Sr Director, Epidemiology RWE

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

• Serves as the lead scientific resource for RWLP management, Company senior management, and other Functions within Company providing expertise in multiple scientific areas.
• Works hand-in-hand with RWLP management, business development, and operations personnel to develop and win global business opportunities; helps to lead the development and delivery of project proposals, bid defenses, and represents capabilities presentations.
• Provides overall scientific executive oversight of selected projects, responsible for meeting or exceeding customer expectations for timelines, budgets, quality, and overall satisfaction.
• Guides the development of abstracts, podium presentations, and authorship of articles, manuscripts, etc. in industry and peer-reviewed journals to promote Company services in alignment with sales and marketing strategy.
• Responsible for the continued building of organizational capacity, improvement of scientific and operational processes and methodologies for non-traditional site management tasks (i.e., remote or central monitoring approaches, minimized regulatory document collection, etc.), integrated RWLP technology solutions including secondary database resources, and RWLP Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) development and maintenance.
• Works collaboratively across the organization to help develop business opportunities in the area of post marketing safety commitments and/or risk management; develops and recommends techniques to improve productivity, increase efficiencies, cut costs, take advantage of opportunities, and maintain state-of-the-art practices.
• Provides executive oversight of the scientific aspects of study start-up and ongoing study management including review/design/consultation of essential study documents including the protocol, case report forms, statistical analysis plan, study management plans, and interim/final study reports. Facilitates scientific advisory boards for safety studies and produces scientific documents.
• Maintains a strong working understanding of clinical and epidemiological practice guidelines, clinical research models, protocol designs, real-world research development trends, and regulatory expectations and guides the development of trainings for RWLP/Company organization to enhance their familiarization of epidemiologic study designs and applicable guidelines.
• Works to develop collegial relationships with sponsors, thought-leaders and clinical investigators.
• Provides consulting, as appropriate to sponsors and regulatory authorities on a variety of topics, including clinical program and protocol design, operational issues, scientific programs/publications, advisory boards, medical/safety/ethical issues, etc.

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.

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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.