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Syneos Health

Global provider of integrated clinical-to-commercial services

Principal Investigator - Multiple Teams

Clinical Research OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeQuébec City, QC, CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience managing technical and scientific personnel.
  • Demonstrated leadership, service-management, strategic-thinking, and tactical-thinking skills.
  • Extensive knowledge of Good Laboratory Practice guidelines, the European Medicines Agency, and other regulatory requirements.
  • Computer proficiency, especially with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
  • Strong oral and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade.
  • Experience in customer service within a contract laboratory or a pharmaceutical company's central group.
  • Scientific problem-solving skills.
  • Availability to travel as needed, approximately 5%.
  • Extensive understanding and knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organizations, and bioanalysis.
  • Bilingual French and English communication skills, including oral and written communication on technical subjects and the preparation of technical procedures and reports.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, organize, manage, and monitor the activities of the work unit according to the area of expertise, work plan, and organizational needs.
  • Collaborate on workforce planning, hiring, performance-management observations, and daily productivity tracking; facilitate knowledge development and team effectiveness and engagement.
  • Help develop performance-indicator systems for the work unit, analyze established objectives, identify improvement opportunities, and determine actions to streamline efficiency.
  • Monitor and manage assigned project budgets, ensure revenue adherence and recognition, and provide budget follow-up for relevant stakeholders.
  • Communicate the team's work plan, policies, projects, processes, results, and actions to the team and organization.
  • Collaborate with the training team to ensure training is available to team members.
  • Represent the work unit internally and externally for consultation, information, and referrals.
  • Inform internal and external clients about the division's areas of expertise by assessing needs and conducting analyses and follow-up.
  • Participate in regulatory-agency inspections and client audits and in the resulting response process.
  • Serve as the primary client liaison and point of contact for assigned sponsor projects; receive and distribute sponsor information, keep sponsors informed of timelines and milestones, and ensure timely communication for bioanalytical studies.
  • Support business-development activities to grow and maintain relationships with new and existing clients.
  • Act as principal investigator for preclinical and bioanalytical studies.
  • Prepare, review, and/or approve all documents related to assigned projects.
  • Collaborate with business development and the cost-proposal team to prepare submissions for client service requests.
  • Own the technical and regulatory requirements of bioanalytical studies.
  • Lead and participate in the development of new bioanalytical methods when needed.
  • Provide technical expertise to laboratory personnel.
  • Prepare short-term and long-term revenue forecasts.
  • Interact daily with the scientific team and leadership to establish assignment priorities.
  • Review audit reports and observations to maintain a high level of quality and consistency.
  • Monitor corrective and preventive actions.
  • Ensure the proper execution and quality of results analyses.
  • Participate in problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Participate in writing bioanalytical reports and establishing priorities.
  • Ensure compliance and evaluate, identify, and communicate regulatory risks to senior leadership.
  • Participate in harmonizing work methods across divisions, departments, and centers.
  • Participate in writing and revising standard operating procedures.
  • Optimize and implement work procedures and techniques for the team to improve quality.
  • Direct and guide records-management activities within the division.
  • Review data and results before delivery to the client or internally to ensure they meet quality expectations.

About the Company

Syneos Health

Global provider of integrated clinical-to-commercial services

Syneos Health provides end-to-end biopharmaceutical solutions across the clinical-to-commercial spectrum. It helps biopharma companies, healthcare organizations, and investors by offering specialized expertise, insights, and technology-enabled services to move therapies faster to patients. Its offerings include Kinetic, a modern omnichannel customer engagement platform that uses targeting and analytics to coordinate nationwide healthcare communications, and Syneos One, an asset development approach that aligns strategy and execution from early concept through commercialization. The company uses AI and advanced tech to improve performance and reduce risk in drug development and market delivery. Its goal is to be a trusted partner that accelerates therapy development and delivery by combining scientific know-how with integrated, data-driven services.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Morrisville, NC
Founded
1985

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