Clinical Communications Director

Clinical Communications Director

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.

The Clinical Communications Director will lead internal communications for our global Clinical business. This role will serve as the chief communications strategist to our Chief Operating Officer (COO) - shaping the narrative, building clarity and alignment and strengthening how Clinical colleagues connect to strategy, culture and performance expectations. It will lead the planning and execution of integrated communication programs that our strategic priorities to life and elevate the employee experience across a complex, fast-moving, and highly matrixed organization.

This role is ideal for an experienced communications leader who blends business acumen, creative storytelling, executive advising, change leadership and digital fluency and who thrives at the intersection of strategy, culture and execution.

• Build and own the annual integrated communications strategy for the Clinical business inclusive of strategic priorities, and employee engagement initiatives and associated metrics to demonstrate activation and impact.
• Determine appropriate internal communications cadence and employee activation initiatives to drive engagement not limited to Town Halls and other potential communication vehicles that connect leaders to our employees in meaningful and impactful ways.
• Create and manage a comprehensive Clinical communications calendar, ensuring alignment across business priorities, global initiatives, and employee engagement needs.
• Develop high quality content - emails, scripts, talking points, presentations, video briefs, toolkits - that is clear, concise, and compelling.
• Serve as the primary communications advisor to the COO and Clinical Leadership team, partnering closely on message development, communication moments, and leader engagement.
• Champion communication excellence and alignment across the Clinical leadership ecosystem.
• Coach and support Clinical senior leaders in delivering compelling, clear and confident communication aligned to organizational priorities.
• Build dashboards and analytics mechanisms to measure communication reach, sentiment, engagement and action.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to leaders to improve communication effectiveness and employee experience.
• Collaborate closely with Regional Liaisons to ensure global resonance and local relevance of communication programs.
• Operate as a senior integrator across functions (Clinical Development, Corporate Enablers
• Solves complex problems and/or conducts complex analyses.
• Serves as employee communications subject matter expert with executive and senior leaders. Gains support for ideas or positions on difficult issues.
• Anticipates and resolves complex problems. Applies strategic and critical thinking…