Global Compensation Lead

Updated: Yesterday
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.

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

• 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.

We are seeking an inspiring, future-focused Global Compensation Lead to champion and operationalize a world-class compensation strategy for a complex, rapidly evolving people-services organization. Because our business outcomes directly depend on how we attract, retain, and deploy talent, compensation plays a central role in our business economics—and this leader will be at the center of shaping that impact.

This role is ideal for a builder and a strategist: someone who brings both big-picture vision and deep hands-on expertise; someone who thrives in a dynamic environment of change; and someone energized by the opportunity to elevate compensation as a core driver of operational excellence and financial performance.

As a senior leader within Global Total Rewards & Performance, you will oversee compensation strategy, detailed design, governance, and the end-to-end execution of programs across a diverse, global workforce. This includes partnering deeply with business leaders and HR Business Partners to ensure our compensation philosophy and practices reflect our values, market realities, and the economics of a global people-services model.

• Develop and deliver a global compensation strategy that reflects the realities of a people-services business—where talent is our product, our differentiator, and our core economic engine.
• Build and manage compensation frameworks, job architecture, salary structures, pay-for-performance programs, and governance models across 60 countries – 12 core countries which employ 85% of our team.
• Apply AI, automation, and predictive analytics to improve modeling, scenario planning, pay transparency, and scalability.
• Ensure compensation programs support growth across diverse business units—clinical operations, corporate functions, commercial divisions, consulting teams, and a media/communications agency.

• Design and deliver a global manager education strategy that raises the capability of people leaders at all levels.
• Train managers to understand the fundamentals of business economics in a people-services organization—how compensation decisions directly influence revenue, margin, utilization, and overall organizational performance.
• Develop simple, scalable tools and learning materials that help managers make consistent, informed, financially sound compensation decisions.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to embed strong compensation literacy into leadership development, talent processes, and manager onboarding.

• Oversee the end-to-end execution of global annual compensation cycles with precision, transparency, and operational excellence.
• Strengthen governance and decision…