Dir, Organization Design

Dir, Organization Design

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 Director of Organization Development (OD) leads the OD team, part of the Org Effectiveness & Change center of excellence within HR and serves as an internal consultant. This role oversees and/or leads key strategic initiatives in partnership with business executives and HR Business Partners in the areas of organization analysis, organization design, operating model design and team effectiveness.

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Partnership
• Serves as an enterprise thought leader on organizational development, staying up to date on industry trends and leveraging external network to bring new solutions and/or enhance existing OD tools.
• Partners closely with senior leaders, Corporate Strategy, HRBPs, Finance BPs to translate business strategy into effective organizational solutions.
• Leads assessments to identify organizational gaps and design customized interventions.
• Translates organizational goals into measurable org effectiveness interventions that drive sustained impact.

Organization Effectiveness
• Develops and oversees OE initiatives, including org analysis, org & role design, operating model design, strategy alignment and culture transformations.
• Designs organizations and operating models for future success by creating and assessing options, creating phases/interim designs that take current context into account, facilitating a participative process to gain buy-in and decision, and creating plans to bridge from design to implementation.
• Serves as an internal OE consultant to senior teams; may design and deliver leadership development sessions and strategic alignment workshops.
• Ensures all OD solutions are scalable, evidence-based, and anchored in business priorities.

People Leadership
• Leads, develops, and inspires a small, high-performing team of OD professionals.

• Works across the matrix within the OEC team to align resources to work to support high quality execution and team member growth and development.
• Sets clear goals, establishes accountability, and promotes continuous growth and innovation within the team.
• Fosters a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and high performance.

Critical Skills

• Determines appropriate analysis techniques and leads completion of analyses to determine business unit structures and/or programs that need to be changed and/or implemented to increase organizational effectiveness and meet business goals.

• Synthesizes complex concepts and data into digestible, actionable insights and recommendations.

• Understands interdependencies within an organization and accounts for them in plans and recommendations.

• Manages a portfolio of projects, defining milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and risks and ensuring on-time, high quality delivery.

• Leans into difficult conversations and productively works through conflicting viewpoints to advance an idea or project.

Key Behaviors

• Proactively solves challenges and mitigates risks .

• Sets clear expectations with stakeholders and consistently delivers.

• Effectively collaborates with partners.

• Seeks various perspectives to create better results.

• Proactively c ommunicates clearly and often.

• Aligns cross-functional partners and manages conflicts constructively to improve collective results.

• Shows up prepared, engaged and with solutions.

• Clarifies team priorities , scope and trade-offs and removes barriers.

• Provides timely, specific, performance-based recognition and rewards to motivate and energize teams.

Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree preferred.

• Expert knowledge of organizational and cultural awareness.

• Expert ability to extract insights from data with demonstrated analytical mind set.
• Expert ability to communicate complex concepts clearly in both verbal and written form across all levels of the organization.
• Expert ability to use facts, expertise and persuasive techniques to influence others, adapting own style for the audience, particularly senior HR and Business leaders.
• Expert ability to prioritize, organize and manage multiple projects.
• Expert ability to adapt style and collaborate effectively to get things done in a dynamic matrix environment. Develops recommendations to sell ideas or services. Frequently advises others on complex matters.
• Strong learning agility and business acumen.
• Proven track record in managing organizational development projects in a global environment, with both local and geographically dispersed teams.
• Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office.

At  Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.  Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Salary Range:

$118,700.00 - $207,800.00

The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

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.

Summary

The Director of Organization Development (OD) leads the OD team, part of the Org Effectiveness & Change center of excellence within HR and serves as an internal consultant. This role oversees and/or leads key strategic initiatives in partnership with business executives and HR Business Partners in the areas of organization analysis, organization design, operating model design and team effectiveness.