# Opportunity Strategy Architect

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: USA-NC-Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $173,600.00 - $312,400.00
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is building an Analytics Center of Excellence to improve how data, clinical insight, real-world evidence, feasibility, patient access, site strategy, and operational experience are brought into pre-award decision-making. The Opportunity Strategy Architect is the role that forces the organization to ask better questions before the proposal strategy is set.

**The Role:** The Opportunity Strategy Architect is assigned to high-value or strategically important opportunities to assess, qualify, and shape the strategy before proposal and bid defense decisions are locked. The role must be constructively challenging, evidence-based, and commercially practical.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead structured opportunity interrogation for assigned Category 3/4/5 or strategically important opportunities.

- Ask simple but powerful questions about client intent, asset strategy, protocol purpose, competitive context, current vendor dynamics, and what the client is really trying to achieve.

- Pressure-test whether the protocol, enrollment assumptions, country/site mix, patient access plan, recruitment/retention approach, and delivery model are credible.

- Identify what data and analytics are needed to support or challenge the proposed strategy.

- Partner with data science, RWD analytics, RWE methods, feasibility, recruitment/retention, patient access, site intelligence, integrated solutions, pricing, proposal teams, BD, DSDs, and therapeutic leaders.

- Translate insights into an opportunity diagnostic: client intent, asset objective, assumptions, risk hypotheses, data needs, recommended strategy, solution implications, and bid-defense win themes.

- Influence or escalate through agreed governance when the team is ignoring data, overclaiming evidence, or defaulting to a weak or traditional strategy.

- Support proposal and bid-defense teams by clarifying the differentiated story, likely objections, and data-backed proof points.

- Document assumptions and hand off strategy, risks, and mitigation logic to delivery if the opportunity is awarded.

**Requirements:**

- 10-15+ years of relevant experience in clinical development strategy, CRO strategic solutions, clinical operations strategy, portfolio/asset strategy, strategic feasibility, RWE strategy, trial innovation, bid defense strategy, or life sciences consulting.

- Strong understanding of how clinical trials are designed, scoped, bid, awarded, operationalized, and delivered.

- Experience supporting RFPs, RFIs, bid defenses, strategic account opportunities, complex proposals, or clinical trial advisory work.

- Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions and influence cross-functional teams in complex, time-sensitive environments.

- Experience using data and analytics to shape strategy; direct data science expertise is not required, but data literacy and skepticism are essential.

**Benefits:** The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

**Salary Range:** $173,600.00 - $312,400.00

## Skills

### Required
- clinical development strategy
- CRO strategic solutions
- clinical operations strategy
- portfolio/asset strategy
- strategic feasibility
- RWE strategy
- trial innovation
- bid defense strategy
- life sciences consulting

### Nice to have
- feasibility
- enrollment modeling
- site/country selection
- patient access
- recruitment/retention strategy
- RWD/RWE
- decentralized trial solutions
- competitive trial intelligence

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