[Hiring] SVP, Brand Strategy @Syneos Health Careers

Role Description

We are seeking an SVP, Strategy to serve as a senior strategic partner and right hand to Central Strategy leadership across high-priority new business, predictive strategy, innovation, and enterprise growth initiatives. This is a role for a sharp, commercially minded strategist who can move fluidly between big-picture thinking and hands-on execution.

• Help lead critical pitches and shape strategic narratives.
• Advance Predictive Storytelling capabilities.
• Bring greater focus, rigor, and momentum to complex client and agency opportunities.
• Build compelling pitch stories and pressure-test data-driven insights.
• Partner with creative and account leaders, managing senior stakeholders.
• Turn ambiguity into clear direction.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or agency strategy.
• Proven ability to lead complex strategic work across brands, pitches, and enterprise initiatives.
• Calm under pressure and energized by building what does not yet exist.
• A doer who can lead from the front and help teams win.

Requirements

• Significant senior-level strategy experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, communications, advertising, consulting, or a related agency environment.
• Proven track record leading or materially contributing to major new business pitches.
• Strong ability to build persuasive strategic narratives, executive presentations, and client-ready recommendations.
• Experience working with data, research, behavioral insights, audience segmentation, AI-enabled strategy, predictive analytics, or innovation-driven strategy.
• Strong understanding of brand strategy, positioning, stakeholder engagement, influence, behavior change, and integrated communications.
• Ability to translate complex inputs into simple, compelling strategic direction.
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, writing, and storytelling skills.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to advise senior leaders with confidence and diplomacy.
• Ability to work quickly and independently in ambiguous, high-pressure environments.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to partner effectively across strategy, creative, account, analytics, medical, digital, and executive teams.
• High standards for quality, detail, follow-through, and strategic discipline.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Health benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision.
• Company match 401k.
• Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Company Description

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. We are powered by Syneos Health, a global professional services organization designed to help the biopharmaceutical industry shorten the distance from lab to life®. We have a proven pedigree in health, with industry titans in every facet of healthcare.

• Eliminates guesswork and fuels our passion for total, life-changing solutions.
• Uniquely poised to predict what's next and respond to the market's demand for smarter and faster answers.
• Helps customers make important decisions within their business due to our unique understanding of the complexities that come along with working in the healthcare industry.