Overview

Director, Strategic Process & Programs (EPMO) — Updated: September 16, 2025 | Location: GBR-Remote | Job ID: 25101586

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. 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. We believe that diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives helps everyone belong.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities

• Lead process analysis, documentation, and optimization across enterprise workstreams tied to enterprise initiatives.
• Provide program management oversight for process-driven initiatives, ensuring delivery against milestones and objectives tied to enterprise initiatives.
• Proactively identify process gaps, risks, and inefficiencies; design and implement solutions to close them.
• Develop and deliver high-impact executive presentations to influence decision-making and drive accountability.
• Engage and challenge senior leaders to resolve issues, align priorities, and adopt transformation strategies. Communicate timely and proactively with the ability to influence, solution and partner.
• Support knowledge transfer (KT) efforts as a key transformational element, ensuring process clarity, consistency, and continuity across teams to mitigate risk for business continuity.
• Partner with Program Leads, Governance, and functional leaders to ensure process improvements align with broader enterprise goals.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in business process management, program management, or enterprise transformation.
• Strong background in process design, optimization, and enterprise change initiatives.
• Proven experience in communicating with and influencing executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to independently identify gaps and drive enterprise-wide process improvements.
• Exceptional skills in building executive presentations and facilitating leadership discussions.
• Industry experience in healthcare, life sciences, or consulting strongly preferred

Critical Skills

• Executive Communication & Influence
• Process Excellence & Optimization
• Program/Portfolio Management
• Strategic Problem Solving
• Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment

Compensation and Benefits

Salary Range: $118,700.00 - $207,800.00. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high for this position. Actual salary will vary based on qualifications, skills, and proficiency. Benefits may include a company car or car allowance, medical/dental/vision, 401(k) match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, eligibility for commissions/bonus, and flexible PTO and sick time. Paid sick time eligibility varies by location. Syneos complies with all applicable paid sick time requirements.

Summary

The Director, Strategic Process & Programs is responsible for optimizing and aligning enterprise processes to support large-scale transformation programs. This role combines deep process expertise with program management skills, operating independently to identify gaps, drive accountability, and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders. The Director will also develop and deliver executive-level presentations to guide strategic decision-making and ensure alignment across workstreams.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Discover what our 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world.

Phone: 919 876 9300 | Fax: 919 876 9360 | Toll-Free: 866 462 7373

Equal Opportunity

Syneos Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, marital status, ethnicity, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact jobs@syneoshealth.com.