Job Description
Syneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. Syneos Health partners with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change, and accelerate progress.
Every day Syneos Health performs better because of how its people work together as one team, with each person bringing expertise in their area. The organization brings together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business-critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling customers to achieve their goals. Teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering for each other, customers, and ultimately the people who rely on the services they support.
The company has approximately 25,000 colleagues globally.
Why Syneos Health
Syneos Health is passionate about developing its people through career development and progression, supportive and engaged line management, technical and therapeutic area training, peer recognition, and total rewards programs.
The company is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees can authentically be themselves. Central to this is the purpose Driven to Deliver, which captures the passion of colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
Syneos Health continuously works toward building the company its employees want to work for and customers want to work with. By bringing together smart colleagues from across the world, the organization aims to shape the future of healthcare, drive impact for customers, and define the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Job Summary
The Principal HRIS Analyst serves as a strategic and technical leader within the HR Technology function, responsible for driving the design, execution, and optimization of Workday solutions across the full employee lifecycle. This role acts as a trusted advisor and hands-on systems expert, bridging HR Centers of Excellence, IT, and business leaders to ensure Workday supports organizational strategy and operational excellence.
The Principal Analyst combines deep Workday expertise with strong business acumen to deliver scalable, data-driven, and compliant solutions that enhance the employee and HR user experience.
Core Responsibilities
Workday Strategy & Execution
Lead configuration, testing, and deployment of Workday functionality across multiple HCM modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent, and Recruiting.
Translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions that enhance process efficiency and data integrity.
Partner with HR Technology, IT, and Centers of Excellence to prioritize, troubleshoot, and optimize Workday functionality.
Support system governance, roadmap planning, and release management to ensure continuous improvement.
Workday Expertise
Serve as the subject matter expert for Workday configuration, reporting, and business process design.
Build and maintain eligibility rules, calculated fields, condition rules, and security groups.
Develop dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights to HR, Finance, and business leaders.
Monitor Workday releases and assess new functionality for business applicability.
Business Partnering & Collaboration
Serve as a strategic partner to HR, IT, and Finance teams to align system capabilities with business goals.
Advise stakeholders on Workday functionality, process design, and best practices.
Educate HR partners and business users on system capabilities to promote effective and consistent use.
Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to support enterprise initiatives.
Governance & Data Stewardship
Maintain data integrity, compliance, and audit readiness across Workday modules.
Support enterprise job architecture, security design, and data governance frameworks.
Ensure alignment with organizational policies, global standards, and local regulatory requirements.
Technology Leadership
Partner with HR Technology leadership on roadmap development, system enhancements, and vendor strategy.
Lead business reviews with HR and Centers of Excellence to identify improvement opportunities and leverage new technology.
Drive innovation by exploring new Workday capabilities, integrations, and automation opportunities.
Qualifications
Education Requirements
Minimum Education Level Bachelor’s degree.
Degree in Business, Human Resources, or Information Technology.
Preferred Education Graduate degree in Business, Human Resources, or Information Technology.
Additional Qualifications
HR Technology experience including deep hands-on Workday configuration and administration.
Advanced proficiency in Workday configuration across multiple modules including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, Talent, and Recruiting.
Experience with Workday release management and tenant strategy.
Proficiency in Workday reporting, calculated fields, and custom dashboards.
Strong understanding of HR business processes and data structures.
Experience leading or mentoring analysts within a complex, global HR environment.
Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Proven ability to deliver both strategic system design and day-to-day operational support.
Critical Skills
Enterprise program leadership with the ability to drive multi-functional initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
Strategic governance with the ability to define standards and frameworks for system design, change management, and roadmap decisions.
Executive communication and influence with the ability to present recommendations and trade-offs to senior leadership.
Technical depth and foresight with the ability to anticipate system needs based on organizational growth and market trends.
Change leadership with the ability to lead enterprise-wide change management efforts and ensure adoption of new technologies.
Disclaimer
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.
Nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills and 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 Syneos Health operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive in relation to 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 in performing the essential functions of the job.
Get to know Syneos Health
Over the past 5 years, Syneos Health has 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 the role is, employees are encouraged to take initiative and challenge the status quo in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment.
Industry Life Sciences Services, Healthcare, Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Services
Employee Size Approximately 25,000 colleagues globally
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