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

Core responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive Clinical Sub Team / study timelines from protocol concept through database lock and closeout. Ensuring connectivity with the Asset Level Plan.
• Coordinate across a range of stakeholders inclusive of the Clinical Project Manager and the Asset Operations Lead / Asset Planner.
• Identify critical path activities and schedule dependencies.
• Build and maintain scenario-based plans.
• Forecast milestone delivery dates using data-driven assumptions.
• Assess impacts of changes and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Support IPSEN in building / refining templated Clinical Sub-Team Plans / Study Plans.
• Establish Clinical Sub Team planning governance and tracking mechanisms ensuring fit with overall Asset Level Planning processes.
• Support the CPM to Manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Monitor progress against baseline plans.
• Support resource and capacity planning activities.
• Work with the CPM to drive accountability for milestone achievement.
• Present schedules and forecasts in executive-friendly formats.

• Develop clear planning dashboards.

• Communicate risks and recovery plans effectively.
• Tailor messaging for operational and leadership audiences.
• Deep expertise in use of planning tools - OnePlan preferred but Plannisware or similar is acceptable.
• Has a good understanding of the overall Clinical Trial planning eco-system e.g. CTMS/OnePlan etc.

• Capture lessons learned.

• Standardize planning methodologies.

• Improve forecasting accuracy.

• Drive operational excellence initiatives.
• Champion best practices and innovation.
• Own study-plan quality and completeness (e.g., quality reviews)
• Prepare and conduct training to CDO colleagues to support adoption of study-level OnePlan standards and tools, as needed.
• Act as CDO SME on planning template and process

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.

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.

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