Medical Scientist (12 Month Fixed Term Contract- UK and Canada Only)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know: WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE.

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.

We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

• This is a 12 month fixed term contract role - possibility to renew based off performance and budget.
• Must be located in UK or Canada with no sponsorship needs to be considered for this role.
• Must hold a MD.
• Must have at least 2 years of direct patient care experience POST residency.
• Works with Medical Director to develop medical plans (Medical Management Plan, Medical Data Review Plan, and Eligibility Review Plan).
• Engages with outside experts/consultants/advisors to coordinate the acquisition of necessary medical/scientific input to prepare the respective medical plans.
• Performs regular and ad-hoc medical review of data listings and data visualization as needed; analyzes the data to identify risks and data patterns/trends and supports documentation of medical reviews.
• Authors medical data queries and reviews query responses, approves query closure in association with Medical Director.
• May assist Medical Director in patient profiles review, scientific review of other study level data, protocol deviation review, creation of Medical Review Summary report as needed.
• Partners with Medical Directors for medical data review meetings and safety review meetings including slide preparation as needed.
• Manages project scope of work, objectives, and quality of deliverables to ensure the project specific milestones and timelines are met.
• Serves as primary interface between internal team, customers, and vendors in the areas of medical data review and eligibility review.
• Collaborates with study team members including Clinical Operations, Data Management, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, and Project Management (set-up and/or lead meetings as appropriate) to identify risks related to data integrity and subject safety.
• Escalates ongoing and newly developed study concerns such as at-risk project deliverables and out of-scope tasks to the project leads in a timely manner.
• Attends Trusted Process meetings and may participate in internal and external audits.
• Acquires basic understanding and knowledge of ongoing protocol designs and disease related terminology and pathology.
• Adheres to all data privacy guidelines, International Committee on Harmonization (ICH), and Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), all enterprise policies, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and project plans.
• Adheres to customer policies and standard operating procedures, as required in project plans.

Qualifications

• MD is required.
• 2+ years of direct patient care experience POST residency.
• Excellent time management skills to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines while delivering high quality work in a highly regulated and dynamic environment is essential.
• A self-starter and comfortable with fluctuating timelines, work demands and changes in scope of work.
• Ability to troubleshoot situations as needed and understands when issues or questions need to be escalated to the leadership.
• Understanding of scientific principles to assure effective and high-quality medical data analysis.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent computer skills: MS Office programs, spreadsheets, presentations.
• Prefer knowledge of drug development and demonstrated proficiency with ICH/GCP guidelines.
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we take into consideration transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world.