Principal Medical Writer - Regulatory Submission Documents

Syneos Health, Inc.; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 80.000 - 145.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A major biopharmaceutical solutions organization in Barcelona is seeking a Principal Medical Writer to lead the preparation of regulatory submission documents. This role involves ensuring scientific information is presented accurately and completing a variety of clinical documents. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of relevant writing experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. The position offers competitive benefits, including health insurance and a flexible paid time off policy.

Servicios

Health benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision

401k company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan eligibility

Commissions/bonus based on performance

Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

Formación

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in science, technical, or medical writing.
• Experience in the biopharmaceutical, device, or contract research organization industry.
• Strong understanding of FDA and ICH regulations.

Responsabilidades

• Lead the clear and accurate completion of medical writing deliverables.
• Manage medical writing activities associated with individual studies.
• Complete a variety of documents including clinical study protocols and reports.

Conocimientos

Presentation skills

Proofreading

Interpersonal skills

Project management

Time management

MS Office proficiency

Medical terminology understanding

Educación

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Graduate degree preferred

Descripción del empleo

Principal Medical Writer - Regulatory Submission Documents

Updated: December 3, 2025
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Principal Medical Writer - Regulatory Submission Documents

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

• Lead the clear and accurate completion of medical writing deliverables, ensuring scientific information is presented clearly and accurately
• Manage medical writing activities associated with individual studies, coordinating these activities within and across departments with minimal supervision
• Complete a variety of documents, including clinical study protocols, amendments, 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
• Adhere to established regulatory standards, including ICH E3 guidelines, company standard operating procedures, client standards, and approved templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides
• Coordinate quality and editorial reviews, ensuring source documentation is managed appropriately
• Act as a peer reviewer for the internal team to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format
• Review statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, grammar, format, and consistency, providing feedback to further define statistical output required and document needs
• Interact and build good working relations with clients, department heads, and peers in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs to produce writing deliverables
• Perform online clinical literature searches and comply with copyright requirements
• Identify and propose solutions to resolve issues, providing technical support, training, and consultation to department and other company staff
• Mentor and lead less experienced medical writers on complex projects
• Develop deep expertise on key topics in the industry and regulatory requirements
• Work within budget specifications for assigned projects

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline with relevant writing experience; graduate degree preferred
• 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
• Experience writing relevant document types required
• Extensive knowledge of English grammar and ability to communicate clearly; strong familiarity with AMA Manual of Style

Necessary Skills:

• Strong presentation, proofreading, collaborative, and interpersonal skills
• Strong project and time management skills
• Strong proficiency in MS Office
• Strong understanding of medical terminology, principles of clinical research, and how to interpret and present clinical data and other complex information

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.

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.

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.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

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.
Continually, 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.

Summary

Roles within the Medical Writing job family at the P22 level are responsible for writing and editing manuscripts and other medical communications on clinical studies and scientific reports. This includes special summaries from raw data for submission to regulatory agencies or for in-company use, monographs, comprehensive reviews, scientific exhibits, and other projects requiring skill in medical communication. The role involves screening, analyzing, and summarizing additional data from other sources as needed, conducting systematic literature searches and reviews, preparing literature for new products, and revising existing medical communication. These roles review and analyze statistical outputs to prepare results-based documents such as clinical study reports and development safety update reports. They support engagement and interaction with regulatory agencies through the preparation of briefing books and response documents to health authority questions. They may be responsible for entire projects or processes within their area of responsibility.

These roles review and analyze statistical outputs to prepare results-based documents such as clinical study reports and development safety update reports. They support engagement and interaction with regulatory agencies through the preparation of briefing books and response documents to health authority questions. These roles lead the resolution of comments from clients and complete a variety of documents, including clinical study protocols, amendments, 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 abstract, poster, and presentation for scientific meetings.

They adhere to established regulatory standards, including ICH E3 guidelines, company standard operating procedures, client standards, and approved templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides. They coordinate quality and editorial reviews, ensure source documentation is managed appropriately and act as peer reviewers for the internal team to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format. These roles coordinate quality and editorial reviews and act as peer reviewers for the internal team to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format. They coordinate quality and editorial reviews, ensure source documentation is managed appropriately and act as peer reviewers for the internal team to ensure document scientific content and clarity overall consistency and proper format.

Work within budget specifications for assigned projects. They support engagement and interaction with regulatory agencies through the preparation of briefing books and responses to health authority questions. They may be responsible for entire projects or for processes within their area of responsibility, and may provide mentoring and training. They may provide solutions to client's questions or standards. They build good working relationships with clients and department heads and other teams, managing a ‘FAH’ approach. A vary practical approach to synergy is specially important. They may their proposals as holistic content. They will assist in judgement decisions, keep correct and consistent. They may continually risk and unify the company's work.

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improvespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health ® (Nasdaq:SYNH) 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. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and advanced business practices. to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We support a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.