Senior Medical Editor

Syneos Health, Inc.; Madrid; A distancia; EUR 59.000 - 77.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading biopharmaceutical solutions organization is seeking a Senior Medical Editor to ensure compliance with FDA and EU standards. This role involves managing editorial projects, providing training, and maintaining high-quality standards in medical writing. Ideal candidates will possess relevant experience in regulatory documentation and copyediting, with a commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

Servicios

Career development and progression

Diverse and inclusive workplace culture

Formación

• Must have strong familiarity with FDA and EU guidelines.
• Requires experience in medical writing and editing.
• Proven capability in managing complex projects.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain compliance with regulatory guidelines.
• Represent editorial group on project teams.
• Monitor timelines and budgets for assigned projects.
• Conduct training for medical writing staff.

Conocimientos

Familiarity with FDA and EU guidelines

Medical writing expertise

Project management skills

Copyediting skills

Training and mentoring capabilities

Educación

Relevant educational background in life sciences or similar

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Senior Medical Editor - Regulatory (EMEA Home Based)

Updated: August 19, 2025

Location: ESP-Remote (Madrid)

Senior Medical Editor - Regulatory (EMEA Home Based). Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model centers the customer and the patient. We continuously seek ways to simplify and streamline our work to make Syneos Health easier to work with and 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 to accelerate the delivery of therapies and 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 unites us globally and we take care of our people.
• We continuously build a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintains strong familiarity with FDA, EU, and other relevant guidelines and industry standards to ensure that documents meet or exceed sponsor and regulatory requirements and guidance.
• Represents the editorial group in medical writing, on study teams, and in cross-departmental project teams as needed.
• Monitors timelines and budgets for assigned projects and updates the lead medical writer, project manager, and/or direct supervisor if deliverables are at risk.
• Provides technical support and expertise as appropriate. Conducts training of medical editing staff and functions as a mentor. Advises medical writers, medical editors, and study teams on quality review, compilation, and editorial standards. Provides training to members of the global medical writing team in aspects relative to their roles.
• Serves as project lead for deliverables of assigned complex and/or large medical writing projects, including scheduling and leading internal project-specific team meetings, organizing project-specific requirements, and ensuring all information is distributed to the editorial team and implemented within the deliverable.
• Serves as a member of the medical writing team for projects with medical writing deliverables. Provides feedback to the lead medical writer on progress of editorial process.
• Copyedits assigned documents, applying correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style following AMA Manual of Style or various custom style guidelines as well as established medical writing internal checklists and best practices.
• Performs quality review of assigned documents to ensure accuracy.
• Contributes to the development of process improvement tools and the development or revision of internal policies and procedures affecting editorial work.
• Manages assigned projects according to medical writing standard operating procedures and client standards, on time and on budget.
• May compile medical writing deliverables.

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, 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.

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.

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. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard and smart, all in the name of getting therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world. A career with us means a role that actively contributes to delivering therapies to patients.

Syneos Health (Nasdaq: SYNH) is a leading integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. We support a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of this website, please contact us at: Email: One of our staff members will work with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.

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