Sr Site Activation Manager

1001 Syneos Health, LLC; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car or car allowance

Health benefits (Medical, Dental, Visi

Job summary

Syneos Health in the United States is seeking a Sr Site Activation Manager to lead and manage site activation and start-up activities for global clinical trials, ensuring milestones are met. You will oversee regulatory submissions across multiple countries and collaborate with sponsors, sites, and cross-functional teams.

The role requires proactive risk mitigation, adherence to GCP and SOPs, and mentorship of junior staff as part of process improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience leading site activation for global trials.
• Knowledge of regulatory submissions and IRB/ethics processes.
• Ability to manage multiple studies in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage site activation and start-up activities for global clinical trials, ensuring milestones and timelines are met.
• Oversee regulatory, ethics/IRB, and site activation submissions across multiple countries and regions.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for site start-up activities, partnering with sponsors, sites, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
• Drive issue resolution and proactively identify and mitigate risks that may impact study timelines.
• Provide strategic oversight and guidance on country-specific regulatory requirements and start-up processes.
• Track start-up metrics, study deliverables, and activation performance, ensuring compliance with study objectives.
• Support and mentor junior team members and contribute to process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with GCP, applicable regulations, and company SOPs.
• Collaborate with Project Management and Clinical Operations teams to support successful study execution.
• Manage multiple studies and priorities in a fast-paced global environment.

Skills

Site activation

Regulatory submissions

Cross-functional collaboration

GCP compliance

Job description

Sr Site Activation Manager 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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage site activation and start-up activities for global clinical trials, ensuring milestones and timelines are met.
• Oversee regulatory, ethics/IRB, and site activation submissions across multiple countries and regions.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for site start-up activities, partnering with sponsors, sites, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
• Drive issue resolution and proactively identify and mitigate risks that may impact study timelines.
• Provide strategic oversight and guidance on country-specific regulatory requirements and start-up processes.
• Track start-up metrics, study deliverables, and activation performance, ensuring compliance with study objectives.
• Support and mentor junior team members and contribute to process improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with GCP, applicable regulations, and company SOPs.
• Collaborate with Project Management and Clinical Operations teams to support successful study execution.
• Manage multiple studies and priorities in a fast-paced global environment.

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance.

Benefits

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

Salary Range: $79,800.00 - $139,600.00 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.

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.

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.