Associate Director, Global Regulatory Policy and Intelligence

This role is based in Barcelona, with an on-site commitment of three days a week. Fluency in Englishis required.

Are you ready to turn evolving global regulations into decisions that speed life-changing medicines to patients? Do you thrive at the intersection of science, policy, and strategy, translating complex external change into clear actions that shape development and access?

In this role, you will guide how we navigate a fast-shifting environment across evidence generation, clinical trial innovation, and market access—so our therapies reach the right patients earlier. You will connect external policy signals to internal priorities, helping teams anticipate change, reduce risk, and seize opportunity. Your work will directly influence the design and delivery of programs that aim to transform outcomes in cancer, bringing earlier detection and treatment strategies to more patients worldwide.

You will partner with global, regional, and functional leaders to build aligned positions, shape consultation responses, and coordinate engagement with regulators, health technology assessment bodies, and industry networks. This is a chance to lead with clarity, build consensus, and drive impact across a high-ambition portfolio.

• Monitor, analyse, and interpret emerging legislation, regulations, guidance, regulatory practices, health-system reforms, HTA developments, and industry trends across priority markets.
• Translate external developments into clear implications, risks, opportunities, dependencies, and recommended actions for AstraZeneca’s clinical development, evidence-generation, regulatory, market access, data, manufacturing, and business priorities.
• Assess policy developments extending beyond medicines regulators, including those involving agencies responsible for research, healthcare delivery, reimbursement, health information, data standards, and public–private clinical trial infrastructure.
• Lead or contribute to regulatory policy and intelligence analyses relating to innovative clinical trial designs, routine point-of-care trials, decentralised trials, real-world evidence, digital and AI tools, surrogate endpoints, rare-disease development, and international regulatory harmonisation.
• Support the development of aligned AstraZeneca policy positions, consultation responses, advocacy materials, reports, position statements, briefing documents, and presentations.
• Coordinate cross-functional input to ensure AstraZeneca communicates with a clear, consistent, and evidence-based voice.
• Support the identification, assessment, coordination, and delivery of relevant Calls for Comment and external consultations.
• Conduct complex regulatory intelligence queries and deliver tailored analyses, precedents, landscape assessments, timelines, and insights for project teams and senior stakeholders.
• Provide regulatory policy and intelligence support to therapeutic areas, regions, and marketing-company teams.
• Identify and communicate emerging regulatory and policy risks and opportunities, including their potential impact on global clinical development and evidence-generation programmes.
• Support AstraZeneca participation in trade association committees, professional networks, external forums, health authority engagements, and policy discussions.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with health authorities, governmental bodies, trade associations, professional societies, peer companies, regulatory policy networks, and external information providers.
• Contribute to the governance, consistent use, maintenance, and improvement of regulatory intelligence systems, databases, information resources, and digital tools in partnership with IT, digital, information science, library, and…