[Hiring] Director, Compensation Infrastructure & Analytics @Syneos Health

Role Description

Owns the Global Salary Structure (GSS) — range governance, annual update cycle, zone/geo structure design, and approval process across all markets.

• Leads market pricing strategy and Payfactors alignment, ensuring parity and competitiveness across all areas of the business. Analyzes data for market trends.
• Oversees job architecture and job catalog consistency — career framework development, global job matching, grade alignment, and job code governance.
• Establishes process governance: Delegation of Authority (DOA), promotion criteria, SOPs, and templates to reduce manual work and process variation.

Conducts extensive pay equity analyses using Syndio to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations, proactively identifying and addressing pay gaps organization-wide.

• Drives EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance — country documentation, reporting readiness, comparator methodology, and Legal liaison.
• Supports country-specific regulatory compliance including India Labour Code compensation restructuring and DOA/policy governance.

Demonstrates a passion for continuous learning and curiosity around emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence, proactively exploring how AI tools and insights might be integrated into total rewards strategies.

• Oversees the development and maintenance of sophisticated compensation models to assist in budgeting and planning cycles.
• Creates models that show the impact of various pay scenarios and how they affect different parts of the organization.
• Delivers compensation analytics for CEO, Board, and CHRO — comp ratios, workforce cost analysis, scenario modeling (merit, bonus, FLC), dashboards, and rewards statements.
• Prepares regular and ad hoc compensation analyses, dashboards, and reports for senior leadership, tailored to the needs of diverse Business Units and Functions.
• Works with the reporting team to ensure reports meet compensation needs for both standard and ad hoc reporting across all functions.

Performs line management responsibilities, including professional development, performance appraisals, and employee counseling for analyst staff.

• Assigns project work and reviews workload for all direct reports.
• Manages staff by establishing goals to increase knowledge and skill levels and by delegating tasks commensurate with skill level.
• Directly manages a team of 2–4 analysts globally, with potential dotted-line oversight of additional analysts supporting cross-functional work.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree, preferably in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.
• Ten (10) years of related experience in global compensation operations, analytics, or systems with two (2) years management experience.
• Strong experience with market pricing tools (Payfactors, Mercer, Radford, or equivalent) and salary structure design.
• Demonstrated ability to lead pay equity analysis and regulatory compliance programs.
• Syndio or similar pay equity platform experience (preferred).
• Experience in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, or CRO industry (preferred).
• Experience managing globally distributed teams, including offshore analyst teams (preferred).
• Experience supporting PE-backed or IPO-readiness environments (preferred).
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Strong MS Office skills with advanced Excel skills, preferably Power BI skills.
• Ability to identify creative solutions and implement with minimal direction.
• Professionalism and effective ability to manage confidential information.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Benefits

• 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.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with.

Company Description

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.