Specialist- Expert Publication Writer

Job Title: Specialist- Expert Publication Writer Career Level: D2 About AstraZeneca AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. Introduction to role: Are you ready to transform sophisticated, developed evidence for publications that compose scientific understanding and responsible clinical decision-m aking? Based at Manyata Tech Park, Bengaluru, this role places you at the center of high-priority publication programmes where clarity, scientific rigor, and strategic influence directly supply to better outcomes for patients. Do you thrive at the intersection of scientific depth, collaborator leadership, and operational excellence? As a Specialist in Publication Writing, you will set publication strategy and guide narratives using multi-study and real-world datasets. You will manage customer concerns related to the most challenging disclosures. This helps ensure outputs achieve the highest standards of ethics, visibility, and quality while increasing impact across our portfolio. Accountabilities : Publication leadership: Provide end-to-end scientific and delivery leadership for sophisticated, strategically critical, or high-risk publication programmes. Resolve approaches in ambiguous scenarios, align multiple workstreams, and remain accountable for quality, risk management, and outcomes that advance our therapeutic narratives. Scientific narrative and critical review: Lead writing and guide review for research papers and symposium content involving multi-study, pooled, indirect-comparison, epidemiological, and health-economic evidence. Resolve difficult methodological and interpretive challenges and guide teams to balanced, defensible conclusions. Sophisticated disclosure strategy: Set the document and evidence strategy for combined data evaluations, detailed analyses, post-hoc assessments, HEOR, and epidemiology publica tions. Anticipate cross-publication dependencies and own escalation for material scientific or delivery risks. Data interpretation and evidence assessment: Challenge assumptions, evaluate analytical choices, and advise on scientifically sound communication of efficacy, safety, real-world evidence, and health economics. Define and lead all aspects of evidence-synthesis approaches that guide publication planning and future disclosures. Submission excellence: Direct submission and resubmission strategies for high-priority or challenging publications. Lead responses to substantive reviewer concerns, guide rejection or transfer decisions, resolve authorship issues, and navigate sophisticated editorial queries to secure the right route to publication. Data visualization standards: Resolve visual approaches for unfamiliar or integrated datasets. Establish standards for clear, responsible figures and guide writers and design partners to innovative, high-quality visual solutions. Compliance and publication ethics leadership: Interpret and apply Good Publication Practice, ICMJE guidance, and internal policies in sophisticated or precedent-setting situations. Act as the escalation point for authorship, disclosure, visibility, and data-integrity matters, collaborating with governance collaborators on defensible resolutions. Collaborator influence: Serve as a trusted adviser to publication leaders, authors, investigators, external experts, and cross-functional teams. Resolve competing perspectives, influence decisions without direct authority, and build alignment across interconnected workstreams and programmes. Capability development: Coach Publication Writers and Senior Publication W