Sr. / Principal Medical Writer (Regulatory focus) - Sponsor-dedicated; US/CAN

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.

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. 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

• 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 that may include clinical study protocols and clinical study 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, but not limited to, ICH E3 guidelines, as well as company standard operating procedures, client standards, and company and/or client approved-templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides, when 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 head, and peers in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs, as necessary, 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 or 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

• Minimum of 5 years of lead regulatory writing experience.
• Lead writing experience must have experience with Phase 2 and 3.
• Lead writer experience with protocols, submissions, clinical Summary of Safety (CTD) Modules 2.7.3 and 2.7.4, CSRs (Clinical Study Reports), IBs (Investigator Brochure), Patient Narratives, Safety Aggregate Reports (plus), Briefing books, ISE and ISS (Integrated Summary Efficacy and Integrated Summary Safety).
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong client experience.
• Time management skills a must.
• Process experience is a huge plus.
• Remote – Open to US and Canada.

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, health benefits to include medical, dental and vision, company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, 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. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.