Junior Medical Content Reviewer: Promotional Claims

Junior Medical Content Reviewer:
Promotional Claims

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

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  where the evidence is weak, indirect, outdated, or does not fully support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