Research Associate, Business Insights

Research Associate, Business Insights

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.
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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

As part of the company’s strategic research and Business Insights function, the Research Associate role provides intelligence support to internal teams, customers, and stakeholders across client billable projects, business development initiatives, strategic account planning, competitive intelligence reporting, and Thought Leadership publications. Applies drug development knowledge, particularly the clinical trial process, regulatory pathways, and commercialisation strategy, to synthesise complex secondary research into structured, decision-ready insights. Translates scientific, clinical, and financial information into clear business implications that support revenue growth and strategic positioning for Syneos Health.

Core Responsibilities

• Conduct structured secondary research using subscribed intelligence platforms, regulatory databases, clinical trial registries, investor communications, financial disclosures, and publicly available data sources.

• Synthesise multi-source data into executive-ready outputs including competitive intelligence briefs, earnings analyses, strategic account summaries, pipeline tracking reports, and landscape assessments.

• Support proposal development and bid defences with high-precision, rapid-turnaround research.

• Interpret clinical development data including phase progression, endpoints, regulatory pathways, and modality differentiation.

• Identify strategic inflection points such as funding events, portfolio reprioritisation, partnership activity, workforce shifts, and geographic expansion.

• Leverage AI-enabled research tools responsibly while maintaining rigorous validation standards.

• Contribute to internal knowledge systems, workflow optimisation, and research automation initiatives.

• Collaborate across teams while managing multiple concurrent priorities in a deadline-driven environment.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, healthcare, pharmacy, biotechnology, or related scientific field required. Advanced degree preferred.

Experience: 1–3 years of experience within CRO, pharmaceutical, biotech, consulting, or strategic research environment preferred.Additional Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to synthesise complex information into structured deliverables.

• Foundational understanding of drug development lifecycle and regulatory frameworks.

• Experience within therapeutic areas or specialised healthcare functions preferred.

• Ability to translate scientific information into commercially relevant insights.

• Experience leveraging AI-enabled research tools and supporting knowledge automation welcomed.

• Exposure to building or supporting internal knowledge agents welcomed.

• Fluency in additional languages considered an advantage.

• Strong Microsoft Office skills.

Critical Skills

• Structured analytical thinking

• Clinical and pipeline interpretation

• Competitive intelligence development

• Scientific-to-commercial translation

• Executive-level written communication

• AI-assisted research validation

• Time management under pressure

• Cross-functional collaboration

Disclaimer

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed are not exhaustive. The Company may assign other responsibilities as required. Equivalent experience and education may be considered. Nothing herein creates an employment contract. The Company complies with all applicable employment legislation and equal opportunity standards.

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.