VIATRIS INNOVATION GMBH Posted June 29, 2026

Expert Medical Writer

Allschwil-Office, Switzerland Full time
Regulatory Affairs

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About this opportunity

VIATRIS INNOVATION GMBH

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.

We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realize their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

The Expert Medical Writer provides strategic, scientific, and operational leadership for the planning, authoring, and coordination of high-impact clinical and regulatory documents that support global marketing applications. In addition to hands-on writing, the role serves as Programme Medical Writer for complex submissions, drives documentation strategy across therapeutic areas, mentors a team of writers, and champions continuous improvement of writing processes with a specific focus on new technologies.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Expert Medical Writer role will make an impact:

Program‐level leadership – Lead, oversee, and coordinate medical‑writing deliverables for full CTD submissions across multiple development programs (e.g., clinical‑overview and summary modules) ensuring scientific integrity, consistency, and on‑time delivery.

Scientific & strategic contribution – Act as subject‑matter expert on regulatory requirements; provide guidance on data‑pooling, analysis plans, and document positioning to study and submission teams.

Authoring / reviewing – Independently write or critically review CSRs, CTD Module 2 documents, responses to agency questions, briefing packages, 120‑day safety updates, PIPs, investigator brochures, and other documents as needed.

Cross‑functional collaboration – Partner with Clinical, Biostatistics, Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Safety, CMC, Regulatory Affairs, and other stakeholders to align data presentation and messaging.

People & vendor management – Supervise Senior/Regulatory Writers and Disclosure managers; provide coaching, performance feedback, and professional development. Manage outsourced writing vendors, ensuring quality and budget adherence.

Process/technology improvement – Initiate and drive cross‑functional initiatives to enhance templates, authoring tools, and quality systems related to regulatory writing with a focus on AI and other innovative technologies.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

BSc in Life Sciences or equivalent

Over 7 years’ medical‑writing experience in pharma/biotech with multiple successful global submissions; leadership of one or more junior-level writers.

Advanced knowledge of global regulatory guidelines

Proven ability to interpret and present complex scientific data clearly

Excellent written & spoken English

Ability to set priorities, manage risk, and meet aggressive timelines

Track record of mentoring writers and influencing senior stakeholders

What we offer

Friendly working atmosphere in a great team, Great Place to Work® certified

Development opportunities within an international company

Different benefits e. g. pension scheme, lunch allowance

This role needs to be onsite in our Allschwil Office near Basel minimum 4 days per week

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

A t Viatris, we offer   competitive   salar ies , benefits   and   an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Regulatory Affairs
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Allschwil-Office, Switzerland
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Regulatory Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 305 comparable Regulatory Affairs roles across 66 biopharma companies.

305Comparable roles tracked
275Currently active
66Companies hiring similar roles
37Countries represented

Salary context

85 of 305 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Highest disclosed · AVP, Therapeutic Area Head, Clinical Safety and Risk Management · Merck $378,100/yr – $595,100/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $486,600 (median $205,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 305 comparable roles

United States124
Ireland25
India25
United Kingdom17
Poland16
Japan13

+ 31 more countries

Seniority mix

261 of 305 peers have a known seniority level

Manager112
Director61
Senior27
Associate Director26
Senior Director12
Executive/VP11
Associate8
Principal2
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc2

Therapeutic area mix

33 of 305 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology10
Dermatology & Aesthetics6
Neuroscience6
Immunology4
Cardiovascular / CVRM2
Rare Disease2
Respiratory2
Vaccines & Infectious Disease1

Similar opportunities

The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

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40%similar
Roche Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland Director
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25%similar
Lilly Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Same function

Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.

25%similar
Lilly Shanghai, Shanghai, China Manager
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Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.

25%similar
Lilly Bracknell, United Kingdom Principal
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Matched on job function only -- seniority, specialty, and location weren't confirmed as aligned.

25%similar
Lilly Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America Senior Director
Same function

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

40%
Regulatory Affairs Manager (80%)
AbbVie · Cham, ZG · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
25%
Sr Regulatory Affairs Manager- DIA
Lilly · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
25%
Associate Director/Director, GRA, Regulatory Affairs Head – Canada
Lilly · Ontario, Ontario, Canada · Associate Director
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
25%
Sr.Manager- Regulatory Delivery Excellence, China Regulatory Affairs
Lilly · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · Manager
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.