Sr Principal Communication/ Publication Strategy - Single Sponsor - CMPP Certified

Syneos Health, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

A biopharmaceutical solutions organization based in Toronto, Canada, is seeking a Medical Writer to lead complex medical writing tasks while adhering to regulatory standards. The candidate will manage document strategies and mentor junior writers, ensuring the delivery of high-quality work. This role involves collaboration with various teams and maintaining client relationships. A competitive salary range and comprehensive benefits are offered, including potential bonus eligibility and flexible paid time off.

Benefits

Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

Flexible paid time off (PTO)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Qualifications

• Proven experience in medical writing with complex deliverables.
• Strong understanding of regulatory guidelines such as ICH E3.
• Excellent communication skills for client interactions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the completion of medical writing deliverables accurately.
• Maintain quality and compliance in all written documents.
• Advise clients on data presentation strategies.
• Mentor junior medical writers and oversee document reviews.
• Engage with industry groups and stay updated on regulatory changes.

Skills

Medical writing

Regulatory knowledge

Statistical analysis

Communication

Mentorship

Education

Relevant degree in Life Sciences or related field

Tools

MS Office Suite

Statistical software

Job description

Updated: November 13, 2025
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

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:

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

• Leads the clear and accurate completion of complex medical writing deliverables, ensuring scientific information is presented clearly and accurately. Manages medical writing activities associated with individual studies, defining document strategy and 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; annual reports; 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.
• Advises clients and study teams on data presentation and production strategies to ensure that client objectives/expectations are met and quality standards are maintained.
• Leads team document reviews and reviews documents for technical issues. Coordinates quality and editorial reviews and ensures source documentation is managed appropriately.
• Serves as expert peer reviewer for internal team, providing review comments to give maximum clarity of meaning, accuracy, and relevance, and to ensure that client objectives are met and overall quality standards are maintained.
• 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 relationships with clients, department head, and team members in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs, as necessary, to produce writing deliverables. Works with staff across company to advance company priorities.
• Performs online clinical literature searches and complies with copyright requirements.
• Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues, escalating as appropriate. Serves as a key technical SME and contributes to development of internal materials and presentations on needed topics. Contributes to changes to internal process, standard practices, and capabilities.
• Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex documents.
• Develops deep expertise on key topics in the industry and the regulatory requirements and guidelines that affect medical writing. Engages externally with industry groups on industry initiatives.
• Aware of budget specifications for assigned projects, communicating status and changes to medical writing leadership. Contributes to bid projections.
• Communicates status and changes to medical writing leadership; negotiates timelines and assigned deliverables.
• Represents the medical writing department on clinical study teams, at conferences, meetings, and for presentations to the client regarding writing projects.
• Completes required administrative tasks within the specified timeframes.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
• Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).

Salary Range:
$95,000.00 - $175,700.00

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. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

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. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.