Dir, Compensation Infrastructure & Analytics

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 RESPONSIBILITIES

Compensation Operations & Structures

• Owns the Global Salary Structure (GSS) — range governance, annual update cycle, zone/geo structure design, and approval process across all markets.

• Leads market pricing strategy and Payfactors alignment, ensuring parity and competitiveness across all areas of the business. Analyzes data for market trends.

• Oversees job architecture and job catalog consistency — career framework development, global job matching, grade alignment, and job code governance.

• Establishes process governance: Delegation of Authority (DOA), promotion criteria, SOPs, and templates to reduce manual work and process variation.

Pay Equity & Compliance

• Conducts extensive pay equity analyses using Syndio to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations, proactively identifying and addressing pay gaps organization-wide.

• Drives EU Pay Transparency Directive compliance — country documentation, reporting readiness, comparator methodology, and Legal liaison.

• Supports country-specific regulatory compliance including India Labour Code compensation restructuring and DOA/policy governance.

Data Analysis & Executive Reporting

• Demonstrates a passion for continuous learning and curiosity around emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence, proactively exploring how AI tools and insights might be integrated into total rewards strategies. Champions experimentation and knowledge sharing to uncover new ways AI can empower more data-driven, personalized, and agile compensation solutions.

• Oversees the development and maintenance of sophisticated compensation models to assist in budgeting and planning cycles. Creates models that show the impact of various pay scenarios and how they affect different parts of the organization.

• Delivers compensation analytics for CEO, Board, and CHRO — comp ratios, workforce cost analysis, scenario modeling (merit, bonus, FLC), dashboards, and rewards statements.

• Prepares regular and ad hoc compensation analyses, dashboards, and reports for senior leadership, tailored to the needs of diverse Business Units and Functions.

• Works with the reporting team to ensure reports meet compensation needs for both standard and ad hoc reporting across all functions.

Team Leadership

• Performs line management responsibilities, including professional development, performance appraisals, and employee counseling for analyst staff. Assigns project work and reviews workload for all direct reports. Manages staff by establishing goals to increase knowledge and skill levels and by delegating tasks commensurate with skill level.

• Directly manages a team of 2–4 analysts globally, with potential dotted-line oversight of additional analysts supporting cross-functional work.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• BA/BS degree, preferably in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or related field

• Ten (10) years of related experience in global compensation operations, analytics, or systems with two (2) years management experience

• Strong experience with market pricing tools (Payfactors, Mercer, Radford, or equivalent) and salary structure design

• Demonstrated ability to lead pay equity analysis and regulatory compliance programs

• Syndio or similar pay equity platform experience (preferred)

• Experience in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, or CRO industry (preferred)

• Experience managing globally distributed teams, including offshore analyst teams (preferred)

• Experience supporting PE-backed or IPO-readiness environments (preferred)

• Excellent leadership skills

• Strong MS Office skills with advanced Excel skills, preferably Power BI skills

• Ability to identify creative solutions and implement with minimal direction

• Professionalism and effective ability to manage confidential information

• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

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.
 

http://www.syneoshealth.com

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.