Safety Physician

Syneos Health, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Safety Physician in Yerawada, India, to perform medical review of adverse events for investigational and marketed products. You will work with SPVG colleagues and ensure regulatory compliance while staying current with clinical and drug development information.

The role involves mentoring safety staff, contributing to safety reports, and maintaining expertise through ongoing education in a dynamic global environment.

Qualifications

• Medical knowledge applicable to safety review and pharmacovigilance.
• Ability to interpret safety data and apply regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Performs medical review of adverse events reported for investigational and marketed products.
• Maintains familiarity with MedDRA, WHO-DRL, and safety databases such as ARGUS.
• Works closely with Safety and Pharmacovigilance (SPVG) colleagues to ensure proper medical interpretation and consistency in AE case assessment.
• Ensures regulatory and SOP compliance for evaluation, reporting, and surveillance of clinical and post-marketing safety information.
• Identifies, communicates and manages potential safety issues.
• Interacts with client’s safety/medical personnel as appropriate.
• Stays updated on clinical and drug development information relevant to contracted programs.
• Provides medical review for aggregate safety reports (e.g., PSURs, PADERs).
• Maintains medical and pharmacovigilance expertise through continuing education.
• Mentors and trains other internal safety staff including case processing staff.
• Complies with Corporate and Departmental policies and operating guidelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Skills

Medical review

Pharmacovigilance

MedDRA

ARGUS safety

Tools

MedDRA

ARGUS

Job description

Updated: August 29, 2026
Location: Yerawada, India
Job ID:25111697

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

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 deliver - for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues 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 building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

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.

Job Responsibilities

• Performs medical review of adverse events reported for investigational and marketed products
• Maintains familiarity with MedDRA, WHO-DRL, and safety databases such as ARGUS.
• Works closely with Safety and Pharmacovigilance (SPVG) colleagues to ensure appropriate medical interpretation and consistency are applied to adverse event case assessment
• Ensures regulatory and SOP compliance with respect to evaluation, reporting and surveillance of clinical and post-marking safety information
• Identifies, communicates and effectively manages potential safety issues
• Interacts with client’s safety/medical personnel as appropriate
• Stays abreast of clinical and drug development information relevant to contracted programs
• Provides medical review and interpretation for aggregate safety reports (e.g. annual safety reports, PSURs, PADERs)
• Maintains medical and pharmacovigilance expertise through appropriate internal or external continued medical education
• Assists as a mentor and trainer for other internal safety staff including case processing staff
• Responsible for performing activities that are in compliance with applicable Corporate and D Departmental Policies, Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions and any project specific Operating Guidelines
• Performing other duties as assigned by management.

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.

Summary

The position is responsible for performing medical review of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs), conducting medical assessment of all safety related data and ensuring medical accuracy of the ICSR narrative, coding and appropriate medical interpretation of all cases.

Description

Safety Physician

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

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 deliver - for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues 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 building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - Driven to Deliver - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

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.

Job Responsibilities

• Performs medical review of adverse events reported for investigational and marketed products
• Maintains familiarity with MedDRA, WHO-DRL, and safety databases such as ARGUS.
• Works closely with Safety and Pharmacovigilance (SPVG) colleagues to ensure appropriate medical interpretation and consistency are applied to adverse event case assessment
• Ensures regulatory and SOP compliance with respect to evaluation, reporting and surveillance of clinical and post-marking safety information
• Identifies, communicates and effectively manages potential safety issues
• Interacts with client’s safety/medical personnel as appropriate
• Stays abreast of clinical and drug development information relevant to contracted programs
• Provides medical review and interpretation for aggregate safety reports (e.g. annual safety reports, PSURs, PADERs)
• Maintains medical and pharmacovigilance expertise through appropriate internal or external continued medical education
• Assists as a mentor and trainer for other internal safety staff including case processing staff
• Responsible for performing activities that are in compliance with applicable Corporate and D Departmental Policies, Standard Operating Procedures, Work Instructions and any project specific Operating Guidelines
• Performing other duties as assigned by management.

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.

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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.

Summary

The position is responsible for performing medical review of Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSRs), conducting medical assessement of all safety related data and ensuring medical accuracy of the ICSR narrative, coding and appropriate medical interpretation of all cases.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your pastexperience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we take intoconsideration transferrable skills from previous roles. 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 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 integrated biopharmaceutical solutionsorganization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical,medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern marketrealities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and applyadvanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of importanttherapies to patients. We support a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.

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