Senior Medical Editor - Lead Copy Editing & QC (Home-Based)

3212 Syneos Health Clinical Spain, S.L.U.; United States; Remote; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Senior Medical Editor to lead copy editing and QC activities within regulatory medical writing teams. This home-based role supports FDA and EU guidelines, coordinating with study teams and cross-functional colleagues to ensure timely, compliant deliverables.

The role emphasizes mentoring staff, leading complex projects, and ensuring high editorial quality in line with AMA style and company SOPs.

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.
• 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.

Job description

Syneos Health is seeking a Senior Medical Editor to lead copy editing and QC activities within regulatory medical writing teams. This home-based role supports FDA and EU guidelines, coordinating with study teams and cross-functional colleagues to ensure timely, compliant deliverables.

The role emphasizes mentoring staff, leading complex projects, and ensuring high editorial quality in line with AMA style and company SOPs.