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

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where the evidence is weak, indirect, outdated, or does not fully support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