Senior Advisor, Internal Clinical… at Syneoshealth · Portugal

Senior Advisor, Internal Clinical Excellence Location: PRT-Remote Senior Advisor, Internal Clinical Excellence 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 JOB RESPONSIBILITIES • Contribute to the development and refinement of internal best-practice documents, playbooks, and training materials on general clinical development and operational excellence (e.g., risk identification checklists, escalation templates, generic governance models). • Contribute to the development of Syneos technology, data and analytics enabled work processes • Deliver internal, non-billable training sessions, seminar and workshops for Syneos staff including clinical development fundamentals, interpreting protocols from an operational lens, and regulatory expectations. • Provide mentoring and coaching to Syneos leaders on general approaches to scientific-operational alignment. • Contribute to internal research and thought framing: • Prepare internal briefing notes and high-level analyses on public trends in clinical development to inform Syneos’s internal strategy and staff education. QUALIFICATION EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS • Medical degree (MD, DO, or equivalent); additional training (PhD, MPH, MBA) is advantageous. • 10–15 years of relevant experience in clinical research, with at least 5 years in a CRO or client facing strategic role. • Strong knowledge of ICH-GCP guidelines, clinical trial design, and global regulatory requirements. • Demonstrated experience in therapeutic strategy, protocol development, and medical review. • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with business development teams and present to clients. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex scientific information for diverse audiences. • Demonstrated ability to understand customer needs, have difficult conversations with internal and external stakeholders and customers, negotiate solutions and understand impacts on the overall offering • Advanced business acumen, innovative and strategic thinking alongside confidence with financial considerations, excellent negotiation and influencing skills, and comfort working in both sales and operational environments • Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders • Fluency in written and spoken English is essential. Disclaimer: 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. Get to know Syneos Health Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients. No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health. http://www.syneoshealth.com 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.