# Exec Director, Opportunity Strategy Architect

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: GBR-Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**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.

**Candidate Profile:** The ideal candidate is a clinical development strategist who brings intellectual curiosity, commercial judgment, operational credibility, data literacy, and the ability to challenge conventional thinking constructively. They should be able to move across client strategy, clinical trial execution, evidence, patient access, proposal strategy, and delivery risk.

**Professional Qualifications:**

- 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.

**Personal Characteristics:**

- Relentlessly curious and willing to ask obvious questions that others skip.

- Comfortable saying, "Help me understand why we are going against the data."

- Pragmatic and commercially minded; not academic for the sake of being academic.

- Able to challenge with respect, precision, and calm confidence.

- Uses sound judgment, intellectual honesty, and constructive influence; remains open to being wrong when the evidence shifts.

- Able to operate with incomplete information and still land a clear recommendation.

- Strong storyteller who can connect data, client intent, and execution reality.

- Not attached to legacy ways of working or standard proposal answers.

- Strong written and verbal communicator with senior stakeholder presence.

## 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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