Associate Director, Medical Writer

Spyre Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering long-acting antibodies and antibody combinations to redefine the standard of care for inflammatory bowel disease (“IBD”) and rheumatic diseases. Spyre's pipeline includes investigational extended half-life antibodies targeting α4β7, TL1A, and IL-23.

Role Summary:

As Associate Director, Medical Writer, you will lead or make key contributions to clinical and regulatory documents within our organization. You will be responsible for medical writing strategy and timely deliverables for one or more projects or programs. You will be responsible for authoring clinical, nonclinical and regulatory documents. You may be responsible for oversight or general assistance to medical writing consultants and other writers.

You will collaborate with cross-functional subject matter experts (SMEs) to meet aggressive timelines. You will project manage high-quality documents and/or submissions from start to finish, develop strong relationships, and be an advocate for best practices in Medical Writing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead projects, submissions and documentation for programs independently. Collaborate with manager and other functions on planning and appropriate resourcing.

• Provide medical writing strategy to program teams, ensuring business goals and regulatory needs are met.

• Author key clinical, nonclinical and regulatory documents, including but not limited to clinical study protocols, amendments, IBs, CSRs, data summaries, CTD summaries, briefing books and meeting responses.
o Develop timelines in collaboration with our team. Plan for required data with SMEs, if applicable.
o Co-author documents with relevant cross-functional SMEs. Ensure required elements are clearly described and documents comply with ethical and regulatory standards. Manage review cycles (including collaboration with stakeholders to address comments).
o Coordinate QC, finalization and publication of documents
o Review or contribute to supporting study documents, including but not limited to informed consent forms, study charters, or pharmacy manuals, if required.
o Ensure key messages are clear and consistent across and within documents.

• Represents the medical writing function in cross-functional teams.

• Provide status updates to keep teams, department, and leadership informed.

• Identify risks and contribute to risk mitigation or contingency planning for submission activities.

• Possible oversight of contract medical writers, ensuring high-quality documents delivered and timelines met.

• Proactively contribute to process improvements and standards across the team. Develop or maintain document templates, job aids, tools, and training materials.

• Advocate across cross-functional teams to implement industry best practices such as lean authoring and strategic review.

Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific discipline, preferably in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biology, or related field. Advanced degree (MS, PhD, MD, PharmD) is a plus.

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in relevant regulatory medical writing is required.

• Proven track record of program- and/or submission-level management

• Ability to manage multiple projects and timelines simultaneously

• Proven track record of leading and authoring high-quality clinical and regulatory documents, including for complex document types.

• Strong knowledge of global pharmaceutical regulations and guidelines, including FDA, EMA, and ICH requirements.

• Knowledge of drug-drug and biologic-biologic combination products as well as the design of clinical studies for such products is a plus.

• Excellent leadership, collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills (taking initiative, problem solving, conflict resolution, change management, strategic thinking).

• Ability to meet deadlines and adapt to changing priorities.

• Expert in word processing software (e.g., Office) and document management systems (e.g., Veeva).

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you help shape the culture of our young company, contribute broadly to advance meaningful medicines, and learn quickly.

• Market competitive compensation and benefits package, including base salary, performance bonus, equity grant opportunities, health, welfare & retirement benefits.

• Unlimited PTO

• Two, one-week company-wide shutdowns each

• Commitment to provide professional development opportunities.

• Remote working environment with frequent in-person meetings to address complex problems and build relationships.

The expected salary range offer for this role is $175,000 to $200,000. Actual pay offered may vary depending on job related knowledge, experience, education, and geographic location.

As an equal opportunity employer, Spyre is committed to a diverse workforce. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, genetic information or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job-related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws. We also embrace differences in experience and background, and welcome diversity of opinions and thought with active recruitment designed to create a stronger and better Spyre that is focused on developing life-changing products for patients.

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