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A large consulting firm specializing in organizational transformation for the biopharmaceutical industry, Syneos offers jobseekers the opportunity to leave their mark on an industry that touches countless lives around the world. This is an ideal fit for anyone with a passion for healthcare and achieving quantifiable, sustainable results that change lives.
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Insiders at Syneos Health love the firm’s supportive, caring, and meritocratic culture. They also love its incredible work-life balance. Not only are the hours low for consulting, but the firm offers hybrid work policies, flexible hours, and limited travel.
Syneos Health also offers solid career development opportunities. While the promotion process can be a bit unclear and finding a mentor can require taking your own initiative, according to insiders, the firm provides early responsibility and ownership that empower its consultants to push their boundaries and grow professionally. Employees also laud its employee resource groups, which make sure the firm’s career development opportunities are accessible to everyone.
About the Company
Syneos Health Consulting is a management consulting firm specializing in the biopharmaceutical industry and part of Syneos Health, a 21,000-employee biopharmaceutical solutions organization designed to help the biopharmaceutical industry shorten the distance from lab to life.
Syneos Health provides services across a comprehensive range of key areas, including portfolio strategy, brand commercialization and commercial model strategy/planning; medical affairs, quality and compliance, risk and program management; pricing, market access and HEOR; and research and development.
Recognized by Forbes magazine as one of America's Best Management Consulting Firms for five years running, Syneos Health strives to combine industry focus and depth of functional expertise with strong scientific and market knowledge to tackle...
Employee Reviews
- “The team is amazing and very supportive. I feel like I can be myself and grow in the firm. I don't feel hesitant voicing my opinions and concerns, and the shared goal of patient welfare motivates me to come to work every day and stay at Syneos Health.”
- “Syneos Health is an open environment where people listen to your ideas, and you have the opportunity to share your thoughts.”
- “Management cares about us as people. While they push us to deliver to a higher stand...
- “The team is amazing and very supportive. I feel like I can be myself and grow in the firm. I don't feel hesitant voicing my opinions and concerns, and the shared goal of patient welfare motivates me to come to work every day and stay at Syneos Health.”
- “Syneos Health is an open environment where people listen to your ideas, and you have the opportunity to share your thoughts.”
- “Management cares about us as people. While they push us to deliver to a higher standard, they also give us the respect and balance needed to maintain a good work-life balance and the support we need to succeed.”
- “We’re very meritocratic. If you have an idea, you can run with it.”
Getting Hired Here
- “We have a very quick process that provides excellent feedback. We seek both industry experts and new joiners from leading universities and business schools.”
- “We’re looking for high potential people rather than those who have ‘been there, done that’ in consulting. The hiring process consists of three or four stages, with competency-based interviews, case interviews, presentations, and panel interviews. It’s very competitive.”
- “We’re looking for high IQ and EQ peopl...
- “We have a very quick process that provides excellent feedback. We seek both industry experts and new joiners from leading universities and business schools.”
- “We’re looking for high potential people rather than those who have ‘been there, done that’ in consulting. The hiring process consists of three or four stages, with competency-based interviews, case interviews, presentations, and panel interviews. It’s very competitive.”
- “We’re looking for high IQ and EQ people who are curious, keen to learn whatever their level is, and able to demonstrate the culture and values we take pride in.”
- “The ideal candidate has a growth mindset, is collaborative, is a good connector, and is committed to solving problems from the client’s perspective—not the employee’s sales target.”