**Description** **Therapeutic Strategy & Innovation Executive Director EU (Early Phase Oncology, Pre-award strategy)** Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for. 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 accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives. Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:
**WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE** **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 our Total Self culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we're able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong. **Job responsibilities**




- Serve as the scientific and therapeutic executive lead for internal and external customers in early engagement, RFI and RFP response through BDM to award.
- Lead customer meetings inclusive of early engagement opportunities, identifying customer strategic needs, therapeutic consultation and customer follow-up
- Drive proposals and bid defenses through utilization of therapeutic expertise, knowledge of clinical development strategy and familiarity with Syneos Health capabilities. Proposes innovative operational delivery strategies and drug development solutions for customers.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to accelerate and optimize execution.
- Accountable for final review and approval of strategy, proposal and budget by utilizing industry benchmarking, global market analysis, knowledge of appropriate labor allocation & pricing strategies
- Liaise with other therapeutic specialists, strategy leads, medical team, and project leadership to ensure consistency of approach and development and implementation of best practices across global project leadership therapeutic segments
- Maintain strong therapeutic knowledge in order to provide therapeutic advice and strategy to customers and internal teams as needed.
- Participate in strategic planning activities to drive business growth and achieve defined business goals in assigned therapeutic area (TA).




- Identify customer needs and drug development trends to contribute to development of new solutions, collaborating across the Clinical and Commercial Solutions divisions. **Qualifications** **What we're looking for**
- Requires a BA/BS in the life sciences, nursing degree, or equivalent education or equivalent related experience, plus extensive clinical research experience in a contract research organization, pharmaceutical, or biotechnology company
- Prior cross-functional project management experience within the clinical trial industry is required
- Pharma/CRO experience is required, to include positive track record of building and maintaining client relationships
- In depth, extensive knowledge of one or more therapeutic areas
- Knowledge of clinical development and delivery strategy
- In depth, extensive knowledge of developing and analysis of clinical trial budget using internal budgeting tool
- Thorough knowledge of FDA regulations, drug development, and clinical monitoring procedures is necessary
- Must have demonstrated proficiency with ICH/GCP guidelines
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks within a dynamic projectized matrix team environment is essential - all while assuring project delivery on time and with quality
- Requires strong presentation, documentation and interpersonal skills as well as a team-oriented approach **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

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