Syneos Health, Inc.
Principal Medical Writer
Syneos Health, Inc., Morrisville, North Carolina, United States, 27560
Principal Medical Writer - Narrative Documents
Updated:
January 7, 2026 Location:
Morrisville, NC, United States Job ID: 25104629-OTHLOC-1500-2DNJ-2DR
Overview 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.
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.
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.
Qualifications
Experience leading complex medical writing projects and coordinating cross-department activities with minimal supervision.
Knowledge of regulatory standards (ICH E3) and SOPs, client standards, and style and formatting guides.
Ability to mentor and lead writers; serve as SME on complex documents.
Strong written and verbal communication and ability to interact with clients and cross-functional teams.
Experience with literature searches and copyright compliance.
Budget awareness and ability to contribute to bid projections.
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. 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
Principal medical writer on clinical study or regulatory project teams. Provides scientific writing, regulatory guidance, and technical expertise in the writing, production, and review of high-quality complex regulatory and other scientific/clinical documents, ensuring that clinical data is presented in documents in compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines. May guide the work of junior writers. Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere.
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Updated:
January 7, 2026 Location:
Morrisville, NC, United States Job ID: 25104629-OTHLOC-1500-2DNJ-2DR
Overview 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.
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.
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.
Qualifications
Experience leading complex medical writing projects and coordinating cross-department activities with minimal supervision.
Knowledge of regulatory standards (ICH E3) and SOPs, client standards, and style and formatting guides.
Ability to mentor and lead writers; serve as SME on complex documents.
Strong written and verbal communication and ability to interact with clients and cross-functional teams.
Experience with literature searches and copyright compliance.
Budget awareness and ability to contribute to bid projections.
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. 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
Principal medical writer on clinical study or regulatory project teams. Provides scientific writing, regulatory guidance, and technical expertise in the writing, production, and review of high-quality complex regulatory and other scientific/clinical documents, ensuring that clinical data is presented in documents in compliance with applicable regulatory guidelines. May guide the work of junior writers. Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere.
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