Analyst, Corporate Development

Updated: November 5, 2025
Location: USA-NC-Morrisville-Hybrid
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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.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries 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 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. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

You create meaningful business impact by assisting in developing a strategic framework and provide the data and insights necessary to make decisions. You help shape the course of the only biopharmaceutical accelerator as a Corporate Strategy & Development Analyst with Syneos Health.

• Actively participate in the M&A process and may have day-to-day responsibilities across a number of activities including strategic initiatives, partnerships, strategic planning, and other similar transactions.
• Engage in due diligence, financial analysis and modeling.
• Provide valuation analysis.
• Assist with the due diligence and contract negotiation process.
• Provide market/competitive analysis.
• Assist in the creation of presentation materials summarizing investment opportunities and recommendations for senior management and the board of directors.
• Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

Travel may be required (up to 25%).

Minimum/Preferred Education Level Description

• Work experience in a related field such as investment banking, consulting, or private equity preferred.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a relevant life science field.
• Substantial experience in integrated financial modeling and valuation.
• Expert use of Excel and PowerPoint.
• The ability to travel as required (typically 20% but varies); travel may include international assignments.
• Acute attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence in presenting to management.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Strong motivation and work ethic, and the ability to work independently.
• A high level of professionalism and confidentiality.
• The ability to balance multiple projects and competing deadlines.

Minimum of 3 years’ experience in corporate strategy and M&A in a corporate finance environment, investment banking, private equity, and consulting or other relevant experience.

Position requires: ability to occasionally move about inside the office to access filing cabinets, office equipment, etc. and to move between office locations; ability to maintain a stationary position for prolonged periods of time; ability to occasionally manipulate (e.g., lift, carry, move) office items and packages of light to medium weights of 10-35 pounds; ability to constantly operate a computer and other office productivity equipment (e.g., scanner, phone, printer, copier);

ability to perceive and assess written materials for prolonged periods of time; and ability to frequently communicate with colleagues on the phone, by email, and in-person.

This job operates in a…