval of new therapies, and ensures Alexion’s continued compliance with laws, policies, regulations, and public commitments for transparency and disclosure.

The Alexion MW team provides expert leadership and strategic authoring of high-quality clinical and nonclinical regulatory documents. Alexion MW&CTT team supports Alexion’s core therapeutic areas in all phases of clinical development.

The Specialist, Alexion MW is expected to:

Support document authoring, ensuring that relevant regulatory, technical, and quality standards are achieved, and that relevant processes and best practices are applied.

Support document development by contributing to strategic organization, clarity, accuracy, format, and scientific content.

Manage team reviews, consolidate reviewer comments and assist in reconciling feedback to support timely document finalization.

Apply standards using approved templates, style guides, and standard processes to ensure document quality and compliance.

Collaborate with team members within medical writing and cross-functionally.

Support continuous improvement by contributing to team initiatives that improve document preparation processes, templates, and quality practices.

Contribute to delivery of the organization’s objectives by identifying and adopting appropriate AI-enabled ways of working that improve efficiency, quality, compliance, and collaboration in document development.

Qualifications

This is an entry-level position. Relevant experience in medical writing, clinical development, regulatory writing, scientific communications, or a related field is beneficial.

Demonstrated scientific writing, editing, and communication skills.

Ability to interpret scientific or clinical information and present it clearly and logically.

Ability to work collaboratively in a matrix team environment.

Basic project management and organizational skills, including the ability to manage assigned work to timelines.

Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Office applications and standard document tools.

Knowledge of drug development, clinical research, and regulatory documentation.

Education

Life Sciences degree in an appropriate discipline

Advanced degree (eg, MS, PhD, PharmD) in a scientific discipline is desirable

Date Posted

21-Aug-2026

Closing Date

03-Sept-2026

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