Remote Global Trials Optimizer & Project Manager I

Syneos Health; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or car allowance

Health benefits

401k match

Employee stock purchase plan

Bonus eligibility

Flexible PTO and sick time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Global Trials Optimization Specialist to drive feasibility, enrollment planning, and in-life trial optimization across global studies. You will partner with trial teams, vendors, legal, analytics, and stakeholders to identify enrollment opportunities and support patient- and site-facing recruitment efforts.

The role blends clinical trial operations, feasibility strategy, and performance analysis to help studies reach the right participants.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting clinical trials, feasibility, recruitment planning, enrollment strategy, or trial optimization.
• Strong ability to gather, interpret, and apply data to support planning and decision-making.
• Experience coordinating timelines, deliverables, stakeholder reviews, and cross-functional inputs.
• Ability to work with clinical trial teams, vendors, legal, analytics, and other business partners.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to develop clear reports, plans, updates, and study-facing materials.
• Detail-oriented approach with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced clinical research environment.
• Oncology clinical trial experience, especially in lung or breast cancer studies.
• Prior experience as an oncology site coordinator.
• Experience with recruitment and retention vendors, enrollment support materials, or patient/site-facing recruitment tactics.
• Familiarity with enrollment monitoring, performance analysis, country validation, risk tables, or trial allocation processes.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead early recruitment and retention planning during feasibility, including inputs for project cost estimates.
• Develop initial recruitment needs assessments and, where applicable, program-level recruitment budget estimates.
• Submit vendor requests and prepare recruitment and retention plans.
• Oversee enrollment support material development and tactic execution.
• Provide required materials to the Metrics, Analytics & Performance team to support accurate Study Optimizer plan entry.
• Monitor enrollment performance and prepare standard reporting.
• Coordinate enhanced enrollment support activities, which may include: Rescue site and country activities; Internal recruitment and retention refresher meetings; External recruitment and retention booster meetings; Additional participant- or site-facing materials; Rescue vendor engagement; Advocacy engagement and community outreach.

Skills

Clinical trials experience

Data interpretation

Timeline coordination

Stakeholder collaboration

Written communication

Detail-oriented

Oncology trials

Oncology site coordination

Recruitment vendors

Enrollment monitoring

Job description

Syneos Health is seeking a Global Trials Optimization Specialist to drive feasibility, enrollment planning, and in-life trial optimization across global studies. You will partner with trial teams, vendors, legal, analytics, and stakeholders to identify enrollment opportunities and support patient- and site-facing recruitment efforts.

The role blends clinical trial operations, feasibility strategy, and performance analysis to help studies reach the right participants.