Sr Principal / Principal Medical Writer (Publication Strategy/Planning) - East Coast Preferred [...]

Syneos Health, Inc.; Connecticut; Remote; USD 95,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical solutions provider is seeking a Senior Principal/Principal Medical Writer. This position focuses on managing complex medical writing deliverables, ensuring regulatory compliance, and mentoring junior writers. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in medical writing, strong regulatory knowledge, and exceptional interpersonal skills. The role offers a salary range of $95,000 - $175,700 and emphasizes career development within a collaborative culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive health benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in medical writing.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication skills to interact with clients and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead completion of complex medical writing deliverables.
• Manage and coordinate medical writing activities with various departments.
• Review documents for accuracy and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Medical writing expertise

Regulatory knowledge

Client relationship management

Statistical analysis

Education

Advanced degree in life sciences or related field

Tools

Statistical software

Job description

Sr Principal / Principal Medical Writer (Publication Strategy/Planning) - East Coast Preferred - Single Sponsor

Updated: October 1, 2025
Location: USA-CT-Remote

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

Leads the clear and accurate completion of complex medical writing deliverables, ensuring scientific information is presented clearly and accurately. Manages medical writing activities associated with individual studies, defining document strategy and 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 clinical study protocols and clinical study protocol amendments; clinical study reports; patient narratives; annual reports; investigator brochures; informed consents; annual reports; plain language summaries; periodic safety update reports, clinical development plans; IND submissions; integrated summary reports; NDA and eCTD submissions; journal manuscripts; and abstracts, posters, and presentations for scientific meetings.

Adheres to established regulatory standards, including, but not limited to, ICH E3 guidelines, as well as company standard operating procedures, client standards, and company and/or client approved-templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides, when completing medical writing projects, on time and on budget.

Advises clients and study teams on data presentation and production strategies to ensure that client objectives/expectations are met and quality standards are maintained.

Leads team document reviews and reviews documents for technical issues. Coordinates quality and editorial reviews and ensures source documentation is managed appropriately.

Serves as expert peer reviewer for internal team, providing review comments to give maximum clarity of meaning, accuracy, and relevance, and to ensure that client objectives are met and overall quality standards are maintained.

Reviews statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, and for grammar, format, and consistency. Provides feedback to further define statistical output required and document needs.

Interacts and builds good working relationships with clients, department head, and team members in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs, as necessary, to produce writing deliverables. Works with staff across company to advance company priorities.

Performs online clinical literature searches and complies with copyright requirements.

Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues, escalating as appropriate. Serves as a key technical SME and contributes to development of internal materials and presentations on needed topics. Contributes to changes to internal process, standard practices, and capabilities.

Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex documents.

Develops deep expertise on key topics in the industry and the regulatory requirements and guidelines that affect medical writing. Engages externally with industry groups on industry initiatives.

Aware of budget specifications for assigned projects, communicating status and changes to medical writing leadership. Contributes to bid projections.

Communicates status and changes to medical writing leadership; negotiates timelines and assigned deliverables.

Represents the medical writing department on clinical study teams, at conferences, meetings, and for presentations to the client regarding writing projects.

Completes required administrative tasks within the specified timeframes.

Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).

What We Offer

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.

Salary Range: $95,000.00 - $175,700.00

Equal Employment Opportunity

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, please contact us at: Email: [e-mail]