Evidence Platforms Associate Director

BioPharmaceuticals Medical (BPM) ensures the best patient outcomes by providing healthcare decision-makers around the world with the evidence and confidence they need on AZ therapies and support our internal stakeholders with medical insight and expertise. BPM provides medical leadership with market participation and connectivity while also impacting the life cycle planning and execution of all our products. Global Medical Affairs aims to lead AstraZeneca in achieving scientific leadership, being a great place to work, and keeping patients at the core of everything we do.

The Medical Evidence (ME) organization is accountable for the delivery of global strategic studies needed to generate the evidence to build confidence in AZ therapies; including observational, interventional, and externally sponsored research required by Global Product Teams and Global Medical Teams.

As part of the Medical Evidence Platforms Team, the Medical Evidence Platforms Associate Director drives the implementation of business processes, tools and technology platforms to ensure evidence excellence across global BioPharmaceuticals and Oncology Medical Evidence as well as Regional and Local Market evidence teams.   

The Evidence Platforms Associate Director is responsible for organizational operational decisions; ensuring tool/system alignment with strategic direction and defined processes and anticipating business needs.  This individual acts as a primary Evidence business process SMEs when working across AstraZeneca technical teams and will be the primary liaison with IT project teams to ensure enablement projects are on time and that proper business representation is available.   The Evidence Platforms Associate Director clearly communicates progress and statuses to Medical Evidence leadership and drives project Steering Committees.

The Evidence Platforms Associate Director may have the unique opportunity to act as a product/component owner of one of the Medical Evidence systems or tools.  As product owner, the Evidence Enablement Associate Director will help define the vision, manage product backlog and act with autonomy to prioritize Evidence needs and engage the proper business representatives where necessary.

Tools and technology platforms supported by this role include, but are not limited to Evidence Explorer, Veeva Clinical Vault and eTMF, SharePoint Online and macro-enabled excel tools. 

Responsibilities:

• Ownership at the product/component/tool level of Medical Evidence systems and tools

• Develop & Implement change management plans across global, local and regional Evidence teams

• Responsible for organizational operational decisions and ensuring tool/system alignment with strategic direction and defined processes.

• Act as business process SMEs  when working across R&D enterprise systems

• Liaise with IT project teams to ensure enablement projects are on time and that proper business representation is available

• Escalate and manage issues to resolution

Requirements:

Essential

• Bachelors degree in business or technology relevant discipline

• Oustanding communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills with geographically dispersed colleagues

• High level awareness of the overall pharmaceutical product development process, including stages of development and functional area

• Proven ability to apply analytical thinking in issue/risk identification and resolution

• Familiar with Evidence Study Management

• Experience in developing and prioritizing business requirements for IS/IT development & deployment

• Experience in proactively identifying risk and issues

• Demonstrated ability to work independently 

• Demonstrated ability to follow tasks through to completion

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and multitask

• Strong proficiency in key Microsoft Office programs (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)

• Strong organizational skills

• Strong work ethic and high standard of integrity

Desirable

• 5 years of relevant experience from within the pharmaceutical industry or similar large multinational organization

• Experience in clinical operations

• Knowledge of AZ enterprise IT systems such as Veeva/ACCORD/PLANIT

• Experience in successfully developing and executing organization wide change-management programs

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize work across various workstreams

• Knowledge of SharePoint and PowerAutomate