Assoc Dir, Ssu Regulatory

**Description****Associate Director, Site Start-Up & Regulatory**Come discover what our 25,000+ employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We’re a growing and evolving biopharmaceutical industry leader, which means you’ll have endless opportunities to work with experts around the world and build the career you’ve dreamed of.As a part of the Syneos Health team, you’ll help us deliver results for a rewarding reason - we improve patients’ lives around the world. Because to us, a patient isn’t just a number, they’re our family, friends, and neighbors.**Why Syneos Health**- #SyneosHealthLife means we’re committed to our Total Self culture - where everyone can authentically be themselves. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we know every person’s unique contributions make a difference.- We believe our success is a direct result of the people who are driving it - you We value your dedication to care for our customers and patients, so we want to focus on taking care of you. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits program encompassing your total health - physical, mental and financial.- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.**Job responsibilities**- May oversees people management activities including interviewing and selection, terminations, professional development, performance appraisals, job description preparation, and employee counseling.- Ability to mentor and coach managers and supports team managers on all administrative or departmental activities.- Facilitates processes, resourcing, and communications within a department, across departments, or within the country assigned. Acts as liaison and facilitator between customer leaders and senior management for related tasks and/or issues. Plans and negotiates resources with line management of functional areas. Serves as a departmental point of escalation for internal and external customers.- May be responsible & accountable for the effective operations and SSU project deliverables across all regions, within the assigned programs/projects.- May develops and maintains strategic relationships with customers. Collaborates with business leads for business development, alliance management, contracts and proposals development, project management, clinical management, operational personnel, and executive management to achieve project goals. Ensures that individual project targets are met, clients are satisfied, services are provided with the highest quality standards and policies and procedures are followed.- May supports management with site start-up and financial management tasks of projects, as well as strategy development for process improvement. Facilitates and supports project reviews with Clinical Operations staff, focusing on budget, schedule, and risk analysis. Supports reporting of department and team metrics/cycle times and strategies to improve metrics/cycle times Guarantees SSU delivery of assigned projects and/or initiatives.- Involved in reviewing, approving, and presenting prepared information at project or departmental review meetings. Develops and implements training programs for appropriate departmental teams.- Interacts with internal or external Legal Departments and assists with the accurate creation and implementation of contract management workflows or with the contract management group. Identifies and reports on areas of process and contract risk.- Oversees the implementation of customer-required and/or enterprise-wide project management systems and tools. Participates in the development, implementation, and maintenance of enterprise project management systems, acting as a systems manager; may supervise a systems administrator.- Develops requirements for modifications to existing systems, metrics and reports based on input from functional teams. Provides input and requirements for long-range IT plans. Implements Company and/or customer-required project management systems and processes.- Responsible for creating a predictable project experience for both employees and clients alike.- Contributes to and may lead change initiatives across the SSU and Regulatory department.- Develops and implements strategies and tools for tracking metrics/cycle times. Oversees all quality control efforts of individual departmental teams.- Represents the Company at professional meetings or seminars.- Establishes and maintains training materials for assigned area.**Qualifications****What we’re looking for**- Bachelor’s Degree- Experience in managing teams of clinical research employees- Strong leadership skills; ability to teach/mentor team members- Ability to coach employees to reach performance objectives- Ability to recognize and take appropri