Product Director, Site & Sponsor Products

Evinova enables global life sciences to accelerate better health outcomes, by creating digital health solutions for clinical research. We are a separate business within the AstraZeneca group.

Our highly configurable SaaS solutions are used by patients, research sites, sponsors, and CROs throughout the clinical study lifecycle. As our business scales, we need the extend the team and adopt our organization to keep focus on a number of key areas. Site & Sponsor Products is a key part of our service and is a critical and strategic area for our vision to transform clinical trials, enhance participant experience and improve patient health outcome. This area includes our Unified Trial Solution (UTS) as well as specialized AI driven products to support specific Site/Sponsor processes (AIDA).

We are now hiring a Director Site & Sponsor Products to join our team. In this role, you will lead a team of Product specialists together with subject matter experts focused on Products and services for site and sponsor staff before, during and after a clinical trial. The team will be responsible for design and development of products to transform the experience for site & sponsor staff while enabling new novel designs of clinical trials to accelerate delivery and improve quality while satisfying regulatory and legal requirements and guidelines. Together with other specialist across design, engineering and customer delivery the team will define and develop requirements for future product(s) and deliver them in an efficient way and align with the Head of UTS Core for overall Product alignment.

You, and your team, will work closely with Clinical Operations specialists internally or externally to define opportunities and improvements in the set-up, management, delivery and close-out of Clinical trials. Your team will be responsible for improving metrics about speed of delivery, user experience and quality in the clinical trial execution as supported by our products. You will also work closely with the Digital Strategy Directors community to understand and influence digital disease area strategies to make full use of Product opportunities and services.

This is a highly strategic role where you will need to balance the "big picture" with a deep understanding of the technical and operational details. You will work with other part of the company to secure that the product fits in an efficient and customer focused end-to-end service to make participation in clinical trials as easy as possible while securing the integrity of all data collected. Fostering a learning organization and sharing knowledge will also be a critical part of the responsibilities.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team of Product Manager/owners to define the overall roadmap for the area and drive the strategic product discussions.
• Craft a strategic product roadmap across your customer/product area by synthesizing customer feedback, competitive insights, business strategies/priorities, and user needs that can then be used to define individual product roadmaps.
• Coach and develop Product Managers/Owners, technical SMEs and other roles to drive a product focused culture/capabilities and enhance our Product Development framework to deliver high quality products and services aligned with business needs.
• Responsible for stimulating conceptual thinking and creativity and challenging the status quo for continuous improvement in our ways of working.
• Develop and propose new business cases in collaborate with SMEs to define and drive innovations in your product area and how these technologies can transform clinical study design and delivery.
• Drive discussion across Evinova product portfolio to identify new opportunities to service our customers.
• Collaborate with other product areas and contribute to the overall product strategy for UTS, AIDA and related products.
• Ensure quality and compliance to External Regulations and guidelines relevant to your product area.
• Participate in external focus groups to drive and influence the external regulations or guidance to enable adaptation to digitally enhanced clinical trials.
• Manage defined internal and external stakeholders to drive improvements and change.
• Act as a change agent during the global roll-out of new technologies - embed new tools and technologies into the business and measure success.
• Interact with TA leads for Digital strategies on TA and DA level and understand how these impact the product roadmaps
• Together with other specialists in Evinova keep an updated Competitive landscape for the DPS area and identify key areas of strength and opportunities for Evinova.
• Support in assessments of value definitions of proposed sub-product areas, epics, etc
• Contribute to Evinova Operational Excellence Strategy to define improvements areas for improved study set-up, delivery and closeout and how we can reduce site and sponsor burden across the study lifecycle.
• Take on all aspects of Line Management including Resource planning, Recruit, Retain & Develop personnel and manage performance including feedback and rewards.
• Member Of the DPS Product LT and support driving a world-class product organisation.

Essential Requirements:

• Life Sciences degree or equivalent experience
• Extensive Product Management skills, +5 years, in similar product areas
• 5 or more years’ experience from relevant roles in delivery of clinical trials and deep knowledge of DPS components and their utilization in clinical trials.
• Understanding of the drug development process, and the different sources of information that will support, inform and assist in Trial Design and execution.
• Knowledge of GCP, 21 CFR part 11, relevant guidelines ISPOR, ISOQOL, FDA, EMA
• Proven track record of teamwork in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners
• Ability to challenge the status quo, lead through a vision, take ownership and hold self and others accountable.
• Well-developed Senior Stakeholder management skill with together with proven problem-solving, 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.
• Great leadership skills and experience in developing people.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners.
• Passion for Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making.
• Experience of Deployment of scaled products

Desirable:

• Thrives in a fast-paced work environment, comfortable with complexity and uncertainty at times, lots of humour, dedication to deliver outcomes and motivated by the opportunity to rethink our approach to healthcare.
• Comfort and skills operating in a heavily matrixed organizations with excellent skills and intuition to manage the needs of various partners.
• Ability to manage and influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships.

• Comprehensive understanding of dynamics affecting the pharmaceutical industry and needs for transformation.

• Ability to work globally including international travel.

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. 

Location
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. We have an on-site commitment of three days a week.

So what’s next?

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