Sr Medical Writer (Device protocol, CSR (CIR), 501K and others)

Syneos Health, Inc.; Canada; Remote; USD 60,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking biopharmaceutical solutions organization as a Senior Medical Writer, where your expertise in clinical documentation will drive success. This role involves leading writing projects, mentoring junior writers, and crafting essential documents such as clinical study protocols and reports. Collaborate with passionate professionals in a culture that values diversity and inclusion, ensuring that your contributions make a real impact on patient outcomes. With a commitment to employee development and a supportive environment, this position offers a unique opportunity to thrive in a dynamic industry. If you're ready to challenge the status quo and make a difference, this role is for you.

Benefits

Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

Company car or car allowance

401k company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Flexible paid time off (PTO)

Sick time

Commissions/bonus eligibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with relevant writing experience or scientific/medical knowledge.
• Extensive knowledge of FDA and ICH regulations, AMA style guide familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex projects.
• Develops clinical study protocols, reports, and other essential documents.

Skills

English grammar

presentation skills

proofreading

interpersonal skills

leadership skills

clinical research principles

Education

Bachelor of Science degree

Bachelor of Arts degree (Social Sciences, English or Communications)

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

email

Internet

Job description

Sr Medical Writer (Device protocol, CSR (CIR), 501K and others)

Updated: Yesterday
Location: Canada-North America - CAN-Home-Based
Job ID:24005637

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

Why Syneos Health

• 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

• Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex projects, as necessary.
• Acts as lead for assigned writing projects.
• Manages medical writing activities associated with individual studies, coordinating medical writing activities within and across departments with minimal supervision.
• Develops or supports a variety of documents that include, but not limited to:
  • Clinical study protocols and clinical protocol amendments;
  • Clinical study reports;
  • Patient narratives;
  • Clinical development plans;
  • IND submissions and annual reports;
  • Integrated summary reports;
  • NDA and (e)CTD submissions;
  • Investigator brochures, as well as;
  • Clinical journal manuscripts, clinical journal abstracts, and client presentations.
• Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues and questions arising during the writing process, including resolution or escalation as appropriate.
• Reviews statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, and for grammar, format, and consistency.
• Interacts with department head and staff members in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs as necessary to produce writing deliverables.
• Serves as peer reviewer on internal review team providing review comments on draft and final documents.
• 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 when completing medical writing projects, on-time and on-budget.
• Performs on-line clinical literature searches, as applicable.
• Maintains familiarity with current industry practices and regulatory requirements and guidelines that affect medical writing.
• Maintains awareness of budget specifications for assigned projects, working within the budgeted hours and communicating changes to medical writing leadership.
• Completes required administrated tasks within the specified timeframes.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned. Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor of Science degree with relevant writing experience or Bachelor of Arts degree (Social Sciences, English or Communications, preferred) with relevant scientific and/or medical knowledge and expertise.
• Extensive knowledge of English grammar and FDA and ICH regulations and guidelines as well as a familiarity with AMA style guide.
• Demonstrated high degree of independence with effective presentation, proofreading, interpersonal, and leadership skills and ensure a team-oriented approach.
• Strong proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, and Internet.
• Ability to demonstrate a familiarity with principles of clinical research and to interpret and present clinical data and other complex information.

Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

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.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $60,930 to $115,100. 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.

Additional Information:
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.

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.

Syneos Health is a leading 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. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We