Norstella is looking for Reporter

At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quicker—and help patients in need.

Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle —and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time.

Each Organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) Delivers Must-have Answers For Critical Strategic And Commercial Decision-making. Together, Via Our Market-leading Brands, We Help Our Clients

• Citeline – accelerate the drug development cycle
• Evaluate – bring the right drugs to market
• MMIT – identify barrier to patient access
• Panalgo – turn data into insight faster
• The Dedham Group – think strategically for specialty therapeutics

By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.

The Role

At Citeline (a Norstella company), we have an exciting opportunity for a Reporter/Journalist to join our international editorial team and become part of an industry-leading pharma, medtech and consumer health intelligence business.

Our editorial team is passionate about delivering accurate, timely, and impactful information that shapes industry decisions. Our dedicated team of writers based in countries around the world collaborate around the clock to keep our subscribers up to date, not just on what’s happening in the pharma/medtech/consumer health industries, but what it means for them. You’d be joining a group of products with an 80+-year reputation for in-depth news and analysis and a wealth of journalistic experience, industry knowledge and high-level contacts.

We’re looking for someone who can turn around specialized biopharma/medtech industry news stories accurately and fast.

Do you have experience of news reporting for a business audience? Can you digest the key points of a company press release and reference other sources to bring our professional audience context and actionable insights? Complement your writing with compelling data charts and graphs? Source original stories from databases and industry analysis? Develop new formats for presenting valuable information? Work to tight deadlines while maintaining an eagle eye for detail? Then we want to hear from you.

Join Citeline’s editorial team and keep our subscribers abreast of the key developments in the global pharmaceutical/medtech/biotech/consumer health industry.

Duties And Responsibilities

In a typical week you could:

• Write on issues such as
• Company deal making or financial updates
• Company leadership and strategy
• Pipeline progress for medicines in development
• Therapeutic area market intelligence
• Scientific conference coverage
• Regulatory and policy changes
• Market access, pricing and reimbursement
• Developments in specific global markets
• Source secondary analysis or data to augment your articles
• Compose new editions of templated columns”. Or “collaborate with international colleagues to produce templated columns and tables on a regular basis
• Collaborate with international colleagues on reporting about key industry conferences globally developing your knowledge and specialist reporting of a particular topic of interest to industry

Skills And Attributes

We are looking for an experienced business journalist who can write engaging content to tight deadlines. Knowledge of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries will be an advantage.

We also welcome applications from candidates who can convincingly demonstrate:

• Ability to write clearly, news writing skills, and keen judgment;
• Ability to understand and interpret data – and to leverage internal data assets to create original content
• Intellectual curiosity – ie: desire for knowledge, preparedness to ask and learn, and an authentic interest in other perspectives;
• Ability to extract key messages from complex information and communicate these effectively and succinctly (through written word/other formats)
• High attention to detail, with the ability to consistently deliver articles requiring minimal editing
• Desire to experiment and innovate with new formats and approaches
• Collaborative approach to working with colleagues across the business
• Flexibility to cope with challenging workloads and occasional unexpected scheduling;
• Computer literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) – and capacity to learn custom editorial systems and infographic tools
• Embrace digital tools and innovation that support creation of high-quality journalism and content
• You should have a degree in journalism, sciences, languages or economics or equivalent career experience.