Principal Medical Writer – Publications

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About the role

  • Principal Medical Writer developing clinical and regulatory publications for Syneos Health’s life-sciences services. Leading complex documents, reviews, client coordination, and regulatory-compliant medical writing.

Responsibilities

  • Lead clear and accurate completion of complex medical writing deliverables
  • Manage medical writing activities for individual studies, including document strategy and cross-department coordination
  • Lead resolution of client comments
  • Write clinical study protocols, amendments, clinical study reports, patient narratives, investigator brochures, informed consents, plain language summaries, safety reports, clinical development plans, regulatory submissions, journal manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and presentations
  • Ensure compliance with ICH E3 guidelines, regulatory standards, SOPs, client standards, templates, authorship requirements, and style guides
  • Advise clients and study teams on data presentation and production strategies
  • Lead document reviews and coordinate quality and editorial reviews
  • Serve as an expert peer reviewer
  • Review statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications
  • Collaborate with clients and teams in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs
  • Perform online clinical literature searches and comply with copyright requirements
  • Identify and resolve issues, escalating as appropriate
  • Serve as a technical subject matter expert and contribute to internal materials, presentations, processes, and capabilities
  • Mentor and lead less experienced medical writers
  • Develop expertise in industry topics and regulatory requirements
  • Engage externally with industry groups
  • Monitor project budgets and contribute to bid projections
  • Communicate status and negotiate timelines and deliverables with medical writing leadership
  • Represent medical writing on clinical study teams, at conferences, meetings, and client presentations
  • Complete administrative tasks and other assigned duties

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of relevant experience in science, technical, or medical writing
  • Extensive experience working in the biopharmaceutical, device, or contract research organization industry
  • Advanced understanding of FDA and ICH regulations and guidelines and/or good publication practices
  • Extensive experience writing relevant document types
  • Extensive knowledge of English grammar and ability to communicate clearly
  • Strong familiarity with AMA Manual of Style
  • Experience with complex medical writing deliverables and relevant clinical/regulatory document types
  • Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered

Benefits

  • Career development and progression
  • Supportive and engaged line management
  • Technical and therapeutic area training
  • Peer recognition and total rewards program
  • Inclusive culture
  • Comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing
  • Opportunities for career paths and employment progression
  • Minimal travel requirement (less than 25%)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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