Senior Medical Editor (QC and Regulatory Editing)

Syneos Health; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health, Inc. is seeking a Senior Medical Editor (QC and Regulatory Editing) to join its Clinical Solutions team in Hyderabad.

The role focuses on ensuring regulatory documents meet FDA and EU guidelines and leading editorial quality across medical writing projects. The successful candidate will provide training, mentorship, and ensure timely, accurate deliverables while adhering to internal policies and client standards.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of copyediting experience; pharmaceutical/medical device or CRO experience preferred.
• 4 Year/Bachelor’s degree in the life sciences, clinical sciences, or English/journalism; or relevant copyediting and/or quality review experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintains familiarity with FDA, EU, and other guidelines to ensure documents meet sponsor and regulatory requirements.
• Represents the editorial group in medical writing on study teams and cross-departmental project teams.
• Monitors timelines and budgets for assigned projects and updates supervisors if deliverables are at risk.
• Provides training to medical editing staff and mentors other editors.
• Acts as project lead for complex medical writing deliverables, organizing meetings and ensuring information is distributed to the team.
• Performs quality reviews and ensures accuracy of documents.
• Contributes to development of process improvements and updates SOPs and client standards.
• May compile medical writing deliverables.

Skills

Copyediting

Quality review

Editorial standards

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelors in life sciences/English/journalism

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Senior Medical Editor (QC and Regulatory Editing)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.Job ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities:• 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 (as appropriate) 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, but not limited to, scheduling and leading internal project-specific team meetings, organizing project-specific requirements, and ensuring all information is distributed to the editorialteam 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.Education Requirements:4 Year/Bachelor’s degree (preferred) in the life sciences, clinical sciences, or English/journalism; or relevant copyediting and/or quality review experience.Additional Qualifications:• 3-5 years of copyediting experience; pharmaceutical/medical device or contract research organization experience preferred.• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).• Excellent attention to detail, including strong copyediting, quality review, accuracy, problem solving, organizational, interpersonal, presentation, project management, and team-oriented skills.• Knowledge of FDA and EU requirements, ICH regulations, and ISO standards as applicable to regulatory documents required.Get to know Syneos HealthOver 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.comAdditional InformationTasks, 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.