Assoc Dir, Pricing Strategy

**Description**

Syneos Health is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization purpose-built to accelerate customer success. We lead with a product development mindset, seamlessly connecting our capabilities to add high-value insights to speed therapies to patients and provide practical value to help our customers achieve their objectives.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

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 accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

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.

**Position**: Associate Director, Pricing Strategy

**Summary**:
Plays a key role in shaping the objectives of the pricing organization, charged with developing new and innovative pricing models to support the business. Collects and interprets multiple types of financial and operational data to support the Company’s pricing strategy across portfolio of new business. Builds detailed financial models that leverage internal systems to support the operational business units and executive management in pricing and partnership decisions.

**Essential Functions**:
1. Collaborates with Business Development, Proposals, and Therapeutic Business Units to develop tailored pricing solutions for key customers.

2. Develops presentations that clearly articulate strategy to internal and external stakeholders.

3. Develops high quality projections models that incorporate complex financial and operational data to support pricing strategy and decision making.

4. Produces high quality reporting and analysis to management, as well as ad hoc analyses and reports as directed.

5. Tracks CRO industry trends to ensure the Company is positioned as the leader in developing and executing innovative partnerships.

6. Analyzes strategic partnership opportunities with potential clinical development partners as well as ad-hoc partnership opportunities with other partners including service providers and research institutions.

7. Attends customer meetings when necessary to present partnership strategy.

8. Manages monthly updates to financial forecasts and metrics to support management’s timely visibility to changing business trends.

9. Responsible for continuous improvement of analysis and reporting processes and tools, to enhance quality, clarity, and timeliness of output. Works with Finance, Information Technology, and other functions to address related issues and potential system enhancements.

**Other Responsibilities**:
**Travel may be required** (up to 25%).

**Qualifications**

**Qualifications**:

- BS degree in a business, finance, accounting, economics or health sciences related field, or equivalent education and experience. Advanced degree in business or health sciences field preferred.
- Project Management experience or previous **pricing/budgeting experience in the CRO industry highly preferred**.
- Working knowledge of medical terminology, clinical data, and ICH/Good Clinical Practices.
- Highly capable **excel skills** with experience building consolidated income statements, balance sheets, cash flow analysis.
- **Strong presentation skills **and highly proficient in **Microsoft PowerPoint**.
- Basic understanding of corporate accounting.
- Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, organizational, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
- Excellent financial, communication, and interpersonal skills as well as a high level of personal motivation to achieve.
- Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines is necessary.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; Skilled at presenting scientific content.

**Get to know Syneos Health**

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