Reporter - Generics Bulletin (Pharma)

Citeline is one of the world's leading providers of data and intelligence on clinical trials, drug treatments, medical devices and what's new in the regulatory and commercial landscape. Relying on us to deliver vital advantage when making critical R&D and commercial decisions, our customers come from over 3000 of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, contract research organizations (CROs), medical technology, biotechnology and healthcare service providers, including the top 10 global pharma and CROs.

From drug and device discovery and development to regulatory approval, and from product launch to lifecycle management, we provide the intelligence and insight to help our customers seize opportunities, mitigate risk and make business-critical decisions, faster. As the pharma and healthcare sector faces unparalleled upheaval, customers rely on our independent advice, enabling them to cut through the clutter and make sense of changing drug development, regulatory and competitive landscapes.

Now, Citeline is proud to be a part of Norstella, an organization that consists of market-leading pharmaceutical solutions providers united under one goal: to improve patient access to life-saving therapies. Within this organization, Citeline plays a key role in helping clients connect the dots from pipeline to patient.

What you’ll be doing:

Generics Bulletin (part of Citeline, a Norstella company) is hiring a reporter to work on our digital platform that delivers high quality real-time published news and insight on the generic and biosimilar medicines industries, keeping clients on top of the industry events that matter and supporting them to make business decisions, ultimately enabling them to provide improved access to medicines for patients.

As a Reporter for Generics Bulletin, in a typical week you would:

Write daily news stories (around 500 words) for the readers of Generics Bulletin on issues such as:

business results, strategy and deal-making
leadership changes
regulatory developments
product development
patent litigation

As a reporter you will also:

Interview company executives and other industry experts to augment your articles
Develop a data-led infographic
Research/write a feature length story (around 1,500 words)
Attend conferences/meetings to report news, conduct interviews and build relationships
Other duties as assigned

Requirements

You’ll have the edge on other candidates if you have journalism experience, especially in the pharmaceutical arena but we are also open to journalism experience from other sectors.
Ability to extract key messages from complex information – including technical regulatory subject matter – and communicate these effectively and succinctly.
Experience of interviewing company executives and other industry experts to gain fresh insights.
High level of curiosity – a desire for knowledge, prepared to ask and learn, with an authentic interest in others.
High attention to detail, enabling you to consistently deliver articles requiring minimal editing.
Microsoft Office suite, and familiarity with content management systems and infographic.

Advantageous and nice to have

Knowledge of the generics and biosimilars sector would also be a great advantage.
A qualification in journalism is advantageous. We would also consider anyone with other qualifications in sciences, languages, economics or equivalent career experience.
A second language and/or knowledge of emerging markets would also be advantageous.