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

Syneos Health, Inc.; Illinois; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical solutions organization is seeking a Sr Principal / Principal Medical Writer. This position is responsible for leading complex medical writing projects, ensuring regulatory compliance, and coordinating document strategies across departments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in medical writing, a strong understanding of regulatory standards, and excellent coordination skills. This role offers a remote work opportunity with competitive benefits.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive management

Total rewards program

Qualifications

• Experience in leading complex medical writing deliverables.
• Expert in ICH E3 guidelines and regulatory standards.
• Strong coordination and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the completion of medical writing deliverables.
• Manage writing activities across departments.
• Ensure adherence to regulatory standards.

Skills

Medical writing

Regulatory standards knowledge

Data presentation

Document strategy coordination

Education

Relevant degree in life sciences or similar

Job description

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

Updated: October 1, 2025
Location: USA-IL-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.

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.

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.
• 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; and other documents.
• Adheres to established regulatory standards, including 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.
• Advises clients and study teams on data presentation and production strategies to ensure that client objectives/expectations are met and quality standards are maintained.

What We Offer

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.

EEO Statement

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.