What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Information Specialist position at Actalent?
Job Title: Medical Information Specialist
The Medical Information Specialist is responsible for supporting the medical information needs of healthcare professionals, patients, and internal stakeholders. This role involves the development and management of high-quality medical content, such as Standard Response Letters (SRLs) and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and maintaining product- and disease-specific scientific repositories. The specialist ensures compliance with regulatory standards, collaborates cross-functionally with internal teams such as Drug Safety and Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs), and provides operational support through tracking, reporting, and database management.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely, accurate, balanced, and compliant responses to unsolicited medical inquiries received from healthcare professionals, patients, and internal stakeholders.
- Support inquiry fulfillment via field team requests and the call center.
- Triage and manage Medical Information Requests (MIRFs) from healthcare professionals.
- Maintain and update Standard Response Letters (SRLs), FAQs, and product/disease-state repositories to support medical inquiry responses.
- Ensure content alignment with current product labeling and scientific data, and manage version control and repository updates.
- Support operational tasks including documentation for grants and IITs, vendor coordination, and purchase order tracking.
- Assist with vendor onboarding and support systems related to Medical Information operations, including tracking purchase orders, contracts, and budget documentation.
- Oversee medical information databases and inquiry tracking tools, analyze trends in inquiries, and prepare reports to communicate actionable insights to internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with MSLs, Drug Safety, and other internal teams to ensure consistent scientific messaging.
Essential Skills
- Master's degree in a health-related or scientific discipline (e.g., MS in Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Sciences or Biomedical Sciences).
- 1–3 years of experience in Medical Information, Medical Writing, or other relevant functions in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences industry.
- Demonstrated expertise in medical information communication and management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational skills, task-oriented, and strong attention to detail and deadlines.
- Ability to engage collaboratively with stakeholders.
- Expertise in Microsoft Office, Teams, and Veeva Vault Systems.
- Literature database search skills.
- Understanding of global regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Doctorate Degree / Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD in a relevant discipline) - Preferred.
Work Environment
The role requires the employee to be on site in Bridgewater HQ 3 days a week. T
Job Type & Location
This is a Permanent position based out of Bridgewater, New Jersey.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $90000.00 - $110000.00/yr.
Amneal offers a short-term incentive opportunity, such as a bonus or performance-based award with this position within the first 12 months. Amneal ranges reflect the Company’s good faith estimate of what Amneal reasonably believes that it will pay for said position at the time of the posting. Individual compensation will ultimately be determined based on a variety of relevant factors, including but not limited to, qualifications, experience, geographic location and other relevant skills.
At the heart of our Total Rewards commitment is a comprehensive, flexible and competitive benefits program for eligible positions that enables you to choose the plans and coverage that meet your personal needs. This includes above-market, diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our employees as well as a significant 401(k) matching contribution to help our employees save for retirement. We also promote employee well-being with programs that help you enjoy your career alongside life’s many other commitments and opportunities.
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Bridgewater,NJ.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 10, 2025.
About Actalent
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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Salary : $90,000 - $110,000