Principal Global Feasibility

About Syneos Health
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team
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.

Why Syneos Health

• 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. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

• Is able to independently undertake the highest complexity level RFPs and Feasibility objectives across all therapeutic areas; confidently assesses the level of data and analysis required and proposes reasonable approaches for RFPs and individual paid or partnership feasibility assessments.
• Proactively liaises with Business Units, Business Development, Medical Directors, Business Analysts, and other members of the team as needed to review RFP challenges and works collaboratively to a solution with no oversight required.
• Proactively identifies solutions to non-standard requests. Applies knowledge/skills to a range of moderately complex activities. Appropriate identification and escalation of issues from mentoring to management as needed.
• Acts as representative of Global Feasibility in all interactions with internal and external stakeholders, with the highest degree of collaboration, professionalism, integrity, quality.
• Capability to work efficiently within processes and undertake delivery of an average to higher number of assignments and complexity concurrently across all therapeutic areas as needed.
• Development, analysis and delivery of pre-award site level feasibility assessments into presentations and/or written reports for delivery to internal/external stakeholders, independently.
• Upholds highest standards of Global Feasibility role;
• Maintains comprehensive records of work and stores all relevant data within internal libraries in a timely manner, independently, without audit issues.
• Excellent editing-level verbal, written and visual communication skills.
• Independently manages and performs research of scientific literature using internet and internal metrics and tools to provide background information, with a high degree of understanding and detail.
• Independently supports the preparation of material for and attends bid defense teleconferences and meetings, under minimal review and supervision of a line manager or delegate.
• May coordinate work of other team members as needed on larger joint projects, multi-study assignments or alliance/ FSP partnerships.
• Ability to mentor junior team members up to Senior Feasibility Lead, Global Feasibility level providing text and slide deck editing, data collection and processing insights across all therapeutic indications.
• New team member mentoring upon discretion of the Line Manager.
• Supports department management in development of group initiatives and achieving business objectives. May participate in and support activities related to department staff operations.
• Actively participates in developing relevant metrics to measure the impact of data asset use, protocol feasibility assessments, other departmental activities.
• May participate as departmental Subject Matter Expert (SME) or represent Feasibility in development of feasibility-impacted processes and systems, including evaluation of departmental data asset assessments and support collection of associated metrics.
• May be asked to develop, audit and maintain departmental systems for storage and retrieval and analysis of historical feasibility data in support of current RFPs and RFIs.

Qualifications

• BS / RN / MS plus 7 years relevant experience or
• PhD / MD and 3 years relevant experience
• Knowledge of Drug development, a thorough understanding of the processes associated with global country and site feasibility, clinical study start-up and business operations
• Experience in clinical research, including clinical trial conduct, knowledge of GCP and a good understanding of the processes associated with study/project management, monitoring, clinical and regulatory operations
• History of success in a customer service role with demonstration of meeting customer expectations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Effective presentation and facilitation skills.
• Well-developed strategic planning, observation, analytical operational execution and problem-solving skills
• Strong business consultancy skills, including ability to persuade, negotiate, and moderate conflict
• Ability to multitask under tight deadlines on several projects with specific and unique requirements, while providing attention to detail and high quality work.
• Able to synthesize key messages pulling across multiple data sets

Additional Information
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.