Senior Medical Writer - Publications

Location: London, LND, United Kingdom

Job ID: 25108596-OTHLOC-3526-2DR

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need. 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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.

Job Responsibilities:

• Leads the clear and accurate completion of medical writing deliverables, ensuring scientific information is presented clearly and accurately.
• Manages medical writing activities associated with individual studies, coordinating medical writing activities within and across departments with minimal supervision.
• Leads the resolution of comments from the client.
• Completes a variety of documents including clinical study protocols and protocol amendments; clinical study reports; patient narratives; annual reports; investigator brochures; informed consents; plain language summaries; periodic safety update reports; clinical development plans; IND submissions; integrated summary reports; NDA and eCTD submissions; journal manuscripts; and abstracts, posters, and presentations for scientific meetings.
• Adheres to established regulatory standards, including ICH E3 guidelines, and company standard operating procedures, client standards, and approved templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides, completing medical writing projects on time and on budget.
• Coordinates quality and editorial reviews, ensures source documentation is managed appropriately, leads team document reviews, and reviews documents as needed.
• Acts as peer reviewer for internal team to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format.
• Reviews statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, and for grammar, format, and consistency; provides feedback to further define statistical output required and document needs.
• Interacts and builds good working relations with clients, department heads, and peers in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs to produce writing deliverables.
• Performs online clinical literature searches and complies with copyright requirements.
• Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues, escalating as appropriate; provides technical support, training, and consultation to department and other company staff; may contribute to development of internal materials and presentations and changes to internal process, standard practices, and capabilities.
• Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex projects, as necessary.
• Develops deep expertise on key topics in the industry and the regulatory requirements and guidelines that affect medical writing.
• Aware of budget specifications for assigned projects, working within the budgeted hours and communicating status and changes to medical writing leadership.
• Completes required administrative tasks within the specified timeframes.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
• Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in science, technical, or medical writing.
• Experience working in the biopharmaceutical, device, or contract research organization industry required.
• Strong understanding of FDA and ICH regulations, other regulatory guidelines, and/or good publication practices strongly required.
• Extensive knowledge of English grammar and ability to communicate clearly; strong familiarity with AMA Manual of Style.
• Experience writing relevant document types required.

Benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, medical, dental and vision health benefits, company match 401k, employee stock purchase plan eligibility, eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Salary Range: $80,600.00 - $145,000.00

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture where people can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance.