AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to transform healthcare, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most. Now we are further accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we demonstrate the best in new technology and ground-breaking capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.

Digital Health R&D is reimagining how we work to position AstraZeneca as an industry leader, making the development & delivery of new medicines easier. We’re doing this by harnessing the latest innovations enabled by digital, data & analytics and working with our people to craft and build the technology and working practices.

You will be a key member of the Digital Health Oncology team in R&D, ensuring digital strategies are aligned across studies within programs.

In this role you will:

• Work closely with key partners within an Oncology global product team (GPTs) as well as expert functions to build the digital strategy for a given product. This will include optimizing strategies for study design/patient recruitment/data collection/analysis for the unit and develop Patient Support strategies for the product portfolio.

• Ensure the Digital Strategy is delivered and provide strategic leadership on specific technology needs to the digital capability leads driving the digital clinical platforms

• Collaborate with Digital Health R&D teams to prioritize capability development which drives business value and patient outcomes and also drives the development of an industry leading R&D Digital organization

• Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity and issues management at strategic, tactical and operational levels

• Use your networks to be able to understand and influence key aspects such as the global regulatory and competitive environments and apply learning to AZ programs, reporting performance vs the critical metrics set within the organization

• Deliver governance approved business cases within tolerance, on time, cost and quality working with functional management as required to resolve issues.

• Grow and maintain internal and external relationships with partners in Oncology R&D and commercial organization, key markets, external leaders and our patients to ensure prioritized needs are met in everything we do.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in scientific field

• 7 plus years of shown experience in pharmaceutical industry with validated understanding of Drug Development Processes, and experience of developing products to treat cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases

• Ability to lead and influence strategically and persuade thoughtfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships

• Experience in Digital Health with proven understanding of Healthcare

• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners

• Strong influencing and senior stakeholder leadership skills

• Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and holds self and others accountable

• Well-developed communication skills, able to build clarity from ambiguity

• Shown delivery track record

• Transformational Leadership of functional and cross functional team

• Persuasive verbal and written communication skills

• Passion for Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making.

Desired Qualifications:

• Advance degree

• Strong Scientific and Medical understanding of the Oncology Therapy Area

• Device, software development and / or clinical project management

• Comprehensive understanding of dynamics affecting the pharmaceutical industry and needs for transformation

• Ability to work globally including international travel

• Well-developed Project management skills, including handling vendors, budgets, timelines and risks

This role can be located at our following sites: Gaithersburg, MD; Waltham, MA; & Barcelona, Spain

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering groundbreaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

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