Release Manager, Evinova

Transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and cutting-edge ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

We’re not just building software—we’re transforming lives. If you’re passionate about leadership, collaboration, and driving innovation in healthcare, we’d love to have you join our team as a Release manager.

The Product Engineering organization consists of several self-organized/managed cross-functional teams with the people and skills needed to deliver our innovative digital products and solutions to patients and healthcare providers participating in clinical trials around the world. We are working with agile methodology delivering a new release of the software product with program increments every quarter.

In the Delivery Excellence division of Engineering, our primary focus is ensuring production releases are delivered on schedule while maintaining high standards of quality and efficiency.

What You’ll Be Doing
We are a growing organization and as part of our transformation we need to expand our Release management team. Part of our transformation are improving our Release and development processes to accelerate our delivery to market from our Med tech SaaS organization. As a Release Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving these changes, providing leadership, and guiding the Release team toward operational excellence.

In collaboration with internal stakeholders, customers, product, design and engineering teams your responsibility is to plan and run continuous releases and deploys of product versions. The release team are responsible for overseeing the entire release process, from planning and coordination to execution and post-release support. The release manager acts as a liaison between different teams involved in the release process, ensuring that everyone is aligned and working towards the same goal.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Ensure timely and accurate software releases, which includes careful planning and scheduling.
• Facilitate collaboration between multiple teams to ensure seamless delivery of features and solutions.
• Proactively handle and mitigate risks and issues that could hinder a release in collaboration with the release team and engineer.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure the releases aligns with the overall roadmaps, change initiatives and regulatory requirements.

• Secure quality in product readiness before releasing by ensuring that testing processes and milestones are followed.
• The release management team ensures smooth operation of software systems and oversees the entire process from start to finish.

To succeed in this role, you should have:

Required Skills and Experience:

• Technical or Business Degree
• Solid experience working in a global organization as well as managing and leading global, geographically dispersed teams and partners
• Experience in release management, release coordination, or a similar role
• Shown experience as an IT Project manager, with 5+ years of PM or Scrum master experience.
• Great communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and functions.
• Driven by creating a high-performing team where knowledge sharing and create solutions through collaborations is what makes you smile at the end of the day.
• Experience from software product development processes and flows as well as working with Agile methods, particularly SAFe and Scrum.
• Experience and knowledge of quality systems and regulations
• Fluency in English is required.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience of regulations such as GxP, SaMD validation or similar.
• Project manager certification.
• Scrum Master or Agile Coach certification.
• Experience of customer and stakeholder management and alignment
• Strong will to support a complex technical product, with a focus on continuous improvement and delivery
• Masters degree (business or technical degree)

We’re looking for someone who:

• You have a passion for quality and take pride in deliver product releases to achieve great results.
• Is humble, approachable, and thrives in a collaborative environment.
• Works in a structured manner, paying attention to detail and quality.
• Is proactive, driven, and capable of working autonomously when needed.
• Actively contributes to creating a fun and engaging workplace culture.

Why Evinova?
Evinova draws on AstraZeneca’s deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment.  We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider healthcare community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients.  Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector. 

You’ll be part of a collaborative and diverse global team working with a modern tech stack in a regulatory environment. You’ll have great opportunities to grow whether it’s through tackling exciting challenges or learning from experienced colleagues.

Location
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. The office is based in Gothenburg near GoCo Health Innovation Center in Mölndal. It´s close to public transportation and easy to access by car.

Join Us
Are you ready to make a real difference in the healthcare space? Apply now and become a part of Evinova’s innovative journey to transform clinical trials!