Director, R&D IT - Development & Late TA Project Management

Overview

Job Title: Director, R&D IT - Development & Late TA Project Management

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to lead complex, cross-functional programs that accelerate how life-changing medicines reach patients? In this role, you will orchestrate high-impact delivery across late-stage development, turning strategy into outcomes that matter in clinics and across the business. You will connect scientific priorities with robust technology delivery, ensuring clarity of goals, speed of execution, and measurable benefits.

You will partner with senior leaders, product owners, engineers and external partners to shape intent, translate it into actionable roadmaps and drive disciplined execution. Can you align diverse stakeholders, anticipate risks, and create the conditions for teams to do their best work? Your leadership will empower teams to deliver with pace and purpose—so patients feel the impact sooner.

• Program Leadership:
  Set direction and lead multi-project delivery from inception through benefits realization, ensuring clear scope, ownership and decision-making.

• Stakeholder Partnership:
  Build strong relationships with senior business leaders; align on objectives, secure commitment and maintain a shared view of progress, risks and value.

• Benefits Realization:
  Define, track and deliver user and business benefits; tie outcomes to project milestones and hold teams accountable for value.

• Risk and Issue Management:
  Establish proactive risk practices; remove blockers early, resolve issues decisively and escalate with data and options.

• Planning and Governance:
  Oversee integrated plans across scope, schedule, cost, quality and resources; apply the Adaptive Delivery Framework; run decision point reviews and steering forums.

• Change and Scope Control:
  Manage change with discipline; assess impacts, gain approvals and communicate crisply to stakeholders and review boards.

• Financial Stewardship:
  Own budgets and forecasts; ensure investment transparency and enable informed trade-offs based on value and risk.

• Team Building and
  
  Coaching:
  
  Build a cohesive, high-performing delivery team; set high standards, coach leaders and foster psychological safety and accountability.

• Integration Delivery:
  Ensure end-to-end integration across platforms and partners to realize program objectives and seamless user experiences.

• Supplier and Partner Management:
  Align internal and external suppliers to outcomes; hold vendors to standards and deliverables while nurturing productive partnerships.

AZ Senior/executive stakeholders to ensure understanding and commitment to programme objectives, and development and refinement of deliverables. Key business stakeholders (eg. Business leads/product owners) to ensure the effective capturing of business user stories and commitment to project/programme objectives. Ensure e2e delivery of key integrations, to realise the project/programme objectives and benefits. Internal and external suppliers to ensure delivery of agreed products and services while ensuring adherence to AZ project/programme delivery standards.

• 7+ years of proven relevant experience as an IT Project/Programme

• Technical or Business Degree or proven relevant experience

• Manage and coordinate interdependencies for projects/programmes

• Manage relationships with senior business stakeholders to ensure the effective capturing of business requirements and commitment to project/programme objectives. Responsible for stakeholder meetings, communication of status, issues, risks in strong partnership with Business Relationship Manager.

• Own delivery of the user benefits for projects/programmes, working closely with business stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure expectations are met.

• Build a cohesive project/programme team and provide the necessary leadership to maximize the team’s success.

• Ensure expected benefits realization is consistent with project deliverables and clearly understood by stakeholders and project team.

• Drive effective risks & issues management, ensuring processes are in place and effectively used. Ensure problems resolved and escalate as appropriate.

• Oversee, drive…