Manager, Clinical Operations

Job Description

🏢Company: Syneos Health
📍Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India 🇮🇳
💼Job Type: Full-time 💼
🏢Work Mode: Hybrid 🔄
⏳Experience: Extensive Clinical Research Experience + Leadership Experience 💼
🎓Education: Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, or equivalent related education and experience
💰Expected Salary: ₹6 – ₹10.8 Lakhs Per Year 💰
📊Job Category: Healthcare, Clinical Operations, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Life Sciences 🌐
🌐Website: Website
📞Contact: Contact us

🌟Clinical Trials Don’t Move Forward on Science Alone. They Move Forward on Strong Operations.

Behind every successful clinical study is a team that keeps people, processes, timelines and compliance moving in the same direction.

Syneos Health is looking for a Manager, Clinical Operations in Hyderabad to lead Clinical Operations professionals across activities ranging from site selection and regulatory submissions to site activation, monitoring and study close-out.

This is a leadership role for someone who understands that clinical research management is not simply about tracking deliverables. It’s about building capable teams, managing risk, maintaining quality and ensuring that clinical studies operate within regulatory and customer expectations.

🌟About Syneos Health:
Syneos Health is a fully integrated life sciences services organization supporting customers across the drug development and commercialization continuum.

Its Clinical Solutions teams combine clinical development expertise, operational capabilities and therapeutic knowledge to help customers navigate complex clinical research programs.

The company works across clinical development, commercialization and related life sciences services, giving professionals exposure to global clinical research environments and evolving healthcare delivery models.

💡About the Role:
As Manager, Clinical Operations, you will provide direct leadership and operational oversight to Clinical Operations staff working across areas such as site selection, site contracts, regulatory and ethics submissions, site activation, on-site monitoring, central monitoring and study close-out.

You will manage workloads, staffing, performance, training, quality metrics and operational risks while supporting project and country-level reviews.

The role also involves working with senior management, clinical teams, customers and auditors to identify process gaps, strengthen performance and maintain compliance with GCP/ICH and applicable regulations.

📌Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage Clinical Operations staff, including recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, professional development and employee counselling.
• Review team workloads and resource requirements to ensure clinical studies are appropriately staffed.
• Provide operational guidance on prioritization, performance metrics, quality requirements and contingency planning.
• Oversee clinical trial activities including site selection, regulatory submissions, site activation and monitoring through study close-out.
• Ensure adherence to SOPs, Work Instructions, ICH GCP and applicable federal and local regulations.
• Monitor staff training, documentation, quality metrics and operational performance.
• Identify performance deficiencies and develop training or corrective action plans where required.
• Organize clinical staff meetings and follow up on action items and operational issues.
• Support project and country reviews covering budgets, schedules, risks and performance trends.
• Use operational systems, reports and dashboards to identify process gaps and improve clinical operations.
• Support business development activities and contribute Clinical Operations expertise when required.

🎯Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Nursing or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Extensive experience in clinical research within a CRO, pharmaceutical or biotechnology environment.
• Previous leadership or people-management experience in Clinical Operations.
• Experience managing approximately 15–16 direct reports.
• Strong experience with regulatory and clinical trial startup processes.
• Extensive knowledge of ICH GCP guidelines and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of clinical portfolio management and clinical operations processes.
• Working knowledge of financial concepts related to forecasting and project budgets.
• Strong computer skills and willingness to adopt modern clinical research technologies.
• Ability to travel as required, up to 25%.

🌟Preferred Skills:

• Strong clinical trial operations leadership.
• Excellent regulatory and startup knowledge.
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Change management and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to analyze operational metrics, identify risks and develop practical solutions.
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed clinical research teams.
• Ability to inform, influence and communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders.

🔥Career Insight:
Clinical Operations management sits at the intersection of science, people and execution.

Professionals in this space can build experience across clinical trial management, regulatory operations, site management, quality oversight, portfolio management and people leadership.

For experienced clinical research professionals, a manager-level role can also develop the skills needed to move into broader operational leadership where decisions around resources, risk, quality and study performance become part of the job.