Principal Publication Strategist, Medical Writing

Principal Publication Strategist, Medical Writing

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.

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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

Scientific Disclosure & Publication Strategy Development

• Lead the development, maintenance, and evolution of integrated publication plans and scientific disclosure strategies across the product lifecycle.
• Develop and oversee publication plans that define strategic objectives, key scientific messages, target audiences, deliverable types, and communication channels.
• Provide strategic direction on publication planning, timing, sequencing, and prioritization to maximize scientific impact and alignment with overall asset and evidence strategy.
• Identify gaps, risks, and emerging opportunities within publication plans and broader scientific disclosure activities and proactively recommend strategic solutions.
• Ensure publication plans and disclosure strategies are forward‑looking, data‑driven, compliant, and adaptable to evolving evidence and external factors.

Strategic Advisory & Influence

• Serve as a primary strategic advisor to sponsor Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, and related cross‑functional teams on scientific disclosure and publication planning.
• Act as a thought partner to sponsor leadership, providing guidance that informs decision‑making rather than facilitating discussions or documenting outcomes.
• Confidently present, defend, and refine publication plans and disclosure strategies with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Integrate diverse and sometimes conflicting inputs into a cohesive, compliant, and actionable publication plans that aligns with sponsor objectives.
• Influence cross‑functional decision‑making across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory, HEOR, and Commercial functions, as appropriate.

Scientific, Competitive & Industry Expertise

• Maintain deep expertise in publication standards and industry guidance, including Good Publication Practice (GPP), ICMJE requirements, authorship standards, and transparency obligations.
• Monitor competitor disclosure and publication activity, journal trends, and congress landscapes within assigned therapeutic areas.
• Assess external scientific and competitive environments to inform publication planning and disclosure strategy recommendations.
• Ensure all publication plans and strategies uphold scientific integrity, ethical principles, and regulatory expectations.

Collaboration & Execution Oversight

• Partner closely with Syneos Health (and sponsor, if applicable) medical writers, publication managers, and external vendors to ensure execution of publication plans aligns with the approved strategy.
• Provide strategic oversight and advisory input during execution of publication plans, ensuring alignment with approved strategy.
• Review key deliverables (e.g., publication plans, strategic summaries, messaging frameworks) to ensure alignment with approved publication and disclosure strategies.
• Support issue resolution and strategic decision‑making during execution when challenges or changes arise.

Organizational & Client Contribution

• Serve as the primary strategic publication planning and scientific disclosure contact for the assigned sponsor relationship.
• Contribute publication planning and strategic expertise to additional sponsor engagements or internal Syneos Health initiatives as needed.
• Support business development efforts by providing publication planning and scientific disclosure strategy expertise for proposals and client discussions.
• Contribute to the advancement of Syneos Health’s scientific communications and publication planning capabilities through thought leadership and best practices.
• Act as a senior subject matter expert and internal resource for scientific disclosure strategy and publication planning.

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:

$114,000.00 - $210,900.00

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.

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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.

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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.

Summary

The Principal Publication Strategist is responsible for leading scientific disclosure and publication planning and strategy and serving as a trusted strategic advisor to sponsor teams. The role is accountable for shaping, defending, and influencing publication plans and disclosure strategy across assets, therapeutic areas, and phases of development, ensuring that scientific data are communicated in a timely, ethical, and strategically aligned manner. The Principal Publication Strategist partners with sponsor aligned and internal Syneos Health teams to provide strategic leadership across scientific disclosure and publication activities. The role includes responsibility for publication planning and extends beyond traditional plan development to encompass upstream scientific disclosure strategy, competitive landscape assessment, and advisory support to guide evidence generation, prioritization, and dissemination decisions across the product lifecycle. This role requires strong independent judgment and the ability to influence without authority. The Principal Publication Strategist acts as a strategic partner by challenging assumptions, integrating cross‑functional perspectives, and providing clear, defensible recommendations while ensuring compliance with applicable industry standards, ethical guidelines, and sponsor expectations.