Innovative Patient Recruitment Solutions Director

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

The Digital Health R&D Recruitment team enables better patient and healthcare professional experiences by delivering customer centric digital solutions for clinical trials and real-world healthcare. The focus of this role is to work with Therapy Area (TA) leaders in the oncology and haematology areas to understand patient recruitment needs and develop appropriate solutions. The holder of this role will partner with a team of Implementation Leads to configure Innovative Recruitment solutions and services for specific programme and study needs. They will also work closely with AZ clinical development, operational and IT functions to ensure broader business needs and constraints are met.

The role holder will also work as a member of the R&D Digital Health Innovative Recruitment team to ensure digital strategies are aligned across therapy areas and define enterprise level investments and external partnerships.

**What you will do**:

- Work closely with Therapy Area and Clinical Operations Leaders to develop a Digital Recruitment Strategy. This will include channels such as patient engagement, data platforms and patient facing apps. The strategy will incorporate the broad needs of the therapy area, more specific needs of individual Global Product Teams and detailed needs of individual studies.
- Find opportunities to pilot new vendors and technologies with our Oncology studies
- Deliver the operational implementation plan for the TA Digital Recruitment Strategy, working closely with Digital Health Implementation leads to configure specific platform needs. Develop leading and lagging performance measures to assess and communicate clearly and accurately progress against plan.
- Be an active member of the R&D Digital Health Innovative Recruitment team developing an industry leading R&D Digital organization
- Ensure effective and transparent risk, opportunity and issues management at strategic, tactical and operational levels
- Deliver governance approved business cases within tolerance, on time, cost and quality working with functional management as required to resolve issues.
- Grow and maintain internal and external relationships, connecting the needs of key customers including TA, patients, health care providers and technology partners

**Essential Requirements**:

- A minimum of 7 years of experience
- Relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry
- A proven understanding of the drug development processes and the impact technology can have on these processes
- Experience in Digital Health with an understanding of healthcare
- Ability to lead and influence strategically and persuade thoughtfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationships
- Ability to challenge the status quo, take ownership and holds self and others accountable
- Experience leading a development team and working in a global environment
- Passion for Patients and Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making

**Why AstraZeneca?**

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering ground-breaking methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

**So, what’s next**

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

**Where can I find out more?