Alliance Management Strategy & Innovation (S&I) Lead (BioPharma) (Senior Director)

Locations: Gothenburg, SE; Warsaw, PL; Mississauga, CA; Barcelona, ES; Gaithersburg, US

Competitive salary and flexible benefits

Make a more meaningful impact to patients’ lives around the globe

Here you’ll have the chance to make a meaningful difference to patients’ lives. With science at its heart, this is the place where breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicines – for the world’s most complex diseases. Answer unmet medical needs by pioneering the next wave of science, focusing on outcomes and shaping the patient ecosystem.

The Alliance Management (AM) group sits within BioPharma Clinical Operations and is accountable for setting the sourcing strategy across R&D and managing our suppliers to ensure that they deliver what the organisations need; and develop strong, beneficial partnerships with key suppliers.

As Alliance Management Strategy & Innovation Lead, this is strategically focused role where you will partner with BioPharma Therapeutic Areas (TAs) and key functions across R&D to understand their clinical delivery needs from an outsourcing perspective, apply expert knowledge to shape and influence optimal sourcing strategies and partner to drive effective outsourcing methodology that will enable them to deliver on their goals.

You will be instrumental in championing the use of current outsourced models and suppliers while driving ongoing optimisation and refinement of the strategy and delivery models to meet the needs of the business. You will have dotted line responsibility for a team of strategic project leads that will support you across the above as well as drive forward key critical initiatives for Alliance Management or the wider organisation.

As an expert in your field, you will ensure you and the team stay up to date with industry trends enabling R&D to make informed sourcing strategy decisions.

Essential criteria:

• University degree in related subject area, or equivalent experience

• Extensive knowledge of clinical and pharmaceutical drug development process at various phases of development

• Experience leading significant projects globally utilising excellent project management skills

• Extensive experience working collaboratively with external partners in the clinical development space and of partner selection and qualification

• Entrepreneurial thinker with affinity toward experimentation and appropriate risk taking

• Excellent leadership and influencing skills, especially without authority

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal

• Ability to apply strategic direction to a team or project and generate new strategic options

• Ability to lead and solve problems that involve many decision makers, and develop multiple options / recommendations

• Have considerable tact, discretion and persuasion to obtain desired outcomes while maintaining ongoing professional relationships

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

This role is open from 22nd March, and we encourage your application by 5th April.

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