Senior Medical Writer & Editorial Lead

Syneos Health/ inVentiv Health Commercial LLC; California (MO); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Health benefits

401k match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Bonus eligibility

Flexible PTO & sick time

Job summary

Syneos Health / inVentiv Health Commercial LLC is seeking a senior Medical Writer to lead clear, accurate writing deliverables and coordinate activities across departments with minimal supervision. You will produce manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and presentations for scientific meetings, ensuring compliance with ICH E3, SOPs, templates, and authorship guidelines.

The role includes mentoring junior writers, managing source documentation, supporting client communications, and helping improve

Responsibilities

• Leads the clear and accurate completion of medical writing deliverables, ensuring scientific information is presented clearly and accurately.
• Manages medical writing activities associated with individual studies, coordinating medical writing activities within and across departments with minimal supervision.
• Leads the resolution of comments from the client.
• Completes a variety of documents that may include journal manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and presentations for scientific meetings.
• Adheres to established regulatory standards, including but not limited to ICH E3 guidelines, as well as company SOPs, client standards, and approved templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides, when completing medical writing projects on time and on budget.
• Coordinates quality and editorial reviews. Ensures source documentation is managed appropriately. Leads team document reviews, and reviews documents as needed.
• Acts as peer reviewer for internal team to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format.
• Interacts and builds good working relations with clients, department head, and peers in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs, as necessary, to produce writing deliverables.
• Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues, escalating as appropriate. Provides technical support, training, and consultation to department and other company staff. May contribute to development of internal materials and presentations or changes to internal process, standard practices, and capabilities.
• Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex projects, as necessary.
• Develops deep expertise on key topics in the industry and the regulatory requirements and guidelines that affect medical writing.
• Aware of budget specifications for assigned projects, working within the budgeted hours and communicating status and changes to medical writing leadership.
• Completes required administrative tasks within the specified timeframes.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
• Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).
• Benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, health benefits (medical, dental and vision), company match 401k, eligibility to participate in an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work.

Job description

Syneos Health / inVentiv Health Commercial LLC is seeking a senior Medical Writer to lead clear, accurate writing deliverables and coordinate activities across departments with minimal supervision. You will produce manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and presentations for scientific meetings, ensuring compliance with ICH E3, SOPs, templates, and authorship guidelines.

The role includes mentoring junior writers, managing source documentation, supporting client communications, and helping improve