Medical Affairs Consulting MD — Growth Leader

Syneos Health, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health in London seeks a Managing Director, Medical Affairs Consulting to lead a growing practice. You will drive strategic direction, secure profitable business, and forecast pricing while shaping growth in Medical Affairs consulting.

The role requires an accomplished life sciences leader with an MBA or advanced degree, a network in medical affairs, and a track record of selling and expanding consulting revenues across global accounts.

Qualifications

• MBA or a life sciences graduate degree is required.
• Authority in medical affairs commercial strategy.
• Proven track record selling and growing consulting revenues.

Responsibilities

• Build positive working relationships with customers, consulting staff, managers, leadership, and internal support teams.
• Develop and lead, independently, a large customer book of business.
• Support the development of a healthy Advisory Group and overall Consulting business unit.
• Achieve billable utilization, lead book of business, and sales targets, while collaborating with others to attain overall business objectives and metrics.

Skills

Medical affairs strategy

Sales leadership

Consulting revenue growth

Education

MBA or life sciences degree

Job description

Managing Director, Medical Affairs Consulting

Updated: July 24, 2026
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Job ID:16803

You’re driven, resourceful, and above all else – remarkably smart.

In this role, you will demonstrate your experience as a thought leader in the biopharmaceutical industry and be a trusted advisor. Viewed as a key senior leader within the consulting business, the Managing Director drives meaningful commercial success by securing profitable business, actively harvesting accounts, creating leads, and ensuring accurate project forecasting and pricing. As part of the Consulting leadership team, the Managing Director - Medical Affairs will contribute to setting business direction, strategy, and priorities and take ownership for driving the overall growth and scalability of the Medical Affairs consulting business. You will:

• Build positive working relationships with customers, consulting staff, managers, leadership, and internal support teams.
• Develop and lead, independently, a large customer book of business.
• Support the development of a growing a healthy Advisory Group and overall Consulting business unit, above and beyond individual contributions of sales and book of business.
• Achieve billable utilization, led book of business, and sales targets, while collaborating with others to attain overall business objectives and metrics.
• MBA or a graduate degree in a life sciences field
• Known authority in medical affairs commercial strategy; able to leverage external network to improve profitable revenues and market positioning
• A strong history of successfully selling, delivering and growing consulting revenues

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experiencedoesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills fromprevious roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stayconnected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health? Here, you're a part of the big picture. You will collaborate with colleaguesacross clinical and commercial disciplines to guide premarket development through post-market commercial strategy.Every project is a chance to solve a new challenge, learn from your colleagues, and advance your career. Thediversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employmentopportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to getbiopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts arecontributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers(Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Discover what our more than 25,000 employees already know: work here matterseverywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday workimprovespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures acareer inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization builtto accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercialinsights into outcomes to address modern market realities. To learn more visit syneoshealth.com .

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receiveconsideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status,ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protectedveteran status, disability or any other legally protected status and will not bediscriminated against. If you are an individual with a disability who requires reasonableaccommodation to complete any part of our application process, including the use of thiswebsite, please contact us at: Email: [emailprotected] One of our staff members willwork with you to provide alternate means to submit your application.