Assoc. Dir Total Rewards APAC
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.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
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.
Job Responsibilities
Strategy & Leadership
Partner with Global Total Rewards leadership to develop and execute Total Rewards strategy across APAC.
Provide APAC market insights, trends, and recommendations to influence global program design and local implementation.
Identify opportunities to improve employee experience, efficiency, program effectiveness, and business alignment.
Lead regional planning, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and execution across APAC.
Benefits & Wellbeing
Oversee APAC benefits strategy, governance, administration, and delivery aligned with the global Total Rewards philosophy.
Lead annual renewals, vendor and broker management, and benefits implementation planning.
Ensure programs comply with local regulatory requirements and are appropriately documented, governed, and communicated.
Evaluate benefit competitiveness, employee needs, and market practices; recommend enhancements aligned with company philosophy and financial objectives.
Support wellbeing, recognition, engagement initiatives, and related APAC communications.
Compensation Support
Partner with Global Compensation on regional initiatives, including annual compensation cycles, market reviews, salary structures, and selected projects.
Support job architecture and career framework activities by providing regional insights, local market perspective, and implementation support.
Provide regional and India-specific insights on labor market trends, competitive positioning, salary structures, compensation components, CTC design, allowances, benefits, statutory considerations, and employee impact.
Partner with Compensation, HR, Finance, Payroll, Legal, and regional teams to support consistent, compliant execution of Total Rewards programs.
Governance & Financial Management
Manage regional benefits budgets, vendor spend, and financial planning inputs with Finance, Procurement, and global Total Rewards leadership.
Ensure appropriate governance, controls, documentation, and decision-making processes are in place for regional Total Rewards programs.
Develop recommendations, business cases, and decision materials for senior leadership review.
Support committee materials, executive reporting, and monitoring of program outcomes, risks, costs, and opportunities.
Team Leadership
Lead and develop the APAC Total…