Research Associate, Info Acces
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
The Research Associate, InfoAccess will support research and insight generation across a broad range of healthcare and life sciences topics, including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, therapeutic areas, clinical development activity, competitive intelligence, market trends, funding events, conference outputs, and strategic account priorities.
Key responsibilities include:
Conducting high-quality secondary research using internal and external information sources.
Supporting the development of company profiles, therapeutic area overviews, pipeline summaries, competitive landscapes, market intelligence outputs, and slide-ready research content.
Reviewing and synthesising information from public sources, subscribed databases, news alerts, conference materials, earnings releases, analyst commentary, and internal knowledge repositories.
Preparing clear, concise, and well-structured research summaries, tables, briefings, and written outputs for internal stakeholders.
Supporting business development, proposal, account planning, and strategic intelligence requests across Pharma, Biotech, MedTech, and CRO sectors.
Tracking relevant industry developments, including clinical milestones, partnerships, funding activity, regulatory updates, competitor activity, and market trends.
Maintaining accuracy, consistency, and source traceability across research outputs.
Collaborating with members of the InfoAccess and Business Insights teams to prioritise requests, manage deadlines, and ensure outputs meet stakeholder requirements.
The role requires strong analytical capability, attention to detail, written communication skills, and the ability to work across multiple research requests in a fast-paced environment. Knowledge of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical research, or healthcare sector would be advantageous.
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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.
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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.
Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.
We bring together a talented team of professionals with a deep understanding of patient and physician behaviors and market dynamics.
Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients.
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