Senior Medical Director - Psychiatrist - Remote Based

Syneos Health, Inc.
Alabama

Senior Medical Director - Psychiatrist - Remote Based

Updated: Yesterday

Location: USA-AL-Remote

Job ID: 25102573

Description

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.

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.

Job Responsibilities

  • Provides medical oversight of assigned clinical studies in the duty as a medical monitor. Often serves as primary medical contact for customers for assigned clinical studies.
  • Provides medical input and oversight in support of the Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance department.
  • Responsible for protocol design and development, upon request. Provides input into protocol amendments.
  • Develops and delivers project‑specific and therapeutic training to project team members and clinical site staff; provides training to customer staff as needed.
  • Provides medical and therapeutic input to Study Start Up, Feasibility, and Subject Identification efforts. This activity includes, but is not limited to, review of Informed Consent Templates and Subject‑Facing Materials, and input into site feasibility evaluations.
  • Provides medical input into data collection tools, monitoring plans, and review and analysis plans.
  • Proposes oversight to assigned Medical Scientist staff and Medical Director colleagues to review clinical data. Presents identified trends and issues, and mitigation strategies, to customers and project team members to minimize risks to subject safety or integrity of study data.
  • Provides after‑hours coverage for clinical studies.
  • Adheres to all enterprise policies, work instructions, standard operating procedures, and project plans. Adheres to customer policies and standard operating procedures, as required in project plans.
  • Maintains in‑depth knowledge of FDA and worldwide drug development regulations and national and ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines.
  • Leads medical responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Bid Defense Meetings (BDMs). May support Requests for Information (RFIs).
  • Contributes to the development of product/clinical development plans, and collaborates with customer and internal colleagues regarding other reports, applications, and regulatory submissions. Locates and engages external experts/consultants/advisors as necessary.
  • Represents the Company at scientific and industry meetings. May publish scientific or industry‑related articles in industry journals, as requested.
  • Mentors staff to ensure an appropriate level of understanding regarding sound treatment and research principles of specific therapeutic area. Ensures project teams consistently operate in compliance with such principles.
  • Assumes line management duties as needed.

Job Summary

Provides medical oversight of assigned clinical studies. Interacts with senior management, customers, and project teams to ensure subject safety and scientific integrity of clinical studies. Provides therapeutic area medical input and consultation to internal colleagues and customers. Performs the duties of Medical Monitor. Serves as a mentor, consultant, and training guide to Business Unit (BU) staff and project colleagues. May be assigned to provide medical oversight to clinical studies or other types of projects such as Medical Monitoring‑only projects or Commercial or Consulting Projects. Is often assigned the role of Functional Lead on assigned clinical studies. Supervises and manages other Medical Directors, as required.

Benefits

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.

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.

Contact

Phone: 919 876 9300
Fax: 919 876 9360
Toll‑Free: 866 462 7373

Equal Opportunity Employer

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not be discriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of this website, please contact us at: Email: [email protected] One of our staff members will work with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.

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Posted 2026-01-13

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