DIRECTOR, DIGITAL HEALTH IMPLEMENTATION, DIGITAL HEALTH R&D

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to transform Clinical Development and Healthcare Delivery, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most.
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 digital innovations working with patients, clinicians and our teams to design and build the technology and working practices at scale.
We are accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we deliver the best in innovative technology capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.
The Digital Patient Health & Innovation function is part of Digital Health R&D and works across 4 key areas by defining our digital health strategies, developing and deploying novel endpoints as well as digital patient solutions to support our full R&D clinical development and commercial drug portfolios in partnership with R&D and IT teams.
Our mission is to.
Transform clinical development, through development of patient and site centric digital solutions that improve access to clinical trials for all patients, whilst delivering faster and more efficiently for both site and sponsor Improve outcomes for our patients and trials through remote data collection and patient support, providing enriched data sets to support regulatory submissions and differentiated labelling Partner with the healthcare industry to determine how digital technologies can improve diagnosis, access to treatments and outcomes for patients with CKD, Heart Failure and COPD, including remote diagnosis tools and multi-modal healthcare data and AI approaches Optimise real world medication use by patients and deliver digital interventions to improve clinical outcomes with our medicines Would you like to apply your expertise to transform how we develop medicines and change patients’ lives in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines?  Do you thrive on working flexibly at the forefront of science and technology in a rapidly changing global environment? Fancy the chance to deliver patient centric, sustainable and efficient solutions at scale across our portfolio in partnership with patients, healthcare professionals and our R&D teams? Then AstraZeneca Digital Health R&D might be the place for you! Main duties and responsibilities.
The holder of this role will collaborate and partner within an extended team structure across CPTs, Digital Health Clin Ops and PCS to oversee the implementation of digital patient solutions.
This role supports the execution of clinical trials and digital therapeutics crafted to augment the efficacy of AZ pharmaceutical products.
The role holder will also supply to defining processes and ways of working for now and the future.
Your key accountabilities will be.
Delivery of Digital Health Strategies Support the development of the Digital Health strategy by using operational expertise across a program(s) or studies as assigned.
Accountable for the Operational implementation of the digital strategies approved by GPT within the agreed scope and project budget Be responsible for the implementation of Digital Health strategy to anticipate project requirements and mitigate risks to project delivery Ensure Implementation Lead understands the project strategy, project priorities and specific project challenges Support staff/team to achieve project milestones and study deliverables Work across departments to support the delivery of projects and organizational improvements Act as first point of issue escalation for implementation issues Ensure Inspection Readiness of digital patient solutions delivered to each study Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity and issues management at strategic and operational levels, ensure appropriate reporting according to GCP and AZ processes Develop and manage relationships with internal and external technology and service providers to enable innovation approaches and endpoints to be included in Digital Strategies.
Help build a learning organisation.
ensure that any learning associated with the programs is shared within the Digital Patient Health & Innovation Organisation   Function Leadership Lead and/or co-lead major initiative(s) Contribute to streamline processes for drug/non-drug projects or departmental activities Promote and encourage innovation and creativity Work with Leadership team to achieve accurate resource forecasting and develop solutions to efficiently and flexibly resource studies Ensure quality and compliance to External Regulations and AZ Standards Work across the Hubs to develop global efficient ways-of-working Provide expert input into functional and cross-functional global processes Essential Requirements.
Bachelors Hons Degree in scientific field At least 5 years of relevant experience in R&D and strong knowledge of Drug Development processes Well-developed Project management skills, including managing vendors, budgets, timelines and risks Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and holds self and others accountable Senior Stakeholder management skill with together with proven negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal leadership skills Effective problem and conflict solving skills Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and create clarity Passion for Patients, representing the needs of diverse patient backgrounds and views in all decision making.
Desirable Requirements Extensive cross-functional and cross-TA network to rely on and collaborate with to enable Digital Health – Oncology solutions to be effectively embedded within the Drug Development ways of working.
Experience of developing products to support patients in AZ’s therapy areas 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 Line management experience         AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.
We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.
We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.
We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.