Senior Director

Job Title: Senior Director, External Science Engagement Strategy Lead

Location: Remote, UK (occasional travel to London/ Cambridge may be required)

Duration: 6 months

IR35 Status: Inside

The Senior Director, External Science Engagement Strategy Lead supports the ORD Strategy - Academic Partnerships mission of driving and integrating insights, biosamples, capabilities and accelerating clinical trial delivery through our industry-leading academic ecosystem.

Specific responsibilities include ownership of External Science Panels and the generation of milestone-informing insights that support individual tumor and asset strategies as well as the overall Oncology R&D Strategy. It will drive cross-functional collaboration across Early Oncology, Late Oncology, Tumor Councils, and ORD Strategy teams. This role will lead critical team-wide initiatives and work streams.

In this role you will utilize your experience, leadership, and extensive expertise in oncology to lead effective cross-functional working teams of internal stakeholders in Oncology, Haematology and Cell Therapy R&D and leverage the vast AZ network of external experts in order to drive and deliver the AZ Oncology strategy.

What you will do:

• With senior ORD & CTU leadership, identify highest-priority strategic topics for External Engagements and integrate learnings and insights into strategic plans.
• Lead the External Science Panel portfolio, and deliver ESPs end-to-end
• Manage multiple cross-functional, cross-disciplinary working teams to deliver External Engagements.
• Work with ORD-LT members to socialize and integrate critical outputs, actions, and recommendations into strategic plans.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of AZ pipeline, strategy, vision, and SBDA priorities.
• Collaborate with broad functional teams across the early and late-stage oncology organization (Early Oncology, Late Oncology, Tumor Councils, and SBDA).
• Lead subset of External R&D internal work streams in close collaboration with other members of the Leadership Team.
• Manage Key External Expert (KEE) relationships and participate in meetings with external partners; prepare and deliver external presentations.
• Contribute to budget management, governance processes, and annual planning processes.
• Maintain compliance with all company compliance and regulatory guidelines governing external interactions.

Qualifications:

• PhD or MD (desirable) in life sciences, biomedical sciences, healthcare, or a related field, with experience working in or consulting with the pharmaceutical industry.
• Management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or other similar professional experience.
• Critical strategic thinker comfortable with designing and executing workplans and communication cascades within a highly matrixed organization.
• Highly collaborative with exceptional interpersonal skills and the capacity to influence stakeholders across Oncology departments
• Excellent written and verbal communications comfortable engaging and leading conversations with senior leadership.
• Highly organized with demonstrated strength in project management, and cross-function team management
• Experience working in a matrixed organization with demonstrated ability to influence across an organization.
• Experience representing an organization to external stakeholders and experts.
• Knowledge of Oncology drug development, strategy and process.

CV Submission Closing Date - 13th August