Associate Director, Solution Design

Syneos Health; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical solutions organization in London is seeking a professional to manage strategic solution development. You will work closely with key stakeholders to ensure comprehensive proposals are created for clients. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in the Lifesciences industry, strong communication skills, and proficiency in MS Office. This role offers the chance to contribute to significant projects in a dynamic setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant working experience in the Lifesciences industry or consulting.
• 4+ years Program and Project Management experience in matrixed organizations.
• Management consulting or services company experience (e.g., CRO, CCO).

Responsibilities

• Create the initial solution design and approach for prospective clients.
• Partner with BD to align on proposed solutions to customers.
• Support existing customer programs to analyze current states and provide insights.

Skills

Excellent communications and people management skills

Ability to handle ambiguity and multiple concurrent assignments

Proficiency in MS Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related field of study

Job description

Updated: October 31, 2025
Location: London, ENG, United Kingdom
Job ID:12408

Solution Design is responsible for managing the strategic solution development process for customer proposals and ensuring there is integration both within and across functions and business units.

This role will work closely with the VP, Solution Design, Business Development Generalists & Specialists to ensure opportunities go through assessment and business optimization review for quality control and deliver an integrated bespoke proposal that will be created for the customer.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Works with the Leadership, Business Development and other key members across the Syneos organization to create the initial solution design, approach and the various follow-up actions needed to bridge prospective clients from an initial solution presentation to sold (i.e. awarded) work.
• Partner with BD to align on proposed solution to customer.
• Works with different stakeholder groups both within the Deployment Solutions team and across the greater Syneos Health organization
• Clearly communicate communicating with internal partners all relevant and necessary information (including opportunity approach) to design an initial solution.
• Checks work throughout the solution development process, asking critical questions where necessary to ensure the solution is integrated, is aligned with the approach, and meets the client needs.
• Determines the approach for leading any follow-up activities that bridge to sold (i.e., awarded) work. As these activities can vary greatly in complexity and effort, the SD must be comfortable working through ambiguity.
• Keeps all key stakeholders updated on the opportunity status, including client decision timing and outstanding actions.
• Support existing customer programs to analyze current state and provide insights on how to evolve based on customers’ business needs

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field of study.
• Minimum 5 years of relevantworking experience in the Lifesciences industry or consulting
• 4+ years Program and Project Management experience in matrixed organizations
• Management consulting or services company experience (e.g., CRO, CCO)
• Excellent communications and people management skills
• Proficiency in MS Office suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Ability to handle ambiguity and multiple concurrent assignments
• The drive for self-development, the ability to collaborate, and an action-oriented work ethic

Why Syneos Health?

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? We partner with industry experts to solve and execute against today’s toughest commercialization challenges facing the world’s leading healthcare companies. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities on our Commercial Operations and Leadership teams. 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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