Senior Medical Editor – FSP

Syneos Health

Senior Medical Editor ensuring accuracy in medical documents while collaborating with study teams. Leverage FDA and EU guidelines to manage editorial projects effectively.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in medical writing and editing, ensuring compliance with FDA and EU guidelines while managing complex projects on time and within budget. Proficient in training and mentoring medical writing teams, providing quality reviews, and applying editorial standards.

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FDA Guidelines FamiliarityEU Guidelines FamiliarityMedical Writing Project ManagementQuality Review ExpertiseAMA Manual of Style Proficiency

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Hard Skills

Medical WritingCopyeditingQuality ReviewProject ManagementTechnical Support

Soft Skills

MentoringTrainingCollaborationCommunication

Tools & Technologies

Medical Writing Standard Operating ProceduresInternal ChecklistsProcess Improvement Tools

Industry Keywords

Regulatory RequirementsEditorial StandardsCross-Departmental CollaborationProject-Specific Team Meetings

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintains strong familiarity with FDA, EU, and other relevant guidelines and industry standards to ensure that documents meet or exceed sponsor and regulatory requirements and guidance.
Represents the editorial group in medical writing, on study teams, and in cross-departmental project teams as needed.
Monitors timelines and budgets for assigned projects and updates the lead medical writer, project manager, and/or direct supervisor (as appropriate) if deliverables are at risk.
Provides technical support and expertise as appropriate.
Conducts training of medical editing staff and functions as a mentor.
Advises medical writers, medical editors, and study teams on quality review, compilation, and editorial standards.
Provides training to members of the global medical writing team in aspects relative to their roles.
Serves as project lead for deliverables of assigned complex and/or large medical writing projects, including, but not limited to, scheduling and leading internal project-specific team meetings, organizing project-specific requirements, and ensuring all information is distributed to the editorial team and implemented within the deliverable.
Serves as a member of the medical writing team for projects with medical writing deliverables.
Provides feedback to the lead medical writer on progress of editorial process.
Copyedits assigned documents, applying correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style following AMA Manual of Style or various custom style guidelines as well as established medical writing internal checklists and best practices.
Performs quality review of assigned documents to ensure accuracy.
Contributes to the development of process improvement tools and the development or revision of internal policies and procedures affecting editorial work.
Manages assigned projects according to medical writing standard operating procedures and client standards, on time and on budget.
May compile medical writing deliverables.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Maintains strong familiarity with FDA, EU, and other relevant guidelines and industry standards to ensure that documents meet or exceed sponsor and regulatory requirements and guidance.
Represents the editorial group in medical writing, on study teams, and in cross-departmental project teams as needed.
Monitors timelines and budgets for assigned projects and updates the lead medical writer, project manager, and/or direct supervisor (as appropriate) if deliverables are at risk.
Provides technical support and expertise as appropriate.
Conducts training of medical editing staff and functions as a mentor.
Advises medical writers, medical editors, and study teams on quality review, compilation, and editorial standards.
Provides training to members of the global medical writing team in aspects relative to their roles.
Serves as project lead for deliverables of assigned complex and/or large medical writing projects, including, but not limited to, scheduling and leading internal project-specific team meetings, organizing project-specific requirements, and ensuring all information is distributed to the editorial team and implemented within the deliverable.
Serves as a member of the medical writing team for projects with medical writing deliverables.
Provides feedback to the lead medical writer on progress of editorial process.
Copyedits assigned documents, applying correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style following AMA Manual of Style or various custom style guidelines as well as established medical writing internal checklists and best practices.
Performs quality review of assigned documents to ensure accuracy.
Contributes to the development of process improvement tools and the development or revision of internal policies and procedures affecting editorial work.
Manages assigned projects according to medical writing standard operating procedures and client standards, on time and on budget.
May compile medical writing deliverables.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.