Sr Medical Editor (Regulatory)

Syneos Health, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in biopharmaceutical solutions is seeking a skilled Medical Writer to join their dynamic team. This role focuses on ensuring the accuracy and quality of medical documents while adhering to regulatory standards. You'll lead complex projects, mentor junior writers, and contribute to process improvements in a collaborative environment. The company values diversity and fosters a culture where everyone can thrive. If you have a passion for precision and a desire to make a difference in the healthcare landscape, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive management

Technical training

Peer recognition programs

Total rewards program

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences or English/journalism preferred.
• Significant experience in publishing and copyediting required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure documents meet regulatory requirements and guidelines.
• Lead medical writing projects and mentor junior staff.
• Copyedit documents for grammar and style accuracy.

Skills

Copyediting

Data Integrity Review

Project Management

Communication Skills

Attention to Detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences

Degree in English/Journalism

Tools

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft Office Suite

ISIToolbox

Job description

Updated: April 10, 2025
Location: United Kingdom-Europe - GBR-Home-Based, United Kingdom
Job ID:25002744-GBR975

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

1. Maintains familiarity with FDA, EU, and other relevant guidelines and industry standards to ensure that documents meet or exceed sponsor and regulatory requirements and guidance.
2. Represents the editorial group in Medical Writing, on study teams, and in cross-departmental project teams as needed.
3. Monitors timelines and budgets for assigned projects and updates the Lead Medical Writer, Project Manager, and/or direct supervisor (as appropriate) if deliverables are at risk.
4. 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 data integrity review, compilation, publishing, and editorial standards. Provides training to members of the global Medical Writing team in aspects relative to their roles.
5. Project lead for deliverables of assigned complex and/or large medical writing projects, including but not limited to scheduling and leading internal project-specific team meetings, organizing project-specific requirements, and ensuring that all information is distributed to the editorial team and implemented within the deliverable.
6. 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 document editorial process.
7. Copyedits assigned documents, applying correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style following American Medical Association (AMA) or various custom style guidelines as well as established medical writing internal checklists and best practices.
8. Performs data integrity review of assigned documents to ensure accuracy.
9. Contributes to the development of process improvement tools and the development or revision of internal policies and procedures affecting editorial work.
10. Manages assigned projects according to medical writing standard operating procedures and client standards, on time and on budget.
11. May compile and publish medical writing deliverables.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred) in the life sciences, clinical sciences, or English/journalism; or copyediting, data integrity review, and/or relevant publishing experience.
• Significant relevant publishing experience using Adobe Acrobat or other appropriate markup language preferred; ISIToolbox experience preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Excellent attention to detail, including strong copyediting, data integrity review, accuracy, problem solving, organizational, interpersonal, presentation, project management, and team-oriented skills.
• Excellent grammatical and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Extensive familiarity with the AMA style guide strongly preferred.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision on multiple assignments with set deadlines.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team and keep others informed of the progress and status of projects.
• Adaptable to changes in work duties, responsibilities, and requirements.
• Knowledge of FDA and EU requirements, ICH regulations and ISO standards as applicable to regulatory documents preferred.

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.