Dir, Epidemiology Pipeline (TA - Virology)

Syneos Health

About The Position

This position is for a Director, Epidemiology Pipeline, with a focus on Virology Clinical Trials, at Syneos Health. Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization dedicated to accelerating customer success by translating clinical, medical affairs, and commercial insights into outcomes. The company emphasizes a Clinical Development model centered on the customer and patient, striving for simplified and streamlined work processes. This role is part of an ongoing talent pipeline, meaning there is no immediate opening, but qualified candidates will be considered as opportunities arise. Syneos Health is committed to developing its employees through career progression, supportive management, training, and a total rewards program, fostering a "Total Self" culture that values diversity and belonging. The Director will serve as a scientific resource, drive global business opportunities, provide scientific oversight for projects, coordinate study management, develop essential study documents, and ensure compliance with epidemiological guidelines. The role also involves building organizational capacity, improving scientific and operational processes, developing business in post-marketing safety and risk management, fostering relationships with stakeholders, and promoting company services through publications and presentations.

Requirements

SME in Virology Clinical Trials
Requires graduate degree in Epidemiology, Statistics, or Public Health
Requires in-depth knowledge of and experience with a variety of study designs
Requires basic knowledge of statistical programming language(s) (e.g., SAS, R, Python)
Excellent communication, presentation, both written and spoken
Strong personal communication and team-oriented skills
Demonstrated leadership and technical skills

Nice To Haves

Doctorate degree in Epidemiology, Statistics, or Public Health
Familiarity with post-marketing and late phase study designs as well as relevant guidelines preferred

Responsibilities

Serves as a 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 oversight of selected projects, responsible for meeting or exceeding customer expectations for timelines, budgets, quality, and overall satisfaction.
Coordinates with the project manager to oversee the scientific aspects of study start-up and ongoing study management.
Leads the development of and/or peer-review 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 reports/manuscripts/abstracts/presentations.
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 develops trainings for RWLP/Company organization to enhance their familiarization of epidemiologic study designs and applicable guidelines.
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.
Works to develop collegial relationships with sponsors, thought-leaders and clinical investigators.
Develops abstracts, provides podium presentations, and leads authorship of articles, manuscripts, etc. in industry and peer-reviewed journals to promote Company services.

Benefits

career development and progression
supportive and engaged line management
technical and therapeutic area training
peer recognition and total rewards program
company car or car allowance
Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
Company match 401k
eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance
flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time