Sr Medical Scientist - Infectious Disease - HIV

Sr Medical Scientist - Infectious Disease - HIV

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

• Works with Medical Director to develop medical plans (Medical Management Plan, Medical Data Review Plan, and Eligibility Review Plan). Engages with outside experts/consultants/advisors to coordinate the acquisition of necessary medical/scientific input to prepare the respective medical plans.

• Performs regular and ad-hoc medical review of data listings and data visualization as needed; analyzes the data to identify risks and data patterns/trends and supports documentation of medical reviews. Pro-actively identifies and resolves medical data review issues as they arise. Review of SAE reports.

• Authors medical data queries and reviews query responses, approves query closure in association with Medical Director.

. Clinical point of contact for scientific issues/questions for internal and external stakeholders (e.g., IRB, sites)

•    Responsible for trial design and endpoint development in collaboration with Medical Director
•    Sets up/supports SAC, DMC, adjudication committees
•    Protocols/amendments – collaborates with medical writer, participates in governance committee review
•    Authors protocol clarification letters
•    Contributor to study specific documents (e.g., SMP)
•    Reviews/updates informed consent
•    Provides scientific input to PM for data management activities (e.g., EDC, DRP, CRFs)
•    Monitors data issues requiring clinical input
•    Monitors central lab reports and other external data for safety and critical values
•    Prepares scientific slides, attends and presents protocol information at Investigator Meeting
•    Reviews specifications, initiates allocation request form and approval schedule in allocation schedule generation system
•    Coordinates planning of lab, bio specimens and imaging specifications
•    May co-author newsletters with PM
•    Participates in Database lock activities
•    Collaboratively plans CSRs and other deliverables with medical writing
•    Supports publications/presentations as needed
•    Reconciles and review all protocol deviation classifications and periodic reviews
•    Assesses and prepares protocol deviation list for CSR
•    Collaborates with medical writing to develop trial results communication for investigators
•    Provides scientific assessment for Operational Reviews
•    Supports PM, Stats, Medical Writing and other activities as needed to achieve study deliverables.
•    Provides clinical specifications to study team to support interactions with external vendors
•    May act as mentor to other CSs

• Collaborates with study team members including Clinical Operations, Data Management, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, and Project Management (set-up and/or lead meetings as appropriate) to identify risks related to data integrity and subject safety. Escalates ongoing and newly developed study concerns such as at-risk project deliverables and out of-scope tasks to the project leads in a timely manner.

• Adheres to all data privacy guidelines, International Committee on Harmonization (ICH), and Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), all enterprise policies, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and project plans. Adheres to customer policies and standard operating procedures, as required in project plans.

At  Syneos Health, 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. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.  Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Salary Range:

$79,800.00 - $139,600.00

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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.

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.

Summary

Partners with Medical Director to provide clinical and scientific input to early and late-stage clinical development programs with an emphasis on protocol-specific requirements and ensuring the scientific integrity and data quality of clinical trials by using scientific knowledge. Collaborates with Medical Director(s) and other team members on data reviews, and other Medical Management activities to ensure the successful execution and conduct of clinical trials.