Sr Site Contracts Specialist/Contract Navigator - US Home-based/Remote

Syneos Health, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Senior Site Contracts Specialist/Contract Navigator to support end-to-end contracting for internal stakeholders and external parties, including professionals, institutions, and vendors. The role requires strong critical thinking, risk assessment, and the ability to influence across a matrix organization.

Based in the US and remote-friendly, you will guide contract development and negotiation, ensure compliance, and help optimize processes to accelerate project

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, business, law, operations, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Guide stakeholders through the contracting process to reduce administrative burden and accelerate project execution.
• Manage contract-related activities from intake through completion, including coordination, tracking, documentation, and issue resolution.
• Apply critical thinking to evaluate requests, clarify business needs, identify risks and gaps, and recommend appropriate paths forward.
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion when addressing complex, high-priority, or time-sensitive matters.
• Build and maintain productive relationships across a matrix organization, aligning stakeholders with different priorities, responsibilities, and decision-making authority.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner who can influence outcomes without direct authority and promote timely, transparent, and informed decisions.
• Coordinate with internal partner functions and external parties during contract development and negotiation, including discussion of business terms and financial considerations.
• Implement applicable strategies, standards, processes, and controls in alignment with business needs and operational objectives.
• Maintain visibility into contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and related activities so stakeholders can monitor project status, risks, and next steps.
• Proactively identify and resolve process, purchase order, invoice, and vendor issues, escalating when appropriate.
• Identify improvement opportunities, remove barriers, share best practices, and help develop scalable tools and processes.
• Promote customer focus, enterprise thinking, cross-functional collaboration, compliance, ethics, safety, and responsible risk management.

Education

Bachelor's degree in science, business, law, operations, or a related field

Job description

Sr Site Contracts Specialist/Contract Navigator - US Home-based/Remote

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

Position Overview

The Contract Navigator is an individual contributor and subject-matter resource responsible for supporting the end-to-end contracting process for internal stakeholders and external parties, including professionals, institutions, and vendors. The role provides strategic and operational guidance, coordinates cross-functional activities, and helps ensure contracts are executed efficiently, accurately, and in accordance with applicable policies, legal requirements, and ethical standards. Success requires strong critical thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to assess complex or incomplete information, identify risks and dependencies, and develop practical solutions with limited oversight. The role operates in a matrix environment and requires effective collaboration across business, procurement, contracting, legal, finance, compliance, and other partner functions. The individual must be able to influence without direct authority, balance competing priorities, and maintain accountability across multiple stakeholders.

Core Responsibilities

• Guide stakeholders through the contracting process to reduce administrative burden and accelerate project execution.
• Manage contract-related activities from intake through completion, including coordination, tracking, documentation, and issue resolution.
• Apply critical thinking to evaluate requests, clarify business needs, identify risks and gaps, and recommend appropriate paths forward.
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion when addressing complex, high-priority, or time-sensitive matters.
• Build and maintain productive relationships across a matrix organization, aligning stakeholders with different priorities, responsibilities, and decision-making authority.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner who can influence outcomes without direct authority and promote timely, transparent, and informed decisions.
• Coordinate with internal partner functions and external parties during contract development and negotiation, including discussion of business terms and financial considerations.
• Implement applicable strategies, standards, processes, and controls in alignment with business needs and operational objectives.
• Maintain visibility into contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and related activities so stakeholders can monitor project status, risks, and next steps.
• Proactively identify and resolve process, purchase order, invoice, and vendor issues, escalating when appropriate.
• Identify improvement opportunities, remove barriers, share best practices, and help develop scalable tools and processes.
• Promote customer focus, enterprise thinking, cross-functional collaboration, compliance, ethics, safety, and responsible risk management.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in science, business, law, operations, or a related field; a legal or paralegal credential is preferred.
• Five or more years of relevant experience in a regulated, contract-intensive, or similarly complex CRO environment working with site contracts, CDAs, HCP, Vendor Agreements, and/or other types of contracts.
• Demonstrated ability to think critically, analyze complex information, anticipate downstrea