Director, Digital Health Implementation, Digital

Digital Health R&D’s ambition is to transform Clinical Development and Healthcare Delivery, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most. Digital Health R&D is reimagining how we work to position AstraZeneca as an industry leader, making the development & delivery of new medicines easier. We’re doing this by harnessing the latest digital innovations working with patients, clinicians and our teams to design and build the technology and working practices at scale.

We are accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we deliver the best in innovative technology capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.

The Digital Patient Health & Innovation function is part of Digital Health R&D and works across 4 key areas by defining our digital health strategies, developing and deploying novel endpoints as well as digital patient solutions to support our full R&D clinical development and commercial drug portfolios in partnership with R&D and IT teams. Our mission is to:

- Transform clinical development, through development of patient and site centric digital solutions that improve access to clinical trials for all patients, whilst delivering faster and more efficiently for both site and sponsor
- Improve outcomes for our patients and trials through remote data collection and patient support, providing enriched data sets to support regulatory submissions and differentiated labelling
- Partner with the healthcare industry to determine how digital technologies can improve diagnosis, access to treatments and outcomes for patients with CKD, Heart Failure and COPD, including remote diagnosis tools and multi-modal healthcare data and AI approaches
- Optimise real world medication use by patients and deliver digital interventions to improve clinical outcomes with our medicines

**Main duties and responsibilities**:
The holder of this role will collaborate and partner within an extended team structure across CPTs, Digital Health Clin Ops and PCS to oversee the implementation of digital patient solutions. This role supports the execution of clinical trials and digital therapeutics crafted to augment the efficacy of AZ pharmaceutical products. The role holder will also supply to defining processes and ways of working for now and the future.

**Your key accountabilities will be**:
Delivery of Digital Health Strategies
- Support the development of the Digital Health strategy by using operational expertise across a program(s) or studies as assigned.
- Accountable for the Operational implementation of the digital strategies approved by GPT within the agreed scope and project budget
- Be responsible for the implementation of Digital Health strategy to anticipate project requirements and mitigate risks to project delivery
- Ensure Implementation Lead understands the project strategy, project priorities and specific project challenges
- Support staff/team to achieve project milestones and study deliverables
- Work across departments to support the delivery of projects and organizational improvements
- Act as first point of issue escalation for implementation issues
- Ensure Inspection Readiness of digital patient solutions delivered to each study
- Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity and issues management at strategic and operational levels, ensure appropriate reporting according to GCP and AZ processes
- Develop and manage relationships with internal and external technology and service providers to enable innovation approaches and endpoints to be included in Digital Strategies.
- Help build a learning organisation: ensure that any learning associated with the programs is shared within the Digital Patient Health & Innovation Organisation

**Function Leadership**
- Lead and/or co-lead major initiative(s)
- Contribute to streamline processes for drug/non-drug projects or departmental activities
- Promote and encourage innovation and creativity
- Work with Leadership team to achieve accurate resource forecasting and develop solutions to efficiently and flexibly resource studies
- Ensure quality and compliance to External Regulations and AZ Standards
- Work across the Hubs to develop global efficient ways-of-working
- Provide expert input into functional and cross-functional global processes

**Essential Requirements**:

- Bachelors Hons Degree in scientific field
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in R&D and strong knowledge of Drug Development processes
- Well-developed Project management skills, including managing vendors, budgets, timelines and risks
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partners
- Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and holds self and others accountable
- Senior Stakeholder management skill with together with proven negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal leadership skills
- Effective problem and conf