Associate Director, Early Talent

Associate Director, Early Talent 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 • Build the capability from the ground up - Define the early talent operating model, governance, processes, technology needs, partner ecosystem and implementation roadmap. • Create the global framework - Establish consistent principles, program standards and candidate experiences that can be adapted to local talent markets, regulations and business requirements. • Shape the portfolio - Build internship, graduate, apprenticeship and other early-career pathways aligned with workforce plans, future skills and growth priorities. Assess and optimize the existing portfolio, including opportunities to consolidate duplicative campus recruiting, university partnerships and marketing efforts, and evaluate programs that may no longer have the ROI or strategic fit. • Build the campus ecosystem - Identify priority institutions and develop trusted relationships with university leaders, placement teams, faculty, student bodies and relevant academic networks. • Build the early talent brand - Create a differentiated proposition and lead year-round campus campaigns, content, pre-placement engagements and build engagement initiatives.