Strategic Initiatives, Project Manager

Location:

Morrisville, NC, United States

Position Summary:

Strategic Initiatives, Project Manager

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 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.

The Strategic Initiatives Project Manager is responsible for leading strategic, enterprise‑level projects that deliver measurable business value for Syneos Health. This role oversees cross‑functional teams to execute initiatives such as post‑M&A integrations, strategic partnership implementations, and business transformations. The Project Manager ensures alignment with enterprise strategy, promotes accountability, and fosters a culture of recognition while driving impactful outcomes.

• Manages matrixed project teams comprised of cross‑functional participants, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and accountability in line with established project governance.
• Develops and maintains project charters, integrated project plans, resource plans, risk and issue management plans, and other related project management artifacts.
• Executes and measures project progress against milestones and KPIs to ensure timely and successful completion of projects and realization of business value.
• Tracks and escalates risks and issues to the project team, program management, or executive management as appropriate, utilizing structured decision‑making tools.
• Manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed‑on time, cost, and quality parameters.
• Validates financial forecasts and provides ongoing reconciliation of resources and other related project expenditures.
• Drives change management and business readiness activities to support adoption and sustainment of new processes, systems, or structures.
• Publishes periodic project status reports and maintains transparent communication with stakeholders, including executive sponsors and steering groups.
• Chairs project team meetings to review progress, celebrate successes, and recognize individual and team contributions.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in routinely briefing key stakeholders on different aspects of assigned projects.
• Represents projects in various governance and inter‑departmental forums, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and escalation of key decisions.
• Supports initiatives by assisting in process mapping and process improvement efforts that enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Captures lessons learned and promotes continuous improvement by contributing to the evolution of methodology and best practices within the strategic initiative’s delivery team.

Min: 4 Year / Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent related education and experience (at least 5 years experience in project management).

• Knowledge and expertise in project management, including methodologies and tools.
• Experience in people…