Syneos Health
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Sr Site Activation Manager

Pay
$79,800 – $139,600 per year
Location
USA-NC-Morrisville-Hybrid
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
17 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • Site activation and start-up for global clinical trials
  • Regulatory, ethics/IRB, and site activation submissions
  • Country-specific regulatory requirements
  • GCP compliance
  • Risk identification and mitigation

Also useful

  • Mentoring junior team members
  • Process improvement
  • Managing multiple concurrent studies

About the role

Sr Site Activation Manager 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.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape. Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you'll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals.

We are agile and driven to deliver - for one another, our customers,, most importantly, for those in need.

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.

Pay and benefits

Key Responsibilities Lead and manage site activation and start-up activities for global clinical trials, ensuring milestones and timelines are met. Oversee regulatory, ethics/IRB, and site activation submissions across multiple countries and regions. Serve as the primary point of contact for site start-up activities, partnering with sponsors, sites, vendors, and cross-functional teams.

Drive issue resolution and proactively identify and mitigate risks that may impact study timelines. Provide strategic oversight and guidance on country-specific regulatory requirements and start-up processes. Track start-up metrics, study deliverables, and activation performance, ensuring compliance with study objectives. Support and mentor junior team members and contribute to process improvement initiatives.

Ensure compliance with GCP, applicable regulations, and company SOPs. Collaborate with Project Management and Clinical Operations teams to support successful study execution. Manage multiple studies and priorities in a fast-paced global environment. At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance.

We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance.

The benefits for this position may include a company car or car allowance, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, eligibility to participate in Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and individual performance, and flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time.

Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements. Salary Range: $79,800.00 - $139,600.00 The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position.

Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. 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. 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.

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From Syneos Health's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 24, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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Common questions

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The Sr Site Activation Manager posting at Syneos Health states compensation of $79,800 – $139,600 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Syneos Health's official career site.

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