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 SUMMARY

The Project Associate supports governance, reporting, and operational activities across the Clinical Future Operating Model Portfolio, ensuring initiatives operate consistently within established governance frameworks and delivery expectations.

This role works closely with Project Managers and portfolio leadership to coordinate reporting, governance cadence, RAID management, portfolio tracking, and operational processes that support delivery and value realisation across a large transformation portfolio.

The role enables delivery teams to remain focused on execution by reducing non-delivery workload currently absorbed within delivery resources.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Support governance cadence across portfolio, program, and project forums Coordinate reporting updates and ensure governance materials are complete and submission-ready Maintain reporting quality and consistency across initiatives Support portfolio-level reporting consolidation and tracking Support portfolio reporting and tracking activities aligned to delivery and savings objectives Maintain and coordinate Portfolio and Program RAID logs, action logs, and dependency tracking Follow up with PMs and stakeholders on overdue actions, risks, and reporting updates Support preparation of decision-ready governance materials Support maintenance and administration of Smartsheet and or other portfolio artifacts Assist with updates to executive summaries, governance dashboards, KPIs, and portfolio tracking Ensure alignment between portfolio reporting artifacts and system of record requirements Support process mapping, documentation, and governance activities aligned to portfolio initiatives Coordinate cross-functional meetings and governance forums Track decisions, actions, and follow-up activities Support prioritisation and governance activities across portfolio initiatives Support onboarding of new PMs and project teams into governance ways of working Assist PMs with portfolio processes, templates, and governance adherence Support implementation and continuous improvement of portfolio governance and delivery ways of working Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

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.
 

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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.