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Managing Director, R&D Consulting

Syneos Health, Inc.
London
1 month ago
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Updated:April 1, 2025
Location:London, ENG, United Kingdom
Job ID:5117

You are the first to roll up your sleeves and work with relentless energy until you solve the unsolvable, beat the unbeatable and come out on top.

In this role, you will be accountable for project management, team leadership, and business development. As a visible leader of the business, you will drive commercial success by securing profitable business, actively harvesting accounts, creating leads, and ensuring accurate project forecasting and pricing. You’ll join the R&D Advisory Group within Syneos Health Consulting, where you will help make life science R&D organisations and operations more efficient and effective across research, clinical, regulatory, quality, and pharmacovigilance. You will:

  1. Build relationships with customers, consulting staff, managers, leadership, and internal support teams
  2. Develop and lead a large customer book of business
  3. Oversee project budgets accordingly
  4. Be responsible for the design, efficiency, and outcomes related to customer projects
  5. Facilitate project team discussions to pressure test customer recommendations, underlying assumptions, and final deliverable quality

Qualifications:

  • MBA or a graduate degree in a life sciences field
  • Demonstrated new business experience, from organic growth to RFI/RFP planning, development, and execution
  • Experience across both promotional and non-promotional commercialisation activities
  • Proficient in PowerPoint and Excel
  • Ability to travel

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. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health?Here, you're a part of the big picture. You will collaborate with colleagues across clinical and commercial disciplines to guide premarket development through post-market commercial strategy. Every project is a chance to solve a new challenge, learn from your colleagues, and advance your career. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard, and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to those who need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improves patients’ lives around the world.

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