Chief Digital and AI Enterprise Partner Lead

Chief Digital and AI Enterprise Partner Lead
Introduction to role

Evinova is a global AI-powered health tech business, purpose-built to transform and accelerate clinical development. Our AI-native platform spans the full clinical development lifecycle, from portfolio management and study build through to submission. Deployed across more than 54 countries, including China and Japan, our solutions power hundreds of active studies for leading pharmaceutical companies, CROs and biotechs. As the Chief Digital and AI Enterprise Partner Lead, this role acts as the executive bridge between Evinova and AstraZeneca, driving collaboration, innovation partnership, change management, strategic alignment and continuous evolution of digital and AI solutions across AstraZeneca’s clinical development.

Reporting directly to the President of Evinova and sitting on the Evinova Leadership Team, this position holds single-point accountability for the depth, quality and strategic impact of the partnership with AstraZeneca, ensuring that digital health and AI ambitions are realised through strategy, adoption, roadmap alignment and coordinated innovation across all Evinova functions.

Lead the strategic digital and AI partnership with AstraZeneca, serving as the primary executive point of contact and ensuring Evinova’s solutions are embedded in clinical development strategy, portfolio decisions and key programmes.

Co-create and maintain a multi-year digital and AI roadmap and joint scorecard, driving quarterly governance with AstraZeneca’s most senior R&D leaders.

Shape and run strategic planning cycles to identify new innovation opportunities, emerging use cases and areas where AI can accelerate study timelines, enhance data quality and strengthen regulatory readiness.

Act as the executive voice of AstraZeneca within Evinova, translating strategic priorities into clear direction for product, delivery, commercial, science and innovation teams.

Build and sustain trusted relationships with AstraZeneca’s executive collaborators, including C-suite leaders, VPs in Clinical Development and Operations, Chief Operating Officers and Heads of Regulatory and IT. Chair or co-chair senior governance forums, steering committees and executive business reviews to secure alignment, resolve issues and ensure milestone accountability.

Proactively manage executive-level risks and issues, personally leading resolution of high-priority partner concerns with pace and transparency. Represent Evinova at AstraZeneca internal conferences, digital health forums and executive off-sites, positioning the partnership as a benchmark for clinical AI and digital health collaboration.

Drive innovation at the intersection of digital health and AI by identifying, scoping and delivering joint initiatives in areas such as AI-assisted document authoring, predictive analytics for study design, decentralised trial enablement through Unify and new modalities.

Partner with Evinova’s Chief Product Officer and technology leaders to shape the product roadmap around AstraZeneca’s unmet needs and strategic priorities, ensuring investments deliver measurable value to the pipeline.

Lead proof-of-concept programmes that translate AI innovation into scalable, validated clinical solutions deployed across global study portfolios.

Stay ahead of industry trends in AI, regulation and clinical technology, bringing external insight into both Evinova’s leadership team and AstraZeneca’s strategic planning.

Design and operate an executive communication framework that provides clear visibility of programme status, milestones, risks and outcomes across AstraZeneca’s leadership layers. Build dashboards, scorecards and strategic briefings that give real-time insight into Evinova-enabled programmes.

Act as editorial authority for all AstraZeneca-facing communications from Evinova, ensuring narratives are accurate, aligned and tailored from working teams through to board level. Coordinate with marketing and communications to amplify partnership successes, case studies and joint innovation stories in external forums.

Own the strategic coordination of training and enablement…