Director, Digital Health Implementation, Digital Health R&D

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you!

Transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative 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.

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector.

Main duties and responsibilities:

The Director, Digital Health Implementation will collaborate and partner within a matrix, cross-functional team structure across customers, vendors, and internal product and IT reams to oversee the implementation of digital patient solutions. This role supports the execution digital solutions in support of clinical trials. The role holder will also contribute to defining processes and ways of working for today and the future.

Your key accountabilities will be:

Contribute to 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

o Oversee the implementation of Digital Health strategy to anticipate project requirements and mitigate risks to project delivery

o Ensure Implementation Lead understands the project strategy, project priorities and specific project challenges

o Support staff/team to achieve project milestones and study deliverables

o Work across departments to support the delivery of projects and organizational improvements

o Act as first point of issue escalation for implementation issues

o 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 in a global environment

· Provide expert input into functional and cross-functional global processes

Essential Requirements:

· Bachelors Hons Degree in scientific field or equivalent experience

· Relevant experience in R&D and strong knowledge of Drug Development processes and clinical trial delivery

· Well-developed Project management skills, including managing customers, 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 skills together with proven leadership, negotiation, collaboration and strong interpersonal 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

· Experience of developing products to support patients across multiple therapy areas

· Device, software development and / or clinical project management

· Comprehensive understanding of dynamics affecting the pharmaceutical industry and need for transformation.

· Ability to work in a global environment including international travel, as needed (up to 20%)

· Line management experience.

Why Evinova (AstraZeneca)?

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. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge 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

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.