Director Study Operations

hace 2 semanas


Barcelona, España AstraZeneca A tiempo completo

**Location: Barcelona**

Join us as a Director of Study Operations in our Biopharmaceuticals R&D department. In this role, you will be responsible for leading, developing, supporting, and providing direction to Study Management personnel to enable the delivery of drug projects and non-drug projects. You will be accountable for resourcing Study Management members on study teams to support the delivery of clinical programs. This role is an opportunity to embed consistent ways of working across locations and build Study Management capabilities.

**Typical Accountabilities**:
1- Line management of Study Management Late staff
- Recruit, Retain & Develop personnel
- Demonstrate AZ values
- Provide skills and capability training to personnel to support their development
- Ensure personnel have been trained and work within compliance of ethics, company policies and standard procedures
- Role model and embed a performance driven culture and coach staff for optimum performance
- Develop and cultivate capabilities of our present and future AZ leaders
- Handle performance including feedback and rewards
- Provide expertise and direction to support direct reports with proactive problem/risk identification, solution building and issue resolution to facilitate achievement of objectives on time and to appropriate quality
- Timely assignment of capable Study Management resources to meet the clinical study team demands, in collaboration with other members of Study Management Leadership team, and the Capacity Management Team

2- Study Management
- Participate in setting, and responsible for implementing, the vision & strategy for the Study Management, aligned with BioPharmaceuticals ClinicalVision & Strategy
- Contribute to business strategy and streamline processes for drug/non-drug projects or departmental activities
- Lead and support change by encouraging diversity of solutions and implementing process changes consistently across Study Management
- Act as a change Agent, with local and global impact, to ensure adoption of global initiatives
- Promote and encourage innovation and creativity
- Work within Study Management to achieve accurate resource forecasting and develop solutions to efficiently and flexibly resource study teams
- Promote and encourage communication within and across Study Management and BioPharmaceuticals Clinical
- Ensure quality and compliance to External Regulations and AZ Standards
- Work across the locations to develop global efficient ways-of-working
- Provide guide into functional and cross-functional global processes
- Foster the sharing of study delivery knowledge, information, and best practice

**Essential requirements**:

- 10 or more years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- Comprehensive experience of clinical and Drug Development process within a pharmaceutical or clinical background
- Proven leadership and ability to promote motivation and empower others in order to accomplish individual, team and organizational objectives
- Thorough knowledge of Study Management processes in both local regulation and global environment
- An understanding of the therapeutic areas related to AstraZeneca’s products
- Strong leadership, problem solving, stakeholder management and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to lead change with a positive approach to the challenges of change for self, team, and the business. Sees change as an opportunity to improve performance and make valuable contributions to the business
- Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, performance targets and project initiatives in a global and regional environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal skills

**Desirable requirements**:

- Advanced degree in a scientific discipline
- Line management experience
- Expert reputation within the business and industry
- Extensive knowledge of the latest technical information
- Ability to look for and champion more efficient and effective methods/processes of delivering quality clinical trials with reduced budget and in less time.

At AstraZeneca, we follow the science to explore and innovate. We are working towards treating, preventing, modifying and even curing some of the world's most complex diseases. Here we have the potential to grow our pipeline and positively impact the lives of billions of patients around the world. We are committed to making a difference. We have built our business around our passion for science. Now we are fusing data and technology with the latest scientific innovations to achieve the next wave of breakthroughs.

Are you ready to embrace new and varied opportunities to develop and learn? Join us today



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