Medical Writer II (MLR Reviewer)

Medical Writer II (MLR Reviewer)

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, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
 
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 deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
 
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Mentors less experienced medical writers on projects, as necessary.
• Performs E2E process related scientific writing that includes but not limited to manage workflow in PubConnect, create publication plan, author approvals, pre-submission queries, submission activities etc.
• Veeva Vault document management - Creates placeholders, upload versions, reference linking, anchoring and linking, monitors the workflows/task completion.
• Reviews documents intended for Veeva submission and ensures they are fully MLR‑ready by proactively identifying and highlighting content changes needed per standards and guidelines, verifying claims against referenced sources, and streamlining the MLR review process to support first‑round approval.
• Compiles, writes, and edits medical writing deliverables, and serves as a medical writer within and across departments with minimal supervision.
• Develops or supports a variety of documents that include but not limited to:

• Clinical journal manuscripts, clinical journal abstracts, posters, and oral presentations.

• Reviews statistical analysis plans and table/figure/listing specifications for appropriate content, and for grammar, format, and consistency.
• Interacts with department head and staff members in data management, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and medical affairs as necessary to produce writing deliverables.
• Serves as peer reviewer on internal review team. Addresses team comments accurately to ensure document scientific content, clarity, overall consistency, and proper format.

• Adheres to established regulatory standards, including but not limited to congress/journal guidelines, as well as Company Standard Operating Procedures, client standards, and Company and/or client approved templates when completing medical writing projects, on-time and on-budget.

Performs on-line clinical literature searches, as applicable

• Familiarity with publication planning software e.g. Datavision and PubConnect (VeevaVault PromoMats or Medcomms).
• Continues professional development to keep pace with regulatory guidance and client expectations in medical writing that affect medical writing.
• Stays aware of budget specifications for assigned projects, working within the budgeted hours and communicating changes to medical writing leadership.
• Completes required administrated tasks within the specified timeframes.
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

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

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

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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.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  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.