[Hiring] Medical Strategist @Syneos Health

Role Description

The Medical Strategist is responsible for delivering medical and scientific contributions across clinical development programs and strategic partnerships. This role is pivotal in ensuring the medical integrity, scientific rigor, and strategic alignment of our proposals, protocols, and development plans. This role operates at a program and opportunity level, translating scientific strategy into actionable clinical plans, including protocol development, indication positioning, and feasibility assessments. The Medical Strategist plays a hands-on role in supporting business development, contributing directly to RFP responses, bid defenses, and client solutions. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this role ensures that clinical strategies are operationally viable, scientifically sound, and aligned with client needs, with a strong focus on execution and delivery.

Qualifications

• Medical degree (MD, DO, or equivalent); additional training (PhD, MPH, MBA) is advantageous.
• 10–15 years of relevant experience in clinical research, with at least 5 years in a CRO or client-facing strategic role.
• Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP guidelines, clinical trial design, and global regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in therapeutic strategy, protocol development, and medical review.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with business development teams and present to clients.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex scientific information for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to understand customer needs, have difficult conversations with internal and external stakeholders and customers, negotiate solutions and understand impacts on the overall offering.
• Advanced business acumen, innovative and strategic thinking alongside confidence with financial considerations, excellent negotiation and influencing skills, and comfort working in both sales and operational environments.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential. Travel up to 60% may be required.

Requirements

• Serve as the medical lead in multidisciplinary teams responding to RFPs, contributing to study design, indication strategy, and operational feasibility assessments.
• Provide therapeutic and medical insight during bid defense meetings and client consultations.
• Collaborate with business development and operational teams to ensure that proposed solutions align with client goals, budgets, and timelines.
• Maintain awareness and share insights on industry pipeline and scientific and business landscape.
• Lead the development of clinical trial protocols, medical monitoring plans, and other key deliverables.
• Ensure the scientific accuracy and regulatory compliance of medical content and clinical strategies.
• Provide expert input into therapeutic feasibility analyses, indication assessments, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Act as a key point of contact for medical and strategic questions throughout the proposal and trial lifecycle.
• Build strong working relationships with clients, acting as a trusted advisor and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Collaborate closely with Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Biostatistics, and Pharmacovigilance teams.
• Bring deep subject matter expertise in at least one therapeutic area (e.g., Oncology, Rare Diseases, CNS, Infectious Diseases).
• Stay abreast of medical and regulatory developments that impact clinical trial design and execution.
• Champion the integration of innovative technologies and methodologies (e.g., decentralized trials, adaptive design, digital biomarkers).
• Contribute to white papers, conference presentations, and publications representing the CRO’s thought leadership.

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.