Global Trials Optimization Specialist / Project Manager I (Sponsor Dedicated/Remote - US only)

Syneos Health, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Global Trials Optimization Specialist to support feasibility, enrollment planning, and in-life trial optimization for sponsor-dedicated programs. You will analyze data, model inputs, and country inputs to craft practical enrollment strategies that align with study goals.

You will collaborate with clinical trial teams, vendors, legal, analytics, and other stakeholders to identify opportunities, address challenges, and drive trial performance from feasibility through

Qualifications

• Experience reading and interpreting study data and enrollment benchmarks.
• Ability to translate data into practical feasibility and enrollment strategies.
• Strong communication skills to coordinate with trial teams, vendors, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess feasibility and plan for trial optimization across global studies.
• Support program reviews, requirements, timelines, and country validation requests.
• Lead recruitment and retention planning during feasibility and study setup.
• Prepare and maintain the Global Trials Optimization Report through study lifecycle.
• Coordinate with clinical teams, analytics, and legal for enrollment opportunities.
• Assist with scenario planning and allocation requests for trial resources.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Clinical trial operations

Job description

Global Trials Optimization Specialist / Project Manager I (Sponsor Dedicated/Remote - US only)

Updated: Yesterday
Location: Remote, MD, United States
Job ID:25111448-OTHLOC-1500-2DMD-2DR

Description

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 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.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

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

Global Trials Optimization Specialist

Sponsor Dedicated/ Remote - US only

Are you energized by using data, planning, and cross-functional collaboration to help clinical trials enroll successfully? We’re seeking a Global Trials Optimization Specialist to support program feasibility, recruitment and retention planning, and in-life trial optimization across global clinical studies.

In this role, you’ll help translate trial goals, country input, modeling data, and enrollment insights into practical strategies that support study execution. You’ll partner with clinical trial teams, vendors, legal, analytics, and other stakeholders to identify enrollment opportunities, address challenges, and support patient- and site-facing recruitment efforts.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys combining clinical trial operations, feasibility strategy, recruitment planning, stakeholder coordination, and performance analysis to help studies reach the right participants.

What You’ll Do

Program Feasibility and Trial Optimization

• Gather data, benchmarks, and modeling inputs to support feasibility and trial optimization planning.

• Support program review development, including content review and escalation of requirements as needed.

• Plan timelines for validation, deliverable development, stakeholder alignment, presentation preparation, and country validation requests.

• Support validation and Clinical Trials Allocation Committee activities, including scenario planning, risk table inputs, validation review, modeling updates, and final allocation requests.

• Author the initial Global Trials Optimization Report and maintain subsequent report updates throughout the trial lifecycle.

• Complete recruitment needs assessments and ensure trial‑level GTO reports remain current and actionable.

Recruitment and Retention Planning

• Lead early recruitment and retention planning during feasibility, including inputs for project cost estimates.

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