Director/ Associate Director, Strategic Programs

1001 Syneos Health, LLC; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 119,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or car allowance

Health benefits

401k match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Sick time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Director/Associate Director to lead strategic programs and drive enterprise-wide process improvements within a healthcare context. The role emphasizes governance, KPI tracking, and collaboration with senior leaders across functions.

The position requires extensive program management experience, EPMO leadership, and strong presentation skills to shape investment decisions and strategic direction.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Extensive experience leading business process management and large-scale transformation.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive enterprise-wide change.

Responsibilities

• Lead process analysis, documentation, and optimization across enterprise workstreams.
• Provide program management oversight for process-driven initiatives with milestones.
• Develop and deliver executive presentations to influence decisions.

Skills

Executive leadership

Process management

Enterprise program management

Strategic decision-making

Presentation to executives

Data-driven insights

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Director/ Associate Director, Strategic Programs

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.

Job Responsibilities Core Responsibilities

• Lead process analysis, documentation, and optimization across enterprise workstreams tied to enterprise initiatives.
• Provide program management oversight for process-driven initiatives, ensuring delivery against milestones and objectives tied to enterprise initiatives.
• Proactively identify process gaps, risks, and inefficiencies; design and implement solutions to close them.
• Develop and deliver high-impact executive presentations to influence decision-making and drive accountability.
• Engage and challenge senior leaders to resolve issues, align priorities, and adopt transformation strategies. Communicate timely and proactively with the ability to influence, solution and partner.
• Support knowledge transfer (KT) efforts as a key transformational element, ensuring process clarity, consistency, and continuity across teams in an effort to mitigate risk for business continuity.
• Partner with Program Leads, Governance, and functional leaders to ensure process improvements align with broader enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelors Degree
• Extensive experience leading business process management, enterprise program management, and large-scale transformation initiatives across complex organizations.
• Deep expertise in EPMO leadership, process design, optimization, and driving enterprise-wide change at scale.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and shape strategic decisions across cross functional leadership teams.
• Track record of identifying systemic gaps and leading enterprise-wide process improvements that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Exceptional ability to develop and deliver executive-level presentations, facilitating leadership alignment and decision-making using data-driven insights.
• Strong capability in building and defending executive business cases that inform investment decisions and strategic direction.
• Demonstrated leadership in orchestrating multiple, interdependent workstreams into a cohesive enterprise program, ensuring alignment on priorities, milestones, risks, and outcomes.
• Ability to translate complex, cross-divisional data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Industry experience in healthcare, life sciences, or consulting strongly preferred.

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Salary Range: $118,700.00 - $207,800.00 The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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 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.