Culture Enablement & Activation Manager
Job Description
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
As Syneos Health continues its transformation journey, this role will serve as the activation engine for our strategic culture priorities—driving engagement, orchestrating program rollouts, and establishing clear metrics to evaluate enterprise impact. The Culture Enablement & Activation Manager will package, communicate, launch, and measure culture initiatives that connect employees and leaders to the organizational narrative, ensuring culture translates from intent into action.
Scope & Value Creation:
• Translate culture priorities into clear, compelling, and repeatable content, toolkits, and narratives for leaders, managers, and teams.
• Create a unified, visible culture storyline across leadership communications, manager cascades, and enterprise milestones.
• Ensure all materials are practical, modern, and globally relevant.
• Plan and execute phased launches and socialization of culture programs across leadership, managers, colleagues, and regional teams.
• Enable consistent rollout while allowing for local relevance and adaptation.
• Define and track culture success metrics (adoption, behavior signals, engagement, participation, sentiment).
• Build dashboards and scorecards to show progress and impact, producing clear readouts for leadership to support decision-making and course-correction.
• Lay the groundwork to absorb additional culture-related programs in the future, such as Employee Resource Groups management and volunteer/community initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop high-quality written, visual, and digital content to support culture initiatives.
• Package complex programs into clear narratives and practical toolkits.
• Ensure consistency, clarity, and credibility across all culture communications.
• Partner with HR, Internal Comms, and regional leaders to drive adoption and engagement.
• Coordinate timing, messaging, and materials across a matrixed organization.
• Track adoption, engagement, participation, and behavior signals over time.
• Create dashboards and executive-ready readouts showing progress and impact.
• Use data-driven insights to recommend adjustments and improvements.
Additional Qualifications
• Strong content creation and storytelling skills for diverse audiences.
• Experience launching and scaling programs in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Comfortable with data, metrics, dashboards, and telling a story with numbers.
• Experience working in fast-paced, global environments with shifting priorities.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Self-starter with high accountability and bias for action.
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.
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.