Junior Medical Content Reviewer:
Promotional Claims

Level: 11 | Experience: 2–4 years | Location: Mumbai
Reports To: Senior Medical Content Reviewer / Medical Affairs Lead

US Shift: 5:30 pm to 3 am IST

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Role Summary
Identify promotional claims in pharma content and substantiate them with
accurate evidence from scientific literature. Support the MLR review process
and implement reviewer feedback, ensuring materials are scientifically
accurate, balanced, and compliant. Work under the guidance of senior SMEs while
building expertise in evidence appraisal, regulatory guidelines, and MLR
workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Claim Identification

- Review
promotional content and identify every claim, explicit and implied,
including those in headlines, charts, tables, and visuals

- Classify claims
by type: efficacy, safety, comparative, mechanistic, quality of life, and
market leadership

- Break down
compound statements into individual claims that each need substantiation

- Flag
unsupported, off-label, or potentially misleading claims for senior review

- Maintain
accurate claim logs linking each claim to its supporting evidence

Scientific Substantiation via Literature

- Conduct
structured literature searches across PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, and
ClinicalTrials.gov to find evidence for each claim

- Identify the correct
and most relevant literature, prioritizing primary sources (original
clinical trials) over secondary sources (reviews, abstracts)

- Verify that
each reference accurately supports the claim, checking that the
patient population, dose, indication, endpoint, comparator, and timepoint
match exactly

- Extract the
accurate data point, statistic, or statement from the reference and
pinpoint its location (page, table, figure, or section)

- Check that
numbers, percentages, and statistical values in the content match the
source exactly

- Confirm
references are current, published, and from credible peer-reviewed sources

- Flag claims




where the evidence is weak, indirect, outdated, or does not fully support
the wording

- Prepare
substantiation dossiers under senior supervision

Regulatory Compliance

- Use the
approved label (SmPC/PI) as the reference for claim boundaries

- Apply working
knowledge of FDA OPDP, ABPI, and EFPIA guidelines

- Flag fair
balance and off-label concerns

MLR Process & Workflow

- Understand the
end-to-end MLR lifecycle and the distinct roles of medical, legal, and
regulatory reviewers

- Prepare content
for MLR submission with accurate referencing and annotation

- Route and track
content in Veeva Vault PromoMats or an equivalent platform, maintaining
version control and audit trails

MLR Feedback Implementation

- Interpret
reviewer comments accurately, including the intent behind them

- Implement
feedback completely and on time, documenting how each comment was
addressed

- Update
references and annotations when claim wording changes

- Ensure changes
do not alter claim meaning, break references, or affect fair balance

- Escalate
unclear or conflicting comments to senior reviewers

Qualifications

- Bachelor's in
Pharmacy or Life Sciences (mandatory); M.Pharm/MSc preferred

- 2–4 years in
medical writing, medical affairs, clinical research, pharmacovigilance, or
regulatory affairs

Must-Have Skills

- Ability to
identify explicit and implied claims in promotional content

- Hands-on
literature search skills across major scientific databases

- Ability to read
clinical papers and confirm whether a reference accurately supports a
specific claim

- Basic
understanding of clinical trial design and evidence hierarchy

- Basic
understanding of the MLR process and ability to implement reviewer
feedback accurately

- Strong
attention to detail and written communication

Good-to-Have

- Hands-on Veeva
Vault PromoMats experience

- Exposure to
promotional content review

- Therapeutic
area experience (oncology, cardiovascular, immunology, neuroscience)

📌 Junior Medical Content Reviewer: Promotional Claims (Mumbai)
🏢 Recognized
📍 Mumbai