Director, Clin Dev Ops

Director, Clin Dev Ops 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 Summary Lead Technical Strategy for FSP Enablement Team, provides direction and management associated with the Company’s business operations, ensuring the Company’s Trusted Process™ methodology, project management standards, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are optimized and implemented consistently. Works to ensure internal and Customer quality standards, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guidelines are fulfilled. Provides strategic and operational level planning. Drive ‘positive change’ throughout the company through effective participation in continuous process improvement program. Manages and provides leadership to Syneos Health, including the supervision of more senior level management positions in the assigned Business Unit and region. Core Responsibilities • Participates in both short and long-term planning for all aspects of the Department’s operations and growth. Contributes operational input to other departments as appropriate, including developing and distributing appropriate reports to executive management. • Leads the forecasting, planning and logistics for clinical operations activities, ensuring performance and quality standards are met. Reviews performance of the Company’s activities and makes recommendations for improvement in quality/efficiency. • Leads or oversees assigned business and assigned strategic improvement initiatives to achieve the desired outcomes. • Line management of Syneos Health staff, responsibilities including professional development, performance appraisals, and employee counseling for junior and management staff. Manages staff by establishing goals that will increase knowledge and skill levels, and by delegating tasks commensurate with skill level. Manage senior level professional staff. • Supports the development of the regional staff plan, identifying needs to hire new staff in a timely fashion and oversee the talent acquisition process in the assigned country. Proactively works to ensure staff retention and turnover rates remain within expected levels. • Liaison and facilitator between the Company’s operation’s departments and