Principal/Sr Medical Editor - Regulatory Documents - Copy Editing + QC - NA/Canada Remote Based

1001 Syneos Health, LLC; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Commission/bonus eligibility

Paid time off

Sick time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Principal/Senior Medical Editor for Regulatory Documents with copy editing and QC responsibilities. This remote-based NA/Canada role supports FDA/EU guidelines and complex medical writing projects across the globe.

You will lead editorial processes, ensure on-time delivery, mentor staff, and collaborate with medical writers and study teams to uphold high editorial standards.

Qualifications

• Maintains familiarity with FDA, EU, and other relevant guidelines and standards to ensure documents meet regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• 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 leadership if deliverables are at risk.
• Provides training and mentorship to medical editing staff and guides others on quality review and editorial standards.
• Serves as project lead for complex medical writing deliverables, coordinating meetings and information distribution.
• Copyedits assigned documents following AMA style and internal guidelines; performs quality reviews for accuracy.

Job description

Principal/Sr Medical Editor - Regulatory Documents - Copy Editing + QC - NA/Canada Remote Based

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

• 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 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.

AtSyneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance.

Benefits

• 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: $62,000.00 - $108,600.00 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.

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.

Discover what our Syneos Health colleagues already know: work here matters everywhere. Work alongside the brightest minds in the biopharmaceutical industry taking down walls and removing barriers to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We are strategic thinkers who actively seek different perspectives, whether across offices or across oceans. Because we solve some of the toughest challenges facing the most prestigious healthcare companies today, you'll gain exposure and be supported with comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing.

The diversification and breadth of Syneos Health creates a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities.

We’re a growing, global company dedicated to advancing our talent past their initial role.

We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career in which you’re guaranteed to: Partner with the most diverse team of experts in the industry. From the top down, our people are inspiring. Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it. Work in specialized Syneos Health teams that are therapeutically or functionally aligned for expert collaboration. We assemble clinical teams where everyone, from CRAs to senior management, is skilled in the same therapeutic area or customer teams. With this structure, everyone on your team speaks the same language and can deliver unique insights into the therapeutic environment and patient population. We are partners with purpose. We integrate seamlessly with our customers and do what’s best for their success. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insights and endless energy that accelerates the impact of life changing therapies worldwide.