Clinical Scientist - Clinical Surveillance & Training; Clinical Psychologist​/Neuropsychologist

Clinical Scientist
- Clinical Surveillance & Training (Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist
- Must Have)

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 to help 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.

Join our Clinical Surveillance & Training (CST) team as a Clinical Scientist, where you will play a critical role in ensuring endpoint quality, data integrity, and trial success across global clinical programs. This is a highly visible, impact-driven role working at the intersection of science and clinical operations.

• Lead Rater Training Excellence: Design and deliver scientifically grounded rater training programs to ensure consistent, high-quality endpoint assessment and reduce variability across sites.
• Drive Patient Eligibility Quality: Perform comprehensive eligibility reviews, providing a second level of scientific oversight to confirm appropriate patient selection and minimize protocol deviations and safety risks.
• Deliver Data-Driven Insights: Analyze clinical and endpoint data to identify trends, variability, and potential risks – translating findings into actionable insights that improve study execution.
• Shape Protocol Strategy: Partner with sponsors and study teams to review protocols and provide expert guidance on endpoint strategy, scale selection, and study design feasibility.
• Act as a Scientific Leader: Collaborate cross-functionally with clinical operations, medical, and sponsor teams to proactively identify risks and deliver solutions that protect study integrity.

• Directly impacts data reliability, regulatory confidence, and trial outcomes
• Enables smarter, faster decision-making through scientific insight and analytics
• Plays a key role in delivering high-quality, successful clinical trials

• Doctoral level degree relevant to therapeutic area (e.g., for CNS: Clinical Psychology PhD or PsyD or Psychiatry MD).
• Moderate to extensive clinical experience with patients in relevant therapeutic areas.
• Knowledge of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric assessments, including patient reported outcome measures, inferential biostatistics, and medical terminology.
• Experience with clinical research or pharmaceutical industry.
• Excellent planning/organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade.
• Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting in professional settings.
• Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 20%).

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which our people can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a 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, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

$97,300.00 - $

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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…