[Hiring] Senior Advisor, Internal Clinical Excellence @Syneos Health

Role Description

Senior Advisor, Internal Clinical Excellence at Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. 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.

• Contribute to the development and refinement of internal best-practice documents, playbooks, and training materials on general clinical development and operational excellence (e.g., risk identification checklists, escalation templates, generic governance models).
• Contribute to the development of Syneos technology, data and analytics enabled work processes.
• Deliver internal, non-billable training sessions, seminars, and workshops for Syneos staff including clinical development fundamentals, interpreting protocols from an operational lens, and regulatory expectations.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to Syneos leaders on general approaches to scientific-operational alignment.
• Contribute to internal research and thought framing.
• Prepare internal briefing notes and high-level analyses on public trends in clinical development to inform Syneos’s internal strategy and staff education.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.