Associate Project Manager – Content Production Support, Medical Information & Communication

GCL: D2Introduction to role:

Ready to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects that turn scientific insight into compliant, high-impact medical content? See yourself uniting medical, digital, and creative teams to deliver solutions that equip healthcare professionals and patients with the right information at the right time!

Join a high-performing distributed team where your project leadership will accelerate the delivery of medical information and communication across channels including Digital, Veeva, AEM, QA, and Creative. We will own end-to-end planning, coordination, execution, and delivery, ensuring projects land on time, within scope, and to the highest standards of quality and compliance. This hybrid role typically requires three days in the office and operates on a 2 to 11 PM shift, supporting flawless collaboration across time zones and markets.

As the central point of orchestration, will partner closely with collaborators, specialists, and delivery teams to handle priorities, risks, and dependencies. Your impact will be felt in the clarity you bring, the momentum that sustain, and the outcomes you enable—advancing consistent, scalable execution of medical and digital programs that support business objectives and enhance collaborator experience.

Accountabilities:

• End-to-End Delivery Leadership: Own planning through delivery for Medical Information and Communications, Medical Content, Digital, Veeva, AEM, QA, and Creative initiatives, ensuring precision in scope, timelines, quality, and compliance.
• Stakeholder Partnership and Intake: Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for interested parties; align on requirements, clarify scope, prioritize intake, and translate needs into actionable delivery plans.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate activities across medical, digital, creative, compliance, and Veeva teams to maintain pace and ensure timely progress through review and approval workflows.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Track progress, handle dependencies, and proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues, advancing with clear options and impact assessments.
• Governance and Compliance: Implement delivery governance, maintain documentation, and ensure all activities meet quality, confidentiality, security, and compliance standards.
• Resource and Capacity Planning: Partner with functional leads to align resources with demand, balance workloads, and remove bottlenecks to keep projects moving.
• Visibility and Reporting: Maintain plans, trackers, and status reports that make progress, achievements, and outcomes clear to collaborators and leadership.
• Meeting Facilitation and Alignment: Run kick-offs, status reviews, and collaborator forums to drive alignment, resolve issues, and sustain momentum.
• Feedback Integration and Approvals: Consolidate collaborator feedback, track actions, and ensure closure within agreed timelines to keep results on track.
• Global Scaling and Consistency: Support repeatable, scalable ways of working across global and regional markets, sharing lessons learned and improving processes for sustained impact.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences, Business Administration, Communications, Project Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8+ years of demonstrated ability in project management, delivery coordination, or operations management within Medical Information, Medical Communications, Medical Affairs, Digital Delivery, Creative Services, or related regulated environments.
• End-to-end project development, organization, implementation, and delivery management and managing project timelines, achievements, risks, dependencies, and partner communications.
• Coordinating Medical Information, Medical Content, Digital, Veeva, Creative, and cross-functional delivery activities.
• Supporting review, approval, and delivery workflows within compliance-driven environments and maintaining project documentation, reporting, and delivery governance processes.
• Strong understanding of working in compliance-driven, review-based environments (medical, regulatory, legal).
• Ability to summarize and adapt medical/scientific content for appropriate target audiences.
• Experience collaborating with medical, regulatory, creative, and delivery stakeholders.
• Good English communication skills (written and verbal) for stakeholder coordination and documentation and strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

Experience working in pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare organizations.

Familiarity with systems such as Promomats, MedCom, or similar medical review platforms.

Experience supporting congress materials, medical education, or scientific disclosures.

Basic understanding of regulatory, legal, and compliance review processes in a global environment.

Awareness of Veeva Vault product updates and standard methodologies and experience working in global, cross-functional teams.

Why AstraZeneca:

Join a global network of specialists united by a clear purpose: to unlock the power of science and deliver significant outcomes for patients. Here, unexpected teams come together to spark bold thinking, combining digital innovation with well-adapted execution to accelerate progress across the enterprise. The role will work in an environment that values curiosity and diversity of thought, where we run fast on agile projects, accept smart risk-taking, and share ideas openly. We value patience alongside ambition, offering the opportunity to shape smarter ways of working while growing your craft in a collaborative, energized culture that connects individual contributions to a larger mission.

Call to Action:

If ready to elevate the way scientific evidence reaches healthcare professionals and create lasting impact for patients, submit your application and shape what comes next!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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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.