Associate Director Epidemiology RWE

Assoc Dir, Epidemiology RWE - PHD Required (UK and CAN only)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
 
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 deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
 
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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 building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

• Must be located in Canada or UK with no sponsorship needs to be considered for this role.
• PHD Required

Position Purpose:

The RWE/Epi AD provides day-to-day operational and technical support for RWE/Epidemiology studies. This includes maintaining study documentation, supporting literature searches, performing code look-up and basic data QC, managing requests from study teams, and ensuring timely execution of assigned tasks.

• Compile and maintain study trackers, publication trackers, and other operational documentation
• Conduct simple or rapid literature searches and support references; does not perform in-depth literature reviews
• Perform code lookup and basic data quality checks to support rapid reviews and ensure data completeness and accuracy
• Executes assigned tasks to support milestone readiness (e.g., publication packages, data summaries)
• Supports meeting preparation and follow-up documentation
• Handles urgent / ad hoc requests from study teams and functional leads
• Flags operational risks, delays, or inconsistencies to the Senior Manager / Pfizer Lead
• Supports inspection and audit readiness activities as assigned
• Assist with development of analysis planning documents and table shells, and collaborate closely with programmers

Qualifications

Training and Education Preferred:

• PHD Required

Prior Experience Preferred: 

• Experience in epidemiology or a related field within industry
• Experience in study operations  
• Experience working in a matrixed team environment
• Experience supporting documentation, trackers, literature searches, or QC tasks 

Skills:

• Experience supporting operational or technical tasks in research, epidemiology, or RWE settings
• Experience with documentation, trackers, literature searches, and basic data QC
• Demonstrated ability to work within matrix or vendor environments
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong organizational, communication, and documentation skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with defined deadlines
• Ability to flag operational risks or issues

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description.  The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms.  Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.