Description
Syneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success.
As a Senior Pharmacovigilance Operations Specialist - Budget & Proposals, you will participate in opportunity strategy and planning discussions, providing SPVG input into the overall approach and proposed solution.
Job Responsibilities
1. Opportunity Strategy & Solution Development
- Participate in opportunity strategy and planning discussions, providing SPVG input into the overall approach and proposed solution.
- Review RFPs, RFIs and other client requirements to identify required SPVG services, assumptions, dependencies, risks and areas requiring clarification.
- Work with SPVG leadership, operational teams and subject matter experts to develop client-specific solutions and delivery models that address opportunity requirements.
- Coordinate input across relevant SPVG service areas to ensure proposed solutions are integrated, practical and operationally deliverable.
- Support identification of appropriate SPVG capabilities, expertise and team members for inclusion within proposals and client presentations.
2. Proposal Development & Coordination
- Lead or coordinate development of the SPVG components of RFPs, RFIs and other proposal responses, ensuring content is accurate, complete, consistent and aligned with the proposed delivery model.
- Solicit and consolidate input from SPVG operational teams, leadership and subject matter experts, working with Proposal Management and other functions to meet required submission timelines.
- Develop and review SPVG scopes of work, assumptions, responsibilities, service descriptions and supporting proposal materials.
- Coordinate responses to client clarification and due-diligence questions relating to SPVG services.
- Ensure appropriate alignment between proposal content, scope, resourcing assumptions, budget and client requirements.
3. Budgeting, Costing & Commercial Support
- Develop and review SPVG budgets and costing assumptions, working with operational teams to ensure that proposed resource models reflect the anticipated scope and delivery requirements.
- Support achievement of SPVG financial and profitability objectives by helping to ensure proposed solutions are appropriately scoped, resourced and costed.
- Support development of commercially competitive solutions while maintaining operational feasibility, service quality and alignment with client requirements.
- Support assessment of changes in scope and associated budget implications in collaboration with Contracts, Project Management and other relevant stakeholders.
- Use historical delivery experience and available operational information to support continuous improvement of costing and resource assumptions.
4. Client Presentations, Bid Defence & Contracting
- Support preparation for bid defence meetings and other client-facing discussions, including development of SPVG presentation materials, key messages and responses to anticipated client questions.
- Participate in client meetings and bid defences as required, working alongside SPVG operational and functional representatives to communicate and support the proposed solution.
- Coordinate SPVG input into post-proposal clarifications and negotiations, including assessment of requested changes to scope, assumptions, responsibilities and delivery models.
- Support review of relevant scope-of-work and contractual content to help ensure alignment with the solution agreed during the proposal process.
5. Award & Operational Handover
- Facilitate the effective transition of awarded opportunities from the pre-award environment to the SPVG operational delivery team.
- Participate in project handover activities, ensuring the operational team has a clear understanding of the agreed scope, delivery model, key assumptions, responsibilities, dependencies and client requirements.
- Identify and communicate material changes made during proposal development, client discussions or contracting that could affect subsequent delivery.
- Support resolution of outstanding scope or solution questions during transition to the operational team, helping to maintain continuity between the proposed solution and operational delivery.
6. Pre-Award Content & Continuous Improvement
- Develop, maintain and periodically review SPVG proposal templates, standard text, presentation materials and other pre-award resources.
- Work with SPVG subject matter experts to maintain and enhance proposal content, incorporating developments in services, delivery approaches, processes and technologies as appropriate.
- Support ongoing review and improvement of SPVG estimating and costing approaches using available operational experience and lessons learned.
- Identify recurring proposal issues, gaps and lessons learned and contribute to improvements in pre-award processes, tools and ways of working.
- Promote consistency in how SPVG services are described, scoped, resourced and costed, whilst allowing flexibility to address individual client requirements.
- Share knowledge and lessons learned across the wider SPVG organisation to improve the efficiency, consistency and quality of future proposals.
Overall Role Contribution:
The Pre-Award Team Member provides an important connection between client requirements, SPVG operational expertise and the commercial proposal process, helping to ensure alignment throughout the opportunity lifecycle:
Client Requirements → Solution → Scope → Resourcing → Budget → Proposal → Agreement → Operational Handover
The role helps ensure that proposed SPVG solutions are client-focused, commercially appropriate and operationally deliverable, while supporting a smooth transition from opportunity development into project delivery.