[Hiring] Clinical Scientist - Clinical Surveillance & Training @Syneos Health

Role Description

Join our Clinical Surveillance & Training (CST) team as a Clinical Scientist, where you will play a critical role in ensuring endpoint quality, data integrity, and trial success across global clinical programs. This is a highly visible, impact-driven role working at the intersection of science and clinical operations.

• Lead Rater Training Excellence: Design and deliver scientifically grounded rater training programs to ensure consistent, high-quality endpoint assessment and reduce variability across sites.
• Drive Patient Eligibility Quality: Perform comprehensive eligibility reviews, providing a second level of scientific oversight to confirm appropriate patient selection and minimize protocol deviations and safety risks.
• Deliver Data-Driven Insights: Analyze clinical and endpoint data to identify trends, variability, and potential risks—translating findings into actionable insights that improve study execution.
• Shape Protocol Strategy: Partner with sponsors and study teams to review protocols and provide expert guidance on endpoint strategy, scale selection, and study design feasibility.
• Act as a Scientific Leader: Collaborate cross-functionally with clinical operations, medical, and sponsor teams to proactively identify risks and deliver solutions that protect study integrity.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level degree relevant to therapeutic area (e.g., for CNS: Clinical Psychology PhD or PsyD or Psychiatry MD).
• Moderate to extensive clinical experience with patients in relevant therapeutic areas.
• Knowledge of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric assessments, including patient reported outcome measures, inferential biostatistics, and medical terminology.
• Experience with clinical research or pharmaceutical industry.
• Excellent planning/organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade.
• Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting in professional settings.
• Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 20%).

Benefits

• 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.
• Committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.
• Continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with.