Assoc. Dir Total Rewards APAC

1001 Syneos Health, LLC; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 6,000,000 - 9,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking an Associate Director Total Rewards APAC to lead regional strategy and implementation across APAC, with a focus on India. You will partner with Global Total Rewards to shape programs, ensure compliance, and align with business goals while delivering exceptional employee experience.

You will oversee benefits, compensation cycles, job architecture, and governance, and mentor the APAC Total Rewards team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, business, finance, or related field.
• 8+ years Total Rewards/compensation/HR rewards experience with APAC leadership.
• Deep India Total Rewards expertise including salary structure design, benefits, and governance.
• Vendor management, annual renewals, regional program administration, budget management, and financial stewardship.
• Strong understanding of benefits, wellbeing, recognition, compensation, market benchmarking, and Total Rewards governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute APAC Total Rewards strategy with Global leadership.
• Oversee APAC benefits strategy, governance, administration, and delivery.
• Support regional compensation cycles, market reviews, salary structures, and related projects.
• Manage regional benefits budgets, vendor spend, and governance processes.
• Lead and develop the APAC Total Rewards team.

Skills

Total Rewards governance

Vendor management

Budget management

Compensation design

Market benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Finance

Job description

Assoc. Dir Total Rewards APAC

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. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: 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

Strategy & Leadership

Partner with Global Total Rewards leadership to develop and execute Total Rewards strategy across APAC. Provide APAC market insights, trends, and recommendations to influence global program design and local implementation. Identify opportunities to improve employee experience, efficiency, program effectiveness, and business alignment. Lead regional planning, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and execution across APAC.

Benefits & Wellbeing

Oversee APAC benefits strategy, governance, administration, and delivery aligned with the global Total Rewards philosophy. Lead annual renewals, vendor and broker management, and benefits implementation planning. Ensure programs comply with local regulatory requirements and are appropriately documented, governed, and communicated. Evaluate benefit competitiveness, employee needs, and market practices; recommend enhancements aligned with company philosophy and financial objectives. Support wellbeing, recognition, engagement initiatives, and related APAC communications.

Compensation

Support Partner with Global Compensation on regional initiatives, including annual compensation cycles, market reviews, salary structures, and selected projects. Support job architecture and career framework activities by providing regional insights, local market perspective, and implementation support. Provide regional and India-specific insights on labor market trends, competitive positioning, salary structures, compensation components, CTC design, allowances, benefits, statutory considerations, and employee impact. Partner with Compensation, HR, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and regional teams to support consistent, compliant execution of Total Rewards programs.

Governance & Financial Management

Manage regional benefits budgets, vendor spend, and financial planning inputs with Finance, Procurement, and global Total Rewards leadership. Ensure appropriate governance, controls, documentation, and decision‑making processes are in place for regional Total Rewards programs. Develop recommendations, business cases, and decision materials for senior leadership review. Support committee materials, executive reporting, and monitoring of program outcomes, risks, costs, and opportunities.

Team Leadership

Lead and develop the APAC Total Rewards team, including the APAC Total Rewards Manager and assigned Benefits/Rewards Analysts. Set clear priorities, expectations, development plans, operating rhythms, and accountability for high‑quality delivery. Build organizational capability, succession strength, and team effectiveness within the region.

Key Capabilities

Operates with initiative, urgency, and ownership of outcomes. Stays curious and seeks new tools and ways of working. Strategic thinker with strong execution discipline. Strong financial and analytical skills. Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment. Strong change management capabilities across multiple countries and stakeholders. Thinks systematically, connecting strategy, operations, and stakeholder dynamics. Ability to balance global consistency with local market requirements.

Qualification Requirements

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or related field.

8+ years of Total Rewards, compensation, benefits, or HR rewards experience, including APAC program leadership and people or matrix leadership.

Strong understanding of benefits, wellbeing, recognition, compensation, market benchmarking, and Total Rewards governance.

Demonstrated experience with vendor management, annual renewals, regional program administration, budget management, and financial stewardship.

Deep India Total Rewards expertise required, including salary structure design, compensation components, benefits administration, statutory and market allowances, cash and non‑cash rewards, and the financial, compliance, and employee experience implications of structure changes.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever‑changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com

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.

Discover what our Syneos Health colleagues already know: work here matters everywhere. Work alongside the brightest minds in the biopharmaceutical industry taking down walls and removing barriers to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients. We are strategic thinkers who actively seek different perspectives, whether across offices or across oceans. Because we solve some of the toughest challenges facing the most prestigious healthcare companies today, you'll gain exposure and be supported with comprehensive resources including emerging technologies, data, science and knowledge sharing. The diversification and breadth of Syneos Health creates a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. We’re a growing, global company dedicated to advancing our talent past their initial role. Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere.

We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career in which you’re guaranteed to: Partner with the most diverse team of experts in the industry. From the top down, our people are inspiring. Everyone has a voice and is encouraged to use it. Work in specialized Syneos Health teams that are therapeutically or functionally aligned for expert collaboration. We assemble clinical teams where everyone, from CRAs to senior management, is skilled in the same therapeutic area or customer teams. With this structure, everyone on your team speaks the same language and can deliver unique insights into the therapeutic environment and patient population. We are partners with purpose. We integrate seamlessly with our customers and do what’s best for their success. Our people provide the brilliant ideas, valuable insights and endless energy that accelerates the impact of life‑changing therapies worldwide.