Sr. Director, Clinical Business Development

Syneos Health, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k match

Flexible PTO

Sick time

Job summary

Syneos Health, Inc. in Chicago seeks a Sr. Director of Clinical Business Development to drive sales growth across a defined geo. The role blends farming and hunting, developing tailored engagement plans and orchestrating multi-functional solution development.

The leader will rely on data-driven insights to prioritize time and resources, elevating the company’s presence in biopharma and coordinating cross-functional teams to address client needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or biopharma for business development or sales.
• Proven success managing complex B2B sales cycles with executives.
• Strong consultative selling and client needs assessment.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation abilities.
• Highly organized with prioritization in a fast-paced environment.
• Data-driven, strategic thinker with business acumen.
• CRM proficiency and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes a comprehensive sales strategy for defined territory.
• Manages territory with data-informed prioritization of time and opportunities.
• Identifies, engages, and nurtures key client relationships at all levels.
• Leads multi-touchpoint sales strategies based on client needs and goals.
• Drives expansion playbooks including renewals and next-phase conversions.
• Collaborates with operations, strategy, deal strategy, and delivery to co-develop solutions.
• Educates clients on Syneos Health’s value proposition and capabilities.
• Maintains territory performance records and forecasts pipeline progression.
• Represents Syneos Health at client meetings and events.

Skills

Bachelor’s Degree

Healthcare experience

B2B sales

Consultative selling

Interpersonal skills

Negotiation

Salesforce

MS Office

Travel 40%

Education

Bachelor’s degree (required)

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Salesforce

MS Office

Job description

Sr. Director, Clinical Business Development

Updated: Yesterday
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Job ID:18523-OTHLOC-CPKvYfwM

The Sr. Director, Regional Business Development is responsible for driving sales growth across an assigned geographic territory. This role blends strategic account farming with targeted hunting activities— balancing proactive expansion of existing accounts with the pursuit of new opportunities. By developing tailored engagement plans, building trusted relationships, and orchestrating multi-functional solution development, the Sr. Director, Regional Business Development drives both immediate impact and develops long-term value. Leveraging data-driven insights, this leader prioritizes time and resources to maximize territory performance and elevate Syneos Health’s presence within the biopharmaceutical industry.

Core Responsibilities

• Develops and executes a comprehensive sales strategy for a defined book of business and geographic territory, balancing new client acquisition with growth of existing accounts.
• Manages an optimized territory through data-informed prioritization of time, client opportunity, and market potential.
• Identifies, engages, and nurtures key client relationships with decision-makers, influencers, and stakeholders at all levels.
• Leads the orchestration of tailored, multi-touchpoint sales strategies based on client needs, pipeline dynamics, and strategic goals.
• Drives expansion playbooks, including therapeutically aligned strategies, renewal opportunities and next-phase conversions, to deepen account value.
• Collaborates closely with cross-functional teams—including operations, therapeutic strategy, deal strategy, and delivery —to co-develop solutions that address client-specific challenges.
• Acts as a client champion internally by sharing insights on client culture, preferences, and strategic priorities to enable effective team alignment and proposal development.
• Educates clients on Syneos Health’s differentiated value proposition, clinical and commercial capabilities, and evolving service offerings.
• Conducts regular territory performance reviews, forecasts pipeline progression, and adjusts plans based on shifting client and market needs.
• Maintains up-to-date records of client activity, pipeline, and sales progress within CRM platforms such as Salesforce.
• Stays current on industry trends, competitor developments, and emerging client needs to continuously refine engagement strategies.
• Represents Syneos Health at client meetings, industry conferences, and other relevant events to build brand presence and uncover new opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, advanced degree preferred
• Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or biopharma in a business development, commercial, or strategic sales role.
• Proven success managing complex B2B sales cycles and navigating mid- to executive-level client relationships.
• Strong consultative selling skills with a demonstrated ability to uncover client needs and co-create impactful solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiation abilities with a collaborative leadership style.
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Data-driven decision maker with strong business acumen and strategic thinking capability.
• Proficient in Salesforce or similar CRM platforms; Microsoft Office Suite experience required.
• Ability to travel up to 40% for client meetings, conferences, and internal events.

The annual base salary for this position is$180,000 – $258,000. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn bonus based on company and/or individual performance.

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

Why Syneos Health? We partner with industry experts to solve and execute against today’s toughest commercialization challenges facing the world’s leading healthcare companies. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities on our Commercial Operations and Leadership teams. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients’ lives around the world.

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

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 will include a competitive compensation package, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, 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 Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. 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 work improvespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health ® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients.