Updated: YesterdayLocation: London, LND, United KingdomJob ID:25108596-OTHLOC-3526-2DR
Medical Writer II – Publications
Syneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity and accelerate progress. Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
Job 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 clinical study protocols and protocol amendments; clinical study reports; patient narratives; annual reports; investigator brochures; informed consents; 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 ICH E3 guidelines, company standard operating procedures, client standards, and approved templates, authorship requirements, and style and formatting guides, completing projects on time and on budget.
- Coordinates quality and editorial reviews, ensures source documentation is managed appropriately, leads team document reviews, and performs reviews as needed.
- Acts as peer reviewer for internal team to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format.
- Reviews statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, grammar, format, and consistency, providing feedback to define required statistical output and document needs.
- Interacts and builds good working relations with clients, department heads, and peers in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs to produce writing deliverables.
- Performs online clinical literature searches and complies with copyright requirements.
- Identifies and proposes solutions to resolve issues, escalating as appropriate, provides technical support, training, and consultation to department and other company staff, and may contribute to development of internal materials and process improvements.
- Mentors and leads less experienced medical writers on complex projects, as necessary.
- Develops deep expertise on key industry topics and regulatory requirements and guidelines that affect medical writing.
- Awareness 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 specified timeframes.
- Performs other work-related duties as assigned.
- Minimal travel may be required (less than 25%).
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in science, technical, or medical writing.
- Experience working in the biopharmaceutical, device, or contract research organization industry.
- Strong understanding of FDA and ICH regulations, other regulatory guidelines, and/or good publication practices.
- Experience writing relevant document types required.
- Extensive knowledge of English grammar and ability to communicate clearly; strong familiarity with AMA Manual of Style.
Benefits
- Company car or car allowance
- Health benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision
- Company match 401k
- Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance
- Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time
Eligibility for paid sick time may vary by state. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal requirements.
Salary Range
$70,100.00 – $145,000.00
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.
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.
Summary
Roles within the Medical Writing job family are responsible for writing and editing manuscripts and other medical communications on clinical studies and/or scientific reports including special summaries from raw data for submission to regulatory agencies or for in-company use, monographs, comprehensive reviews, scientific exhibits, and other projects requiring skill in medical communication such as screening, analyzing, and summarizing additional data from other sources as needed. Conducts systematic literature searches and reviews. Prepares literature for new products and revises existing medical communication. Reviews and analyzes statistical outputs to prepare results-based documents such as clinical study reports and development safety update reports. Supports engagement and interaction with regulatory agencies through preparation of briefing books and response documents to health authority questions.
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