Senior Consultant - R&D Advisory

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Updated: June 9, 2026
Location: Remote, India
Job ID: 12122

 

 

 

Description

You are the first to roll up your sleeves and work with relentless energy until you solve the unsolvable, beat the unbeatable, and always come out on top.

In this role, you will join the R&D Advisory Group within Syneos Health Consulting, where you will help make life science R&D organizations and operations more efficient and effective across research, clinical, regulatory, quality, and pharmacovigilance. In particular, you will help organizations during times of change, whether driven by a shift in operating model, strategy, processes, technology, or a combination of these. You will:

  • Work with senior customer stakeholders to understand business goals, processes, operations, and expectations
  • Develop customer proposals demonstrating a clear understanding of needs, objectives, approach, solution, and commercial construct
  • Develop engagement strategies and plans and present findings and recommendations to stakeholders
  • Conduct quality management oversight of project deliverables
  • Develop content to support business development opportunities with prospective customers
  • Actively build customer networks through social media, seminars, conferences, and referrals

Essential Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or business
  • Experience in consulting management within life sciences, pharmaceutical/biotech consulting, or an equivalent industry role
  • Experience with methods and tools for eliciting, documenting, and managing epics, use cases, user requirements, and user stories
  • Experience facilitating user workshops to elicit and document requirements, including scope and expectation management
  • Experience using tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps (ADO) to capture, groom, and manage backlogs
  • Experience creating UAT scripts and supporting users during execution
  • Regulatory Operations knowledge, including processes and applications used in tracking (RIMS), composite document creation, publishing, and submissions management
  • Regulatory Intelligence knowledge, including processes and applications used for capture, curation, dissemination, and use of regulatory intelligence at trial and submission levels

Desired Requirements:

  • Master’s degree in life sciences or business

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health? Here, you're a part of the big picture. You will collaborate with colleagues across clinical and commercial disciplines to guide premarket development through post-market commercial strategy. Every project is a chance to solve a new challenge, learn from your colleagues, and advance your career. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

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Disclaimer: 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..

 




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