About this Principal HR Project Manager role at Syneos Health
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Job Responsabilities
• Lead complex, cross-functional HR programs and initiatives from initiation through implementation, ensuring delivery against scope, timeline, quality expectations, and intended business outcomes.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and informed decision-making by synthesizing inputs, framing risks and trade-offs, and influencing senior leaders and cross-functional teams to move initiatives from discussion to action.
• Lead the full project lifecycle across multiple concurrent initiatives and portfolios of work, establishing governance, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring disciplined execution and reporting.
• Develop clear, concise executive communications, including status updates, risk summaries, recommendations, and decision frameworks that translate complex information into actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and scale processes and enhance project management methodologies, tools, technologies, and governance practices across HR.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and program leader, bringing structure, clarity, and execution discipline to complex, ambiguous, and high-visibility initiatives.
Job Requirements
• 5-8 years of progressive experience leading complex programs and projects, preferably within Human Resources, People Operations, or other corporate functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholder groups and senior leaders.
• Demonstrated experience in working with Work Councils
• Exceptional project and program management, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, navigate ambiguity, and drive decisions in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• PMP certification preferred
• Broad understanding of HR functions and operating models preferred.
• Strong experience preferred in one or more relevant domains: Employee Relations/Workforce Transitions, HRIS/Workday-enabled processes.
• Experience using project and portfolio management tools, including Smartsheet preferred.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.
No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
Additional Information
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.
