Global Compensation Lead

Global Compensation Lead

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.  

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

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 our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

 

Job Responsibilities

About the Role

We are seeking an inspiring, future-focused Global Compensation Lead to champion and operationalize a world-class compensation strategy for a complex, rapidly evolving people-services organization. Because our business outcomes directly depend on how we attract, retain, and deploy talent, compensation plays a central role in our business economics—and this leader will be at the center of shaping that impact.

This role is ideal for a builder and a strategist: someone who brings both big-picture vision and deep hands-on expertise; someone who thrives in a dynamic environment of change; and someone energized by the opportunity to elevate compensation as a core driver of operational excellence and financial performance.

As a senior leader within Global Total Rewards & Performance, you will oversee compensation strategy, detailed design, governance, and the end-to-end execution of programs across a diverse, global workforce. This includes partnering deeply with business leaders and HR Business Partners to ensure our compensation philosophy and practices reflect our values, market realities, and the economics of a global people-services model.

What You’ll Lead

Compensation Strategy & Design

• Develop and deliver a global compensation strategy that reflects the realities of a people-services business—where talent is our product, our differentiator, and our core economic engine.
• Build and manage compensation frameworks, job architecture, salary structures, pay-for-performance programs, and governance models across 60 countries – 12 core countries which employ 85% of our team.
• Apply AI, automation, and predictive analytics to improve modeling, scenario planning, pay transparency, and scalability.
• Ensure compensation programs support growth across diverse business units—clinical operations, corporate functions, commercial divisions, consulting teams, and a media/communications agency.

Manager Capability & Business Education

• Design and deliver a global manager education strategy that raises the capability of people leaders at all levels.
• Train managers to understand the fundamentals of business economics in a people-services organization—how compensation decisions directly influence revenue, margin, utilization, and overall organizational performance.
• Develop simple, scalable tools and learning materials that help managers make consistent, informed, financially sound compensation decisions.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to embed strong compensation literacy into leadership development, talent processes, and manager onboarding.

Execution & Governance

• Oversee the end-to-end execution of global annual compensation cycles with precision, transparency, and operational excellence.
• Strengthen governance and decision frameworks to ensure consistency and equity, responsible risk management, and alignment with global and local regulations.
• Implement streamlined processes that drive global harmonization while respecting local market and regulatory requirements.

Leadership & Partnership

• Present and communicate strategic compensation recommendations to the CHRO, CFO and CEO, effectively influence decision-making, and translate executive ideas into actionable compensation initiatives aligned with organizational goals.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global compensation team of partners and analysts.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders across clinical, corporate, commercial, and consulting units.
• Partner closely with HR Business Partners to embed compensation strategy into broader talent and organizational initiatives.
• Manage vendor relationships to support global benchmarking, job evaluation, specialized analytics, and cycle management.

Change Leadership

• Drive compensation transformation across the enterprise, especially in the context of modernization, global harmonization, and digital/AI enablement.
• Lead the organization through evolving market realities, shifting talent landscapes, and the increasing complexity of global labor markets.
• Champion simplicity, transparency, and a data-driven approach, helping the business make informed trade-offs in a resource-conscious environment.

What You Bring

• 10–15+ years of progressive compensation leadership experience in a global, matrixed, people-services or professional services organization (CRO, life sciences, consulting, or similar strongly preferred).
• Proven success developing and scaling compensation strategies across the US, India, and multiple international markets.
• Experience training and uplifting people managers in compensation fundamentals and business economics.
• A track record of building and leading high-performing global teams.
• Deep expertise in compensation design, job architecture, benchmarking, pay governance, and compensation cycle execution.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale transformation or global harmonization initiatives.
• Strong partnership skills and executive presence—able to influence, simplify complexity, and tell a compelling story with data.
• Curiosity and comfort with AI, automation, and emerging digital tools in the rewards space.
• A mindset grounded in excellence, continuous improvement, agility, and impact.

Why Join Us

• Lead compensation for a global, high-growth people-services enterprise where your work directly influences business performance and long-term value creation.
• Shape the compensation philosophy and infrastructure for 30,000+ employees across 60 countries.
• Build manager capability and elevate compensation literacy across the organization.
• Drive innovation and help define the future of AI-enabled compensation practices.

Join a collaborative, forward-thinking Total Rewards team focused on delivering excellence with simplicity, transparenc

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:

$173,600.00 - $312,400.00

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.  

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.